Description
Thank You India is an ode to India and its wisdom. Stumbling into India on an accidental layover in 1980, Maria Wirth got drawn into a seeker’s journey, searching for truth and encountering the many remarkable men and women, gurus and teachers, who would act as guides for her decades in India. From Sai Baba to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, from Anandamayi Ma to Amma, she records her close personal encounters and experiences.
The journey will take us to secluded and unknown yogis in the Himalayas to the famous celebrity gurus, to colourful festivals and ascetic caves. But her real journey is the inner voyage to Yoga or union, a union with the Self. As we travel with and through her, we get to reflect on love and death, rebirth and liberation, the necessity and the limitations of the guru, and through it our own. Finding both inspiration and disillusionment, she returns again to her own Self and to the wisdom of India, a treasure for all of humanity.
prabodh – :
Maria Wirth is both an amazing person and this book is really good. Maria Wirth is a European, a german, who spend almost 30 years in India and met so many gurus. Her trials and realizations on the way are described in her simple straightforward style of writing. The book is written as a collection of incidents each chapter being unique but connected as a garland of flowers in this book.
You feel pained as she goes from guru to guru in search of the right guru. The many learnings and the disappointments in the way.
Her greatest value addition is the way she counters against the unnecessary criticism against India, being both an outsider from Europe and her vast connect with India. She provides a very insightful commentary that demolishes much of the negative criticism against Indian spirituality.
prabodh – :
Nice book, easy to read. Very interesting – can read on a journey.