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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