You’ve probably heard sayings like “books are man’s best friend,” “intelligent men have nothing but a library and a collection of good books,” and similar expressions. However, if you dig a little further, you’ll discover that books have rendered more persons foolish and insane than clever. Real books are quite uncommon! Like men, real good books are the only true companions.
However, all of them are unfinished statements, dear ones. The world of today is different. Nothing but business exists in books.
No famous author who published novels, including Lal Bahadur Shastri or Abraham Lincoln, ever purchased a library or had an abundance of such influences.
You see, there are a lot of imitators in today’s books, media, and other sources. They lack uniqueness! Previous writers had attained self-realization, so anything they wrote became established law. But today’s writers lack originality, are mostly inspired by the outside world, and their writing often lacks self-awareness. So, the readers experience physical, mental, emotional, and social suffering.
If you achieve self-realization, you can use these resources to lay a solid foundation and meet self-realized souls more effectively.
Therefore, avoid making impulsive purchases or ones based solely on appealing title.
Books are now freely accessible. Online books worth millions are available for free. However, expensive costs seldom matter; knowledge does, and true knowledge is seldom shared. Genuine procedures and instructions are few; the others are simply variations on the original!
Many a times it’s not how much you read but contemplate. It’s not about reading more books but getting into the depth of one single thought that holds the key to the whole book. The dots are re-connected via a single link called pattern or DNA of the book.
You can understand more by understanding the writer and much more by knowing the true self. That is why the knower of truth / self is said to be most respected and wise one on the planet.
Yes, prejudices and selfish nature do impact writing and its direction. That is why a writer must be selfless, spiritually enlightened being who can really write with the divine guidance alone just like Ganesh ji, Rishi Valmiki…
A mindful reader is rare.
Of the millions books that I read,
You are the best one – O divine!!
There is no greater book than man’s own soul. Rare is a man who can read it.
I don’t like reading stories of fantasies and hollow thoughts full of lofty words but the one that is born out of self realisation – the direct perception of soul….
Read so that you can look at the world sitting anywhere / in closed room you can visit the whole world through a good book…..
So that you can look a the possibilities and find answers to inner quests….
So that you can avoid the errors of past and find new and better ways out of the quests called life and the behavioural aspects of it…
Reading is not enough. For many forget the lessons. And repetition of same errors of past remain continued….
“Dive Deep Within the Self” 