Book: “Life’s amazing secrets”
Author: Gaur Gopal Das
Publishing year: 2018
Review: Self-discovery is a miracle. Surely, the author must have felt one while making his debut as an author in the respective book. What really intrigued me to give a shot to this book were 2 different factors. First, being the title, well, who doesn’t likes secrets. Second, being the fact that the insights are coming from an electrical engineer turned monk.
The author weaves a brief testimonial which runs through the entire length of this book which navigates through the four different yet important wheels of vehicular life. The wheels namely are spiritual practice, association, character and service or simply put personal life, relationships, work life and social contribution.
He has cleverly use timings to add humorous flavors and make learning even more subtle. At the same time, exemplary use of simplicity makes it easy to read and deduce insights from.
A usual response to this book would otherwise have meant a disgusted expression or awkwardness by listeners. Who follows a monk these days? How would his teachings even be implementable in real corporate world? Well, seems like minimalistic way of life isn’t even important for a spiritual life. We don’t need to don saffron at all. We don’t need to sacrifice the luxuries and desires at all. What we need now is to understand basics to be authentic and logical, in our social conduct and otherwise. My valuable takeaways from the book will definitely be all those myths that were unveiled and normalized into real-time realities during the course.
Today, in this busy life it’s very obvious to get entangled and confused between concrete aspects of life and let the emotions and stress flow to and fro. The book will certainly be a guiding light to finding balance in life i.e., in writer’s words between all the four wheels of life.
