Conversation With A Yogi - An intimate trip with your soul!

We look forward to train journeys which make us experience the scenery spanning across the length and breadth of India where we get to sit and contemplate while the scenes whizzes by.

Imagine having an erudite Yogi as a co-passenger who not only makes the journey a memorable one but also changes the outlook of life.

The author, Suman Mukherjee had one such idyllic experience during his journey to Kanyakumari where he found himself sharing the coach with Swami Shivananda, a warm person who is tall in both outlook of life and physical attribute.

The author and the Yogi fell into effortless conversation where they spoke in length about importance of understanding oneself before venturing into challenging tasks, the importance of having the timing correct, and how spiritual course of actions will never lead anyone astray.

By the end of the journey our author became a richer person in terms of wisdom and inner fulfillment as the Yogi was kind enough to answer all the questions that plagues a human mind.

VERDICT
Pros:
1) The author has displayed marvelous intelligence by creating a self-help book through the prism of fictional storytelling. This is not your usual book which will preach you on various aspects of life. The author has presented a seamless conversation by asking tough questions to which the Yogi Shivananda has satirical and intellectual repartees. The easy camaraderie was very evident throughout the plot.

2) I found the tonality and quality of the narration to be incredible given that the plot flowed effortlessly from one station to another giving us a glimpse of various places as well as the thought-process of two sharp individuals.

3) The author touched upon some of the million-dollar topics like ‘Can Money Buy Happiness?’, awareness of our destination, the hormonal pull of love, to name a few which kept the premise very interesting throughout.

As a reader, I have read the works of Suman Mukherjee and as expected this book did not disappoint me as my expectations sky-rocketed after I read the Lankan Link and The N.G Code offered by this author.