Shiva Triology 1- The Immortals of Meluha

I have been fascinated about this book series by the praise I heard for this author and his work. After making right time to start with this book, also because of my pure interest in SPIRITUALITY, I haven't tried before reading any spiritual book but had followed the story of LORD SHIVA for the matter of fact of being Hindu by religion or otherwise the worship done in family but yes indeed, I had some interest in reading the book only for the matter of fact it being based on story of Lord Shiva and yet it offering something new and different was the another obvious reason to go for it!
Mind you! Taking the same story line and  trying to write it differently without deviating from it's real essence as well as fulfilling the essence on the main sculpture isn't totally an easy task which the author Amish had fulfilled to the greater extent if not completely.
Having known the story of Lord Shiva and reading something same in order to find something new was into itself a too high as a hope from deep inside of my tiny heart and yet the book had not disappointed me so much so that as soon as I finished with the first series I fetch the following one from the same series rather than taking a break and continuing with something else to refresh my mind.
The story, as already described is written based on the Modern lifestyle in the same spiritual sense, this is something that this man 'AMISH' did to break the ice. Well, to admit it or to confess, I have never been a person to love reading HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, WAR or TRAVEL type of books. And this book has almost all of these things and I held it high in my hands reading it over long late nights, wishing day not to end like this, getting scoldings from Parents for indulging too much into a book, hiding myself and pretending to be asleep sometimes to rescue from the taunts, I read the book that was very aptly descriptive neither too heavy nor too shallow. The imaginary descriptions awesomely transfuse to distill historic spiritual essence to transform the wholesomeness of actual momentary situations into the actuality of real world making them appear in front of your eyes as you read them. May it be the war, the wit, friendliness, faith or the dance of the Neelkanth it all transforms as real in the description without stretching it beyond reasons.
The story has newness yet wasn't vague. The historic heroes and other characters were very well defined, characterized, played into the plot that was not ditto to what any of us would have heard or seen as a story of Lord Shiva. Having seen the series of show Devon ke Dev Mahadev on Life OK channel I am well acquainted with the whole story. Yet Shiva and Sati of this new modern story are different yet similarly spiritual and soulful.
The part that touched me deeply-Ram rajya and the policies framed by Lord Rama. Having seen the caste system prevailing in INDIA since decades and surely going to go on for don't-know-how-long, what Amish wrote was such a perfect policy for the perfect empire like Meluhans'. I wished if the Karma of human being actually decided the fate of profession they would be in then many wouldn't have suffered in the past nor would have they been suffered this way in present and not in mere future. But well..  that's the PERFECT scenario... Still, it felt good to know the perfect scenario!
The Vikarma system-untouchable it's was and is indeed very strange one, the logic, the following of same in the society, it's difficult to curb it. Only Neelkanth could erase it but not from real India.
The fiction that Amish added, it's perfection make me feel whether the real GOD forgot to imbibe those principles in lives of humanity before their extinction for the real India still suffers from so much from it's vague beliefs that humanity is still in danger. Well, may be only God knows, whether he forgot or we forgot...
The death of Brihaspati was indeed shocking and sad. The friendship shown between Shiva and him was affectionately sweet and lovely. A friend anyone would want to have.
The faith of people of Meluhans' in the Neelkanth led normal man Shiva drive ahead and lead the humanity to free them from the EVIL. Shiva's past-the nightmare he get was the transformation of a child into man and yet the guilt remained forever which was also an essential for him to lead his destiny to save Meluhans'.
Sati, strong yet delicate, cultural yet revolting, loving yet opposing, supportive yet a thinker, daughter of King yet accepted the title of Vikarma. One of the wonderful character Amish has plot with the suspense of she being the Vikarma, her culture, her sacrifices, her dignity, her love, her support, everything about SATI was a learning for me as a woman, as an Indian woman.
Love of Shiva & Sati has always touched me deeply as a person who believes in soulmates. The attempt to sacrifice her life for Shiva by Sati and then Shiva's immense faith in saving Sati's life even though everyone gave up all hope was really touching phase.
The first part ends with the suspense whether the Nagas are the real evil if not the Chandravanshi?

