FROM KNOWING TO GLOWING: TRAVERSE THE UNKNOWN GLOW YOUR EXISTENCE
By
Kavita Saraff
About
the book
“From Knowing to
Glowing” is an inspiring exploration of the life’s ‘fight or flight’ response
that leads you to the path of the sublime Awakening- the authentic Greatness
within You – by journeying through the realms that true Knowledge possess. The
book seeks to Awaken the inner genius within You; Apply the genius in Your
Life; Enhance Your performance and productivity; Achieve eternal Glow and
abundance; Share Your Knowledge: spread the Glow. As You awaken up to Your
Power, You can do or be whatever gives You complete bliss and happiness. You
become the creator of Your destiny. The book is a Wake- up call to learn to
master your mind and harness your life. Once You turbo change yourself, share
Your Secret and multiply the Power."
My take
Based on the philosophy
that true knowledge is the system of thinking correctly, this self-help book
written by Kavita Saraff, is a slow, insightful and highly motivational book
that makes us introspect and analyse our thinking process.
The book is divided
into two parts. The first part, which contains seven chapters is about the
experiences in the author’s life, which made her what she is today, and the
process of which made her explore the harmony between her mind and body. The
life she led as a child, which was full of ups and downs, gave her life lessons
that she learnt the hard way. Reading the holy scripture ‘Bhagvad Geeta’ gave
her an insight into her own mind, and she began implementing the thoughts from
the scripture in her life.
As she introspected
her life with new eyes, she realized that she was a victim of her own mind – a
mind that did not let her go off the past, a mind that did not allow her to
move ahead, and a life that attributed whatever happened to her to somebody
else’s actions. Eventually she realized that the negative thoughts she
harboured were the roadblock into her own success.
The story of her
childhood also brings to life certain stigma’s and stereotypes we still face in
our Indian families, irrespective of how much progress we make. One amongst
them is being traumatised and victimised for being a fat child. I think most of
us will be able to relate to this experience of the author, where she describes
how she was bullied for being fat, and how she was given less food in the joint
family so that she would get slim. She also describes how the same led her to
crave more for food and binge eat, till she reached a whopping 105 kgs. Now how
she lost more that half this weight in a period of 5 months, by training her
mind and body, is certainly enlightening.
The remaining
chapters chronicle the author’s struggles when faced with painful death of
family members and the emptiness that stems from it, getting embroiled in a
malicious false legal case, and the way she grew to face these situations, and
the repercussions of the same.
The second half of
the book is the message from the author to the readers, and it goes into
details about how self-awareness and knowledge are key ingredients towards
developing the glow and the zest that is needed to live a peaceful and
fulfilling life. The writer has emphasized and explained in simple yet engaging
words how knowledge about universe, which itself is infinite, is linked to
everything.
The language of the
book is lucid, and though I never read self-help books, I was hooked to this
one. This is definitely one book that will make a difference.
I rate it 4.5 stars.
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