Book Review 2025.01: Karma, A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny, Paperback, 236 pages, 2021 -January 18, 2025
This is my first book review for the year 2025, a year in which I have resolved to consciously internalize at least one or two ideas from each of the book that I read. Starting the year reading simultaneously four books, I am quite surprised to complete this book first, despite picking it up the last. A possible reason for it could be my familiarity with the subject, while another reason could be its lucid writing style making it an easy read despite its depth and insights.
As Sadhguru thoughtfully points out, it is a users’ guide, i.e. a self-help book, at the same time a manufacturer’s manual, providing a conceptual diagram of the karma concept with the required details to understand its multiple facets and implications, and concludes with FAQs at the end answering typical questions that arise in a sceptics’ mind.
Written lucidly in simple language, the reader will find it easy to complete once they start reading and find many points on which their mind will linger and reflect hopefully making them richer for that experience.
I found these ten points strike a chord as I reflect and hopefully will make them a part of my daily life:
- Karma is at all three levels -body, mind and energy.
- In addition to personal karma, there is collective karma.
- Humans are psychomatic organisms, what they think impacts their body.
- Consciousness is not a matter of behaviour; it is the nature of existence.
- Pain is different from suffering. Pain is physical and unavoidable; while suffering is psychological can be avoided.
- Life is about seeing what is there, not looking for what you want to see.
- Advantage and disadvantage arise only in comparison. Don’t compare.
- See your life as self-created. Start consciously creating your life today.
- I am responsible for how others behave with me.
- Turn from reader to seeker.
I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in spirituality, especially those interested in Sanatana dharma and believe they have a role in shaping their own and their society’s future.
Happy Reading and wishing you all to move from being readers to practioner.
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