This book is first and foremost a self-help book. It is almost incidental but clearly also a book on becoming spiritual.
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This book is about a devotee businessman, Maha Sinnathamby, a long-time devotee who used the precepts of Swami Vivekananda to get ahead in both the worldly sense, and the spiritual sense. He had to endure many trials, often close to bankruptcy as he pursued his dream. In the process, he became Australia's 49th richest person, yet retains his spiritual view of life.
Here's an inspiring story for devotees who need to make money and work in the world, but don't want to be swallowed up by worldliness in the process.
Learn Maha's 10 principles for success that inspired him to build a city, and see how they can be adopted by you. Special price for Vedanta Catalog customers.
A highly motivational book
I generally read from cover to cover. So I noticed first quite a few negative statements, under the Disclaimer. The statements or warnings therein appeared to me quite sacrilegious to the very person about whom the book is! The chapters are well organised, and within each chapter the sections are perfectly streamlined. And, the book is a biography about a man whose story is from rags to riches. So, why all these hullabaloo? No one book can guide or misguide a person. Every book aims to be a good pointer to what and how one can perform, given certain circumstance. That way this book is a good guide. It tells what the hero of the book faced in different stages of his personal and professional life, and how he tried to solve them with utmost honesty and integrity, while at the same time trying to reach his goal. Every chapter first talks about incidents in his life, sums up his responses as actions in principle, lays out a suggested plan of action, and gives relevant quotes by famous personalities who had faced similar situations. That the main guidance to the hero emanated from the spiritual writings of an Indian spiritual leader of international fame, even when India was under British rule, speaks volumes of the soundness of Indian cultural values.
A highly motivational book
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Highly self-motivational book
I generally read from cover to cover. So I noticed first quite a few negative statements, under the Disclaimer. The statements or warnings therein appeared to me quite sacrilegious to the very person about whom the book is! The chapters are well organised, and within each chapter the sections are perfectly streamlined. And, the book is a biography about a man whose story is from rags to riches. So, why all these hullabaloo? No one book can guide or misguide a person. Every book aims to be a good pointer to what and how one can perform, given certain circumstance. That way this book is a good guide. It tells what the hero of the book faced in different stages of his personal and professional life, and how he tried to solve them with utmost honesty and integrity, while at the same time trying to reach his goal. Every chapter first talks about incidents in his life, sums up his responses as actions in principle, lays out a suggested plan of action, and gives relevant quotes by famous personalities who had faced similar situations. That the main guidance to the hero emanated from the spiritual writings of an Indian spiritual leader of international fame, even when India was under British rule, speaks volumes of the soundness of Indian cultural values.