Books

Books and Books

Books have become my greatest blessings these days. I came to office for night duty and on my table I find a tiny, but beautifully printed book called 'Heart of a Buddha.' An internee at The Hindu, Tejas Ewing has left it for me with a not saying, 'Thought you might like this."
Yes indeed I do. I am delighted to see any book that takes me back to my original state of meditation and of late, I have been reading quite a lot of them. I just finished for the second time, Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev's 'Encounter with the Enlightened,' and now I am reading the fourth out of seven volumes of 'In the Woods of God-Realisation,' by Swami Rama Thirtha.
He was a professor of Mathematics and Physics. With a frail, yet wiry and energetic frame, he toured the whole world, even before Swami Vivekananda to talk to people on Vedanta. He died mysteriously, washed away by the Ganga when he was barely 33.
I did not know of this author. When I told Swami Akshara (my Guru) that I was reading Swami Rama's Wandering with the Himalayan Masters, he told me to read Swami Rama Thirtha.
The more I read, the more I see that my speed of reading and understanding of what I read increases.
Just like any other activity, reading for me is Meditation.
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