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Sampada Uprety COMM 111 Nabin Tiwari 17th November, 2019 Book review on ‘Life’s Amazing Secrets’ “Life’s Amazing Secrets” is a self-help book written by Gaur Gopal Das. I came to know about Gaur Gopal Das when I came across one of his motivational youtube videos. As I was really intrigued by his thoughts, I started researching about him and came across this gem of a book. This 256 pages long book is not one of those books that will tell you how you can achieve your goals or make a lot of money. On the contrary, it tells you, money or no money, how you can be happy. “Life’s Amazing Secrets” is the integration of every one of our issues as well as their corresponding solutions. This book has been composed beautifully with easy to follow language and medium pace. Das has narrated incidents from his personal experience. The book begins with Gaur Gopal’s visit to an elite couple’s house. Harry, the husband offers to drop him to his ashram after lunch. While they were stuck in traffic, Harry confessed his circumstances to Gaur Gopal and that was when a series of thoughts with numerous short stories and incidents started. As they were travelling in a car, Das used the example of the car and divided his book into four sections just like four tyres of the car that are needed to maintain a proper balance of the car. He mentions that even if one tyre is punctured or not well-maintained it will affect the safe and smooth driving of the car. Similarly, if the four aspects of our life i.e. i) Personal Life ii) Relationship

iii) Worklife iv) Social Contributions are not balanced then we tend to face difficulties. With each section of the book, Harry’s doubts were resolved by Das by proper reasoning and spirituality. Every chapter starts with a beautiful quote by famous people and ends with a summary. He gives valuable insights and lots of examples to balance all four aspects of our life and live with purpose. The best part I discovered was the two worksheets given at the end of the book i.e. the forgiveness worksheet, which helps you to forgive the people and second is Ikigai, which is basically a Japanese word which signifies 'reason to live'. This book perfectly addresses so many issues we face practically, be it at work, relationship or society in general. The solutions provided in the book are applicable to each and every person regardless of age and gender. To sum up, the secret to a blissful life, as the author puts, lies in maintaining balance. Despite the fact that some portion of the book is very similar to his inspirational online videos, it shares a deep understanding to control the wheels of our life. The emphasis on purpose and forgiveness is equally fascinating. Last but not least small stories from texts like Gita, Mahabharata, and Ramayana were parts I loved a lot! So many lessons obtained from the book which I anticipate implementing in my everyday life....