As a Man Thinketh and Siddhartha

As a Man Thinketh’ is a self-help book by James Allen (24th November 1864 – 24th January 1912). When Allen was just 15 years, there happened a tragedy, his businessman father was robbed and murdered. Due to this, his family suffered huge financial crises. That compelled Allen to do some job so that he could support his family. Allen was highly inspired by the writings of Leo Tolstoy. After that, along with his wife and daughter, he shifted to Devon, England. There he led a simple life and he wrote for 9 years, resulted in 19 works. It was published in 1903. He was a British philosophical writer and poet, known for his inspirational and self-help books. He was one of the most popular writers on spirituality. ‘As a Man Thinketh’ is an essay and self-help classic book. ‘As a Man Thinketh’ is an essay and self-help classic book. It narrates how one could make life better by harnessing his thoughts which further cultivates the philosophy and best attitude of a successful person.


Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse, the author, has narrated a lot about Siddartha and his spiritual journey. A lot has been discussed about Siddhartha.He is loved by everyone. He is a source of joy for everybody, but he, Siddhartha, is not a source of joy for himself, he finds no delight in himself.Siddhartha has started to nurse discontent in himself, he has started to feel that the love of his father and his mother, and love of his friend, will not bring him joy forever and ever, will not nurse him, d him, satisfy him.Siddhartha has many queries in his mind like as, ‘Do the sacrifices give a happy fortune?’, ‘What about the Gods?’, ‘Was it really Prajapati who had created the world?’ ‘Was it not the ‘Atman’, the singular one?’ Siddharatha meets his father and says, ‘With your permission, my father, I have come to tell you that it is my longing to leave your house tomorrow and go to ascetics. My desire is to become a Samara.’His father says-’You will go into the go forest and be a Samara , when you will find blissfulness in the forest, come back and teach me to be blissful.’This is just an excerpt, the whole book consists of spiritualistic way of narration, thus becomes interesting one. Once you start reading can’t resist to leave the book in the mid.