Me and my books

I love to read books by the writer who have read hundreds of books to write that one book or by the writer who has interacted with thousands of people before writing any book. I am so lazy, but by being choosy like this and reading only selected books saves my times.

But you know what is so interesting, I know nothing about how many thousands of people Jawahar Nehru had interacted with before he wrote that letters to Indira Gandhi, when she was only 10 years old. That book is simply wonderful to train young children to be the leader of a nation ! And then there are some classic children books which are so good for children, only bad news is that I was not lucky to get a chance to read it when I was growing up.

After reading think and grow rich, by Napoleon Hill twice with my complain that never seem to be ending, of the font being too small to focus which gave me headache as I tried to grasped the deep meaning of the book. I liked the book think and grow rich, because the writer had spent twenty five years to do the research for this book on more 25,000 men and women that too back in 1900.

Now, I am back reading again The Fourth Dimension by Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho. This Korean pastor is very famous in South Korea for having a church, which is one of the biggest in the world, that has the capacity to seat 10,000 people at a time. Besides it has 50,000 regular members in his church. Reading the fourth Dimension is more easy to understand than the complexity of think and grow rich. After reading this book I have become a huge fan of Dr Choo even though I am not a christian by religion.

The fourth Dimension is more convincing and easy to understand with simple examples, than the think and grow rich which only talks about successful people. But, you know what I find more interesting in this two books ? How come a very successful religious leader practice the same ‘mind game’, as of a hard core capitalist or a successful leader ? In fact, Think and grow rich talk about more of making leaders, leaders of every field.

There is so much similarities in this two books, yet one talks about religion and another how to make money for prosperous life ! So, this two vast different area practicing in the same kind of mind game, to get what one wants is what I love reading about. I hope to cultivate two absolutely different sides of life inside me once I absorb both books meaning.

It seems that I have the habit of reading two contradicting subject of book and finding the core similarity in it. Thought, faith, desire, persistence, single minded determination, self discipline, power of spoken words, power of subconscious mind, sixth sense and how all this impact in one's lifetime achievement to get what one want and how fear, greed, guilt, inferiority complex pulls one down in life and how to escape from those flaws are the main thing these books talk about. Yes, all in a whole different line.

Earlier than this I was so hooked on reading Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki. This is the first hand testimony of how ones own thought shapes one’s whole life and why one needs to remain persistent and positive and see big picture, despite situation not being favourable at the moment, to achieve the desired in life. The writer had told the real story of his two dads which he grew up watching very closely, which went exactly as per their thought. Then again, after some months I got a chance to read Daring to live on the Edge by  Loren Cunningham. I am deeply inspired by both of this book.

Faith is the common word in this two books, which strikes out obviously, but, I had failed to understand it until, I read think and grow rich. If Cunningham, the founder of YWAM has total faith in God to build his missionary work known around the world within short span of life, then the faith this rich dad had in his thought, plan and long term vision is what shaped his life despite his lack of education. On the other hand Robert Kiyosaki’s own father being so educated with Ph.D degree back in 1950 time, holding high rank job in Government, yet how his own thought changed the whole course of life; which caused him to die with bills to be paid while the least educated one build an empire to handover to his children.

See, I told you I am so lazy and choosy so I get books accordingly also. Reading the book What is in Ved by Swami & Dr. Prapannacharya is the best book I have ever read in Nepali. Good for me, he had gone through hundreds of books which I would have never ever read otherwise, buts that's what genius do, give their best when they do their work. Diamond SJB Rana's Seto Bagh is the book which is my favorite in Nepali. My first affair with book started with this book when I was only thirteen years old. He took 25 years to write this book ? As a writer I know how it pains to keep one topic in head even for couple of weeks and he waited 25 years. Then why one even wonder, that this is his masterpiece and no other book of his is as good as this one. And recently I read China Harayeko Manche by Hari Bansha Acharya. I bet he being a famous comedian who had done hundreds of stage shows not only here but in abroad too had interacted with tens of thousands people before he wrote that one book.

But in general I avoid reading books written by Nepali, because they only love to sale tears, fears, problems, depression, frustration, defeat and hopelessness.  

When I was around sixteen, I had committed myself not to read such book after reading hundreds of cheap novels at that tender age and spoiling my ‘thinking pattern’.  It was then I had to make a decision for me that, I will not feed such negativity or crap stuff in my brain. I have learned then that I can make the decision what to feed in my brain and what  not for my own good.

I guess I have fully grown then, at least in my own area of my life !