Reviewed--"The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" by Robin Sharma

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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