An ex-bank manager, yoga practitioner and author of many Tamil books, S.P. Chockalingam has tried to study many curious questions people would have asked about the mysterious environment that surrounds us all.
In the process of writing the book, The Life: Is It Mystical or Real & Painful or Magical? , Chockalingam has extensively reproduced pearls of wisdom of philosophers and eminent persons to explore this perplexing question: What is the purpose of life?
Through the hundred-odd pages of the book, he stresses that a harmonious interrelationship of religion, spirituality, health and karma is the pre-requisite for a happy and contented life.
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A simple and narrative form of writing, resorted to by the author, has broken the tedium of what would otherwise have been a string of quotes.
The book starts off by saying that life is a beautiful mystery and, at some point, everybody gets curious to know about her or his very existence. Mysteries invade every step of one’s life so much so that many times one feels compelled to question oneself on the reason behind all the mysteries. It attempts to answer some of these questions.
Why are the magical pathways of imagination, dreams, intention, attraction, present, beliefs, faith, prayer, yoga and meditation, humility, gratitude, compassion, love, service, simplicity, appreciation, spirituality ignored and not taken for life’s journey by people?
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And why do people lead their lives with misery, unhappiness, suffering, etc? These are the questions to which every generation is trying to find answers, the author concludes.