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Discover Your Destiny With The Monk Who Sold His
Ferrari by Robin Sharma; Jaico Books; Price: Rs.175;
220 pp.

Discover Your Destiny, written in a chatty and easy to
understand fashion, as a rich and rewarding fable starts
off with interesting drama and suspense, enter Dar
Sanderson, a 43-year-old highly successful entrepreneur who
has a nice home, and a steadily increasing income. But his
busy schedules and success doesn?t seem to echo at the home
front. His wife fed up with his odd timings and over-
involvement with business decides to walk out of his life
with his three children. Deeply depressed, Sanderson takes
to drinking, loses his fitness, health and finally attempts
suicide. Just as he is about pull the trigger he feels
dizzy and collapses on the floor. He is treated to the
vision of a bright light as he is writhing on the floor
sweating and experiencing fearful seizures and the
words ?Your life is a treasure and you are so much more
than you know? piece the deepest part of his being.

Initially wondering whether he was hallucinating Sanderson
slowly begins to believe that the voice was after all true
and right. Later a chance encounter with Julian Mantle ? a
hotshot lawyer turned monk who has learnt the secrets of
lasting success from sages of Sivana ? sets Sanderson upon
an exciting and educative six-month odyssey to discover his
authentic self and reclaim the life of his dreams. As he
trudges along the path to self-discovery, Sanderson learns
about the seven stages every person must walk if he/ she
wishes to reach the life of lasting happiness, authentic
joy, and constant personal and spiritual development.

The ten-chapter book comprises of a short introduction by
the author and two chapters which introduce the readers to
the main characters of the book ? Sanderson and Mantle ?
each of the remaining sections deals with one of the seven
stages of the journey towards self-realisation. Each stages
is explained elaborately using a simple, straight-forward
and chatty manner laced with a generous dose of quotable
quotes from several epics, religious books and world famous
personalities including Patanjali, Oscar Wilde and Ralph
Waldo Emerson. The seven stages of self-awakening which
forms the essence of Discover Your Destiny are: Living a
Lie; The Choicepoint, Awareness of Wonder and Possibility,
Instruction from Masters, Transformation and Rebirth, The
Trial and finally The Great Awakening of The Self.

Written by Robin Sharma, one of the world's premier
professional speakers and an authority on leadership, self-
discovery, and personal change, who has also authored six
other books, including the global blockbuster The Monk
Who Sold His Ferrari, which sold over 2 million copies
worldwide, Discover Your Destiny is indeed a highly
inspiring and persuasive volume which exhorts the reader to
make the right choices and take action to lead the life
which was originally destined for him. Sharma, a lawyer by
education is the currently CEO of Sharma Leadership
International (SLI), a globally revered learning services
organisation that helps employees and entrepreneurs realise
their highest potential in both personal and professional
areas. He as also shared speaking platforms with high-
profile individuals including former US president Bill
Clinton, Deepak Chopra, Richard Carlson and Dr. John Gray.

Discover Your Destiny will show you how to lead the life
you?ve always wished for. This book is a catalyst for
transformation from within ourselves, that persuades every
reader to stop leading a mundane life and start the journey
towards the promised life, while simultaneously showing a
potent pathway to self-awakening that will help us to live
the greatest life that we can ever achieve. It helps us
claim the happiness, prosperity and inner peace that every
one of us is entitled to when we were born,but forgot as
we grew up in this competitive world. Sharma has
successfully combined Eastern wisdom with Western
management principles in this deeply absorbing yet highly
practical guide. Simply put Discovery Your Destiny offers
every reader a simple blueprint for living a beautiful
life, full of happiness, prosperity and lasting inner peace.

In course of the various chapters of the book the author
tries to answer several questions that lurk in our minds
and prevent us from trying out new things mere out of fear
of failure or ridicule or for any other reason. Through
this book the reader can understand: ?How to trust in your
limitless potential?; ?How to avoid the crime of self-
betrayal?; ? How to realize the life of your dreams?; ?How
to transform fear into fortune?; ?How to discover your true
calling?; ?How to turn events that test you into
experiences that reward you?; ?How to find the love you
want? among others.

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