THE NUANCE SUMMARY

The Nuance, the book of versified questions, deals with the concept of human immortality and advocates for the immortality of each human being through its 3400 rhetorical questions. The verse is divided into 17 no. of cantos containing 1700 heroic couplets. Through these cantos, the verse navigates through the universe with the epistemological inspection of life on the earth, with human distinction, and develops the logic of human immortality reasoning that humans are a supreme form of science and not limited to the mundaneness and cycle of birth and death but a continuous evolution toward their ultimate immortal form, extraterrestrial existence and eternal permanence. 

The verse postulates that if life has been possible with death, life without death can also be possible and states that the body can be immortal through a scientific synergy between matter and energy. It further states that life is mortal because it lives on the mortals. The universe is an energy manifestation and the whole energy of the universe is her indestructible spirit. Life which is a transformation of this spirit through the body can be conserved indestructibly if energy comes directly from the universe, independent of mortals.

The verse begins with the vision that the universe is a living entity and the earth with life in it is a zygote of the universe and cannot be estranged to it. The verse compares the mortal biological life of the earth with the immortal cosmic life of the universe and finds the existence of a little secret between the two, what the poet paradoxically terms it as 'nuance', which holds the key of transformation from the biological mortality of the human life into the cosmic immortality. 

Humans are only species on this planet to have got an all-powerful creative brain and by their brain, they are capable of comprehending the limitlessness of the universe and giving infinite meanings to what they can sense. They have an intuitive faculty called sixth sense, with which they can feel metaphysical existence and give concrete meanings to the abstract and incomprehensible. By their brain, they have evolved from early to ancient to medieval to modern and have revolutionized each transit by their knowledge of science, technology, arts and architecture. And the fact of the recent scientific revolution in bionic life, AI, genetic science and other technological advancements strongly directs toward humans turning an immortal organism and becoming omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient.. 

The verse protagonizes the human brain and urges for the use of the brain to discover the key to the immortal life and is optimistic that some day the brain will make it possible by manipulating physical, chemical and biological mechanisms between matter and energy, enabling sapiens to escape from the ecological cycle of birth and death. The verse puts forward the scientific and technological advancements, along with evolutionary logic, in its resolute proposition on immortality. 

The verse frets that the human beings seem to have ended up with the meaning that life is mortal and death is ultimate. So they cannot receive the solemn message of immortality the Creation gives them. So, they are resigned to death and remain fixed to the ancient and unscientific ideas as the meaningful parts of life, only to remain complacent with death, yet uncanny of life within. The verse urges the human beings to break free from the cells of id and subconscious  which home the primeval mundane instincts and cause the body grow impotent, decay and die. 

The verse is critical of the communities and their mutually antagonizing cultural and customary exercises as well as of gods, religions, the vague concept of rebirth, soul, etc., which have made death our ultimate master. The verse preaches 'one humanity, one faith, one religion with science and scientific practices at core' and urges for a complete change in the living systems which promote the mortal life through conflicts, competitions, struggles, corruption, exploitation, etc. The verse appeals the human beings to rise to the superconscious state, the Supreme level of human consciousness, by virtue of the non-physical and psychic mechanisms, which will grow their body potent enough to transcend the mortal border and bring them the true sense of existence. 

The book concludes that human beings will find the secret of immortality once science gets them the secret of origins of life and the voyage of science which is deep into the research, on the calm unified sea of humanity, will arrive at the secret some day, only if the voyage is not disturbed by the storms of bigotry, wars, crimes, violences, vices and divides, adding that when we transform selfishness into selflessness at the individual level, the transformation of mortality into immortality and ephemeron into eternity is inevitable. For this, human brain must be free from the clutches of the regrssive mind that inhabits nescience and uneducation. The brain as the engine of humanity must be fuelled by the progressive mind to enable the engine to ferry us safe across the fatal sea. 

Why this title

The title of the book, The Nuance, connotes the meaning that there is a subtle scientific fact hidden in the mortal existence of life, which holds the crux of immortality. The paradoxical use of the word 'nuance' is inspired by the human confusion between life is everything and life is nothing, paired with the author's thought of impossibility of the earth with life within the universe without life and if it has at all been possible, then the universe must be a life form we cannot see. And if the human beings did discover the line between the visibility and the invisibility, immortality could be possible.