Book name : Karmic city- The city of lord Brahma
Author name : Hema Myer Sood
Publisher : Invincible Publishers
Book pages : 222
Format : Paperback
Description : As per goodreads
The name ‘Karmic City’ is used in the same sense that Walt Whitman calls himself a “Kosmos”. In fact each of us has three Cities within us – that of Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. This book uses the genre of fiction to acquaint us with the gist of ancient Indian wisdom. The reader is taken step by step in easy stages so that as the story unfolds, answers come forth to the most profound questions about life, death and re-birth.
A group of people with marked human foibles and assorted emotional baggage meet and thereafter agree to meet frequently on finding that they have something to gain by it. They are at different levels of consciousness, but one of them is a highly evolved seeker of the spiritual life. He is referred to simply as the “Soul”. All the others have names emphasizing their individuality. Only the “Soul” has so gained in spirituality that he has realized that he is one with the rest of creation. He is clairvoyant and the others accept him as a sort of guru. Yet he is also a seeker and proclaims that he is not a guru. The first and subsequent meetings with him alter the lives of all the other characters.
This book has the potential to shape the lives of the readers into better human beings and be unruffled by the travails of life. It happens in easy stages and one can start at a convenient level, suitable to one’s own ability to understand. It is reminiscent of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and is bound to be just as useful in today’s age as that great work was for a long time.
Book review : This is the 1st book in a trilogy. The title of the book is very different than the story. First I thought that it will be a mythology book(because of the name Brahma in the title) but it is a spiritual book. If you want to get an insight about our physical body, astral body, astral world, death and re birth and many more such topics than definitely do not miss out on this book.
The author has a lot of knowledge and she has tried to explain it in a very different form I.e. not making it completely a non fiction book, if it would have been a non fiction book than my interest would have lessen I guess. The main character in this story is Soul which comes into the life of 4 people Vaidehi, Virat, Aditi and Karthik. All of them feel a different kind of aura when they meet Soul and than starts their journey about knowing their own existence.
The writing is simple but somewhere in between things were becoming a bit difficult for me to understand. I am a person who believes a lot in karma and here in this book the soul talks about our karma’s too. How meditation is required for each and soul to understand our existence. How our aura and soul are connected. There are poetries too in this book and those are really beautiful. We all tend to attract to physical beauty that is visible to us and neglect the inner beauty and it makes a lot of difference in the spiritual world.
Overall rating : 3.5 stars
Thanks to Vidhya for the review copy.
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