Om Swami Answers #TheBigQuestionsOfLife in His Latest Book

16 April 2020

presents from bestselling author
Om Swami
THE BIG QUESTIONS OF LIFE

Out now on Kindle!

About the Book
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Loss is unavoidable; