Resumo de The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is of the genera of self-help books. The only difference is that it is written in a story form. It tells you a way to reach life of self-realisation and live a peaceful and joyful life in the modern day hectic world. The book narrates the story of a successful attorney, Julian Mantle. At the peak of his hectic career, athe age of fifty three, he gets a cardiac arrest. This becomes a turning point in hislife. He heads off to India, and while wandering in the villages and towns there, he meets a yogi, named Krishnan, who himself a lawyer who left his career in serach of ultimate truth. He becomes Julian's mentor. He further dircts Julian to "Sivana" (meaning oasis of enlightenment). After days of trk in the Himalayan Mountains he reaches Sivana. Here he is enlightened and returns to America as a sage to teach the busy Americans.

The main ideas of the book can be summarised into following heads: achive mastery over one's mind, follow ones purpose in life passionately, practice detachment, live with discipline, respect one's time (since it reminds of shortness of life and one's eternal destiny), serve others unselfishly, and live in the present making the bst out of it. These, steps would lead a modern Man to achieve tension free eternal youthfulness filled with courage, balance, abundance andjoy. Author feels that thepresent day crisis is due tot he spiritual vacuum men and women face. The replace the spiritual with the temporal search for wealth, power etc. These can never reach them fulfilment and contentmentin life. But insted, these only only will lead them to heart attacks! The panacea for overcoming the crisis is returning to the spiritual wisdom of the ancient.

Author has something to say to the modern man and he has said it interestingly. By the teachings that author presents are not new, and has been told and re-told by religious sages of every religion of all ages. The author thinks, a westerner has to come to the east to learn in order to find self-realisation. One glaring thing that the book does not address is the question of divine. The path that author lay out can become another crazy search if it is not motivated and powered by the power from above. Self-realisation it self does not motivate. But then, the notion one has of the divine, supreme ideal, makes the man. The underlying notions of the path set out by the author is not restricted to the East alone. But one finds it as an amalgam of all the great traditons, be it Christianity, Islam or Judaism

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