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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Veronika decides to die


Veronika decides to die

(8/2015)

Depressingly excellent read, Paulo has created yet other wonder which I say is to describe the various yogic methods for spiritual advancement and by advancement we mean fast spiritual advancement by raising the demons within us and then satisfying or suppressing them in order to calm the mind and enjoy that alluring everlasting joy.

The book starts with ghastly humor wherein Veronika has already swallowed four packets of sleeping pills and writes a suicide note in a funny mood that she intended to die because the people didn’t know where on earth Slovenia was. Deathly fun isn’t it

During her life, Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people’s lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them. 

This syringe contains a dose of insulin, ‘he said, speaking in a grave, technical tone of voice. “Its used by diabetics to combat high blood glucose. However, when the dose is much larger than normal, the consequent drop in blood glucose provokes a state of coma.’ That’s awful, inhuman. People struggle to get out of a coma not to go into one’.

From where she was, Zedka could see the ward and the beds, all empty except for one, to which her body was strapped, and beside which a girl was standing, staring in horror. The girl didn’t know that the person in the bed was till alive with all her biological functions working perfectly but that her soul was flying, almost touching the ceiling, and experiencing a sense of profound peace.

The end as always is in the Paulo style wherein he lets his readers soar high in the sky like a kite and we all know that in the end every kite comes back to the flyer similarly in this book also he pulls the string down in the positive domains and lets Veronica live but the book is so beautifully written that it doesn’t matter whether Veronica lives or dies. What mattered is already given in the story; and that is it is easier to die but more difficult to live a free life of own desires.
 

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