P.S.: One thing I felt that could have been better is the cover of the book. Since Amish has depicted the importance of THE NEELKANTH so much in the book, the faith of people in people him by mere his name. I wish the cover pic would have been that of The Neelkanth than this one! (Just a thought being a complete reader whom title as well as cover too matters along with the story! ;-))
Well, I am not giving any sort of recommendations whether you should read this book or not but with the given summary of the same you felt like you can feed your brain with something from this one then go for it, for everyone has different taste and preferences in reading. You may sometimes experiment with your taste though, who knows you might like it? ;-)

Happy Reading! :-)

Crossword! :-*

In the mall, while roaming around suddenly I saw THE CROSSWORD! :O
I was attracted to it automatically like an iron to magnet. I went inside and soon went CRAZY! Oh My God, so many books and that too ORIGINAL. There were many my favourite books which I've already read in the past, then there were few which I wish to read and also found one that I'm currently reading. Looking at those books it made me feel what true reading is I've never actually experienced. True reading would be reading these books. I spent few hours there, looking with amusement at all sections. Also selected few books which I would buy sooner than anything else for myself I'll purchase.
Wow! My brothers literally pulled me out of the store, like you drag a child out from toys store. I really didn't felt like coming out...
Even while writing about it I can feel the pleasure that one can have while reading those amazing books. Neat, new, tidy, original, superb. Even with it's touch you fall in love with the book!

Wow....
I'm loving it! :-*

I wish to read almost all good books ever written in this world.
:-D

The Last Note- Amrit Sinha

The guy in the story proposes the girl with following lines on his knees, 'Rain being the witness,
As it pours down upon us,
I confess my love to thee,
Will you accept my love, and me?'

A note saying,
'Me the fire, you the rain,
How does it matter whether we lose or gain?
So stupid of me to imagine us together,
Your downpour turned me to ash forever.'

Last words before he left,

Oft have I heard the preachers say, 'Time and thee wait for none.'
This is false, quite untrue,
'Cause time and tide do wait for some.

Memories flash, moments of joy,
A glint of smile, a fateful cry;
Your heart very well knows the truth,
Love is one hell of a sinful fruit.

And yet this fruit I silently tasted,
Fought with the devils, then I rested.
An eventful journey life has been,
Dreams so pretty I've always seen.

A jolly fate I do possess,
Meeting you again was beyond my guess;
Thanks for the company through this mile,
Just never give up on that sweet smile.

Time to say goodbye, a warm farewell,
Enjoy your life, truly, without any fail;
Someday, somewhere, we will cross again,
Perhaps on a sunny day or a night when it will rain.

The teacher still preaches,
'Time and tide wait for none.'
Yet I couldn't agree to it anymore,
'Cause time and tide has indeed waited for one.

Yet again from one of stories from LOVE STORIES THAT TOUCHED MY HEART!

A pair of shoes-Manaswita Ghosh

Was I never yours to save?
I wonder as I lie in my grave,
Why did your eyes brim up with love,
Were they for me? The tears that you shed?
Or were they because I was gone now, so dead?
Why did your lips touch mine?
Was it because there was a love that you once felt?
Or was it because you thought we finally parted, a final touch that made all boundaries melt?
Why did you turn to me with that longing gaze?
Or was it because you knew this was the last time we met?
I thought I knew love, or did I know something that you just framed?
Was it my fault to draw you among the stars, and dream with them as they came and went?
Is that love finally gone, the one you framed?
I do not know, but it still remains, hiding somewhere underneath.
Were there no hidden promises after all?
Not a single fake tale to read to my soul?
Not a single touch that silences my screams,
No forged dreams to make me sleep?
I know it's over now, you're gone and so have I
Now that I have a forever to think of you, in my grave as I lie...

One of stories of LOVE STORIES THAT TOUCHED MY HEART had this poem that I loved very much!

Few quotes

It is better to stay silent and be thought wise than open your mouth and be proven foolish.

Time is heartless. When you want it to move slower, it flies and when you are waiting for something important, it crawls.

These are few quotes I found worth sharing while reading the book.

Next read...

Finally I've completed reading The Alchemist. Though I took unexpectedly more days than I could to complete reading 177pgs. But it was because I was involved into other things as well and read it in installments. For me understanding what I read is more important than counting no of books read for name sake.

I believe into loving and enjoying the journey than dreaming about the end and hurrying to reach it.

Next one that I've started with today is, Love Stories that touched my heart by Ravinder Singh.
Oops! I'm back with fiction and that too love Stories! :-D
I'm on pendulum sometimes I prefer non-fiction and sometimes fiction. May be I should keep combo of both. One fiction and another nonfiction! :-)

There are 24 short stories in this book that were selected through a national competition! :O
When did that happen?! :O
Better luck next time, for me! :-(
It's been edited by Ravinder Singh. In the editors note he has written about his journey as writer. It's inspiring. From writer to editor how he failed many times but still tried to accomplish his dreams and have very well succeeded as well.

As soon as I complete this book I'll come up with the review! Till then enjoy reading!

P. S.: Any good read suggestions are most welcome!

Think before you quit...

There is this short story in the alchemist.

There was a miner who had abandoned everything to in mining for emeralds. For 5 yrs he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for am emerald. The miner was about to give it all up, right at the point when, if he were to examine just one more stood-just one more- he would find his emerald. There was one stone that rolled up to the miners foot. The miner, with all the anger and frustration of his 5 fruitless yrs, picked up the stone and threw it aside. But he had thrown it with such force that it broke the stone it fell upon, and there, embedded in the broken stone, was the most beautiful emerald in the world.

My moral: Never quit, you may not know that had you swimmed for few more minutes you might have reached the shore than decide to sink after swimming for hours.

The alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Few sentences that I would like to share from this book.

Here it goes,

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They're not afraid to dream and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realise their destiny.
Mysterious force appears to be negative but actually it shows you how to realise your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet- whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the your soul. It's your mission on earth.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Everything in life have it's price.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I'm like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another never will discover his own.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happen twice will surely happen a third time.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know.

Indeed it is a nice read. I liked it more, for the main character in the book and I had one thing in common, we both love travelling. He wanted to see the world and I too aspire to see if not whole world but at least famous places. I love travelling and visiting different places knowing about them and meeting new people and knowing about them as well! :-)
Though as the story proceeded further I deviated from the main character. But everyone have different story!
I loved the storyline and more or less everything about the book. There is even love story involved. I guess life and it's learnings are incomplete without love in anyones life!
:-)

P. S.: Thanks to my friend Sara who thoughtfully bought this book and shared with me.
But Sara, I understood the story in once! :-P
May be because I always read books or watch movies or mostly do anything when I can concentrate properly so that the means of learning something from it is never lost and the purpose get served and not lead to waste of time. :-) It can also be because I'm use to reading such type of books!
Never mind I'm thankful to you for giving me such a nice book, I hope this much of buttering is enough to receive more good books in future! ;-)

Gratitude flushing over me!

Whenever I pick up any new novel and start reading it all I observe is how it starts, how the author tries to plot the story and how it is carried on smoothly and sometimes the turning rides do impress. But what kills me is the vocabulary they use! I literally can't explain the hostile feeling that emerges for not knowing the meaning of that new word that I read, forget about not using it before myself. Soon I look for my dictionary and fish for the word and feel thrilled for now knowing about it. Though my timid brain hardly could register it forever and for future use. Never mind, I shall read more and more times same things may be to get use to it. Envious I'm of all those great authors I've read but equally thankful to them for whatever I could learn from their writing. Sometimes I learn new ways of thinking, sometimes new ways of living, sometimes new ways of reading, sometimes new ways of writing, sometimes new words and sometimes new storyline! I feel blessed that I can read and that I read good books, that those authors could write good books.

My dream is to ever write my own book! Mind you, I've not even stepped on first stone on this path yet! This life of mine would be incomplete if I would ever die without writing even a single book! New desires emerging to give life new means and meanings. Whether these dreams will be fulfilled is matter of future but work of present. For now I've to learn many many things, for I don't just wanna write a book for a sake of doing so but to be a best seller as well and to fulfill desires of readers as I seek to learn something from the book I read so shall my book be a satisfaction to others who would read it.
I must start working on it or is it that I've already started working on it by reading so many books (I must start listing names for record! :-P ) and observing things around and by writing few blog posts I do practice writing! ;-)

May God help me like he helped others to accomplish their dreams.

Change of choices

As the change knocks my door, I welcome it by it's acknowledgment and accept it happily for it's the policy as an old tradition to human life. Past changes has made me today what I'm, and new changes in me, my life and my choices will hopefully make me for what I perceive to be in future! It could not be judged whether the change will be bad or good but we can be just hopeful for better future and reduce anxiety in present. As future is always uncertain no matter how much we try to plan but it'll be unpredictable so better live in best hopes. :-)

For time being I'm getting detached with fiction genre from novels, serials and movies and my heart seek for non fictional matter to read, see and know!
This sudden change is a surprise for me. I've never thought that I'll ever get bored of fiction genre but may be this is life and it's unpredictability! I've witnessed it and have accepted it happily.
But what will I do of all those new fiction books who are waiting in unread section? :O
May be in between non-fiction I'll go to them and read it, for matter of factly! :-|
Now I need to search good books of non-fiction genre!
May be GOOGLE can help me better...

Books are BFF!

In one of the film Katrina says, "Books are best friends as they don't demand anything nor does they expect anything from us!"
(I know the name of movie, it's in Ajab prem ki gazab kahani :-P)

After the tiring day I still wished to read and it was really A joyous moment. It taught me so many things and the day was of much more learning. As the book ends I'll tell about which book I read and the worthy things in it. That's really true statement. Books are friend whom we can always and at anytime go to and read. They never demand anything nor does they expect anything from us and yet they give so much of knowledge and experience.
I'm today thankful to God for making me an able person who can read and understand things and who have indulged a habit of reading. I wish to continue reading books like I continue to breath, may it last till my life!

Quest for NOTHING!

The book is as interesting as the title. But I liked the title very very much.
Right from the cover page the book is interesting till the last one! It is indeed more amazing with the descriptions of scenes and characters that you actually start living them as one! It's again a neat and clean one!
Amazing book, one more must read I would recommend anyone to read, for it's amazing storyline, the authors more amazing vocabulary. If you happen to be a person with very basic vocabulary like that of mine then please keep dictionary by your side, you'll surely need it right from the first para! Yes, take it from me! Very very good language used, that too throughout the book. Every page will get you addition to new word that you might have read for the first time, I did! Hence guiding you, it'll help you learn new words.
I'm indeed impressed by the book in all regards.
It's life of corporate both men and women. Just felt it was correct time to know about the world where in future we would be heading into and will surely face the circumstances the couple have in this book. But may be reading it can give us preparedness to have things at the back of our mind as to what or how could we handle the situations. Though life cannot be planned but you never know preparedness is always a better option to live a happy life. As life with experience could be easy but it's surely not necessary to learn from own experience but could be from others and again that other need not necessarily mean to be someone known person but could be a movie we watch or a book we read. So is it...

For those who have decided to read it please don't read the later part of this post as am gonna talk about those parts that involves the thrilling part that the story contains and if you'll get to know about it now and then later if you'll read the book you'll miss that thrill. Don't complaint afterwards that I crushed your excitement. Okay. But later on you can read this part to share your own experience as well.

Okay!

Good!

Here it goes...

The story is about the corporate life of couples that first fall in love with eachother and happily get married to eachother, yes the love marriage! But later on as they move ahead in their carrier they find themselves moving ahead in carrier but heading no where in their personal relationship. Their marriage seems next to ruined. They decide to give time to it. Meanwhile they keep concentrating in their work and they start working at different cities and only talk on phone.
But still the wife plays an amazing role ever since she came into his life but finally she succeed in helping her husband outta volcano circumstance by all her intelligence and a try to save her relationship, she finally manages to save her husbands carrier as well.
Wow! Great Indian Women always behind the success of their husband! And hence proves that behind every successful man there is a woman!
True said...

I've still tried to not spill the beans but could not control much but wanted to discuss these points that I have.

Happy Reading

Keep Reading.

Those small lil things in life and love!

This is title of the book that I've recently read. Its a novel. I'm amazed by the writing of the author Rahul Saini. With such minute details hehad managed to write this book. And have inspired me most with his power of imagination. The way this book is written is amazing, the fusion of past and present.
Again, its a love story.
A must read for those who like reading. I can't stop myself from appreciating the efforts put into to make it so simple yet very new and thrilling.
Funnely, even I would not have had so many girls in my life than the writer have mentioned in this book. It's full of girls, girls and only girls! There are very lil count of male characters. But that's the need of the book, validly.
Good job Rahul Saini. I'm very inspired with your writing. It has taught me a lot in terms of being a writer what all things should be considered to keep your reader interested into your write up.
Very lively book.

Only Love is Real -the story of Soulmates reunited

Recently came across this book on one bookstall. Could not resist from buying it.
Reading it. It's indeed great book on reincarnation & real love stories.
I can remember my musing regarding if the Soul mates thing really exists?
And may be this can be considered as an answer to my question.
The book is by Dr. Brian Weiss

His First book is, "Many Lives. Many Masters"
"Only Love is Real" is his second book
and Other one is "Same Soul Many Bodies"

Bought the second one first, but now I have Many Lives. Many Masters as well, will read after I finish this one.
Haven't yet found Same Soul Many Bodies. But will read that one as well.
I liked it, you can try, if you like reading LOVE STORIES.

You can relate the book with the show that once came on T. V. named, "Raaz Pichle Janam Ka" I believed in that and I'm believing in this book as well.

If you have any suggestions, then they are most welcome.

Happy Reading! :)

That's it

Finally, I've decided that I'll never ever give my books to anybody to read. They return it in such pathetic condition that, I want to kill them for this. Only because killing is a crime that those people are alive in this world. Huh! Enough of I've thought of sharing my stuffs. They don't know but for me, all my Books are my Babies, Course Books or Novels, I preserve them all like my life. And somebody spoiling them, I can't bear it anymore. I've so many times warned my friends to not to forward my books in to their friend circle, but no! they don't want to obey my instructions, then fine! I'll also decide finally with whom I have to share my stuffs and with whom I don't.