2099th BLOG POST
6th Book
of 2024
There are times
when you need a spiritual book to make you understand the basics of life to
balance and manage your emotions. As I was facing some issue due to certain unwanted
aspects happening in my professional life and I sensed that I am not able to
manage my mind, I thought of picking up a short book which is semi-spiritual
without going much into minute details. This made me chose the book named “Happytual”
written by Pawan Kumar Mishra. The book also comes with a tagline that says “The
non-pursuit of happiness”. It is published in around 120 pages by Rupa
Publications.
As the title of the
book suggests, the prime focus of the author while writing the book is to narrate
it to his readers about how to be happy in a spiritual context without doing
much about it but just analyzing yourself. Author’s intent is very evident
right from the first instance when he dives into the topic that he wants us to
understand the benefit of going within and finding peace somewhere there rather
than trying too many things to achieve it from external sources.
Author has chosen
the very same narration methodology of conversational tone where a younger
character is asking questions about life to an elder mentor and he is answering
and guiding the character with the insights that can change the course of their
life by just tweaking the way they look at things. Author has used very easy
language while writing the same which ensures that readers of any age group
shall be able to go through it easily. Author has blended the ancient wisdom
with the modern context by giving some new examples to explain the theories and
explaining the old concepts in a new tone.
The concept of
Fourth which is almost a reference to soul is nicely explained which makes it
easy to understand where do we need to hit within to fix things in our life. The
main USP of the book is the chapter named “The Lotus Flower” where author
discusses about 24 petals of the flower by naming each one of them on an area
that needs to be managed to lead a happy life. Later on, the way author comes
to the conclusion of how happiness shouldn’t be a pursuit helps us understand
how we can achieve it without actually chasing it.
Author also touches
upon yoga and meditation and teaches few deep breathing techniques which shall
turn out to be essential for beginners in this area who haven’t tried anything
before. Along with such insights, the way author has also tried taking through
the arc of each of the characters involved in this keeps you interested in the
book.
Talking about the
drawbacks or shortcomings, after reading almost 900 books, I must say that I
couldn’t find anything unique in the book. Definitely, author has tried to
speak the same thing in a new way but it doesn’t teach you anything new. This
shall be a fine book for beginners but if you have already gone through a
spiritual kind of a self-help book, this one might not sound new or unique to
you. Hence, I rate this book an average 3 stars out of 5.
Thanks!
WRITING BUDDHA
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