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“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.”

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Karan Bajaj, born in 1979, is of an unknown profession. His life story and contributions are not yet clear, and further information is needed. more

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“What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from the perspective of an Indian main character, I think I would have assumed a lot of knowledge and I would have resented the presence of the author.”

Ifs Thinking Character My Own Perspective Indian Liberated Protagonists Main Characters

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“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.”

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“What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.”

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“Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.”

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“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

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Author:Karan Bajaj

“The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.”

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“I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.”

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“I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.”

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“I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.”

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“I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life.”

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