Title: The Secret
Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Author: Robin Sharma
Aah…my sweet writing space… I've missed you. It’s been long
I wrote about something. Well there are many reasons, but mainly didn't find something to write about. We all get sucked down by the whirlpool of problems
in our lives, so did I.
Well, during this period I came across a beautiful book
called “The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold his Ferrari” by Robin Sharma. This is supposed to be a sequel to widely
acclaimed “The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari”. I haven’t read the
latter and was skeptical in reading the former one also as I used to think
these are preachy kind of books.
But as it was lying on my table, I thought let’s give it a
chance. So I started reading it and was straight away thrown into the story of a man who has a conflicted life much
like each one of us. He is unsatisfied by both his personal and professional
life. He is struggling to make amends
and trying to collect the pieces of his life, which is falling apart.
Luckily, the monk who sold his Ferrari in first part turns
out to be his distant cousin. The monk calls the man and asks him to help him
collect some objects called “Talismans” from around the world from various people.
In spite of being reluctant, he is cajoled to carry out the journey by his
mother and the monk.
The rest of the book is the journey describing his thoughts
and experiences, the secret and magic behind the “Talismans” and very simple
and profound lessons he learns on his way.
The beauty of this book lies in the fact that it is very
concise and clear. Running for only about 150-160 pages, the book manages to
teach us very simple lessons in a very easy way. There are no deep metaphysical
analyses or any out of the world lessons. Just plain simple day to day
philosophies, which can help live an enriched life.
All in all a Very good book.
Excellence Meter—3.5 / 5 – Very Good Read.
Cheers...
Digvijay Anand :)
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