“He was breaking into pieces, falling, fluid, boundaryless, merging into Nani Maa, just one giant heart that felt her fear, her sadness, her goodness, her pride, her love, like his own.” CompassionYoga Book:The Yoga of Max's Discontent Source: The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.” WritingWantedSpiritualNovelJourneyPagesYogaTransformationHardestCracksEntertainingAdventurousDiscontentMaxSpiritual TransformationPages Turning Author:Karan Bajaj
“A lot of the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.” ThinkingKindBookStoriesChoicesForceViewsMinesPerspectiveApproachYogaKarmaConclusionIndianRebirthSkepticalMomentumDiscontentMaxLiberatedWesternersNovices Author:Karan Bajaj
“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.” ThinkingNightPracticeMorningMeditationWifeMonthsCircumstancesSixYogaEuropeIndiaDefinitionsMy WifeTraditionalOnenessSuperficialSix MonthsMeditation And YogaSabbatical Author:Karan Bajaj
“In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.” IdeasWholePracticeMeditationLike YouEgoYogaEssenceOppositesWestEastProductiveMore MoneyEarningDissolvingMeditation And Yoga Author:Karan Bajaj
“When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.” KindSaidSpiritualLosesPracticeYogaWeightProductiveLose Weight Author:Karan Bajaj
“Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation - I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story.” KnowsBelieveWellsBookStoriesThreeI BelieveSourceMetsDegreesYogaSeparationDiscontentMaxTalk To MeYogi Author:Karan Bajaj
“In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.” WorldFirstsBeautifulLife IsTermGrowingJourneyOffersYogaWingsLifetimeFlyingFlightMultipleEaglesLife Is LikeAnalogiesCompletionLife JourneyYoga Sutra Author:Karan Bajaj
“In the year that I take off, I don't have any goals. I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga and meditation or just living in a completely random place like Mongolia or Portugal or Bhutan. Then when I come back, I am much more intuitive, creative, right-brained. That kind of system has been working very well for me.” YearsWellsKindHas BeensGoalCreativeMeditationYogaSurrenderIntuitivePortugalMongoliaBhutan Author:Karan Bajaj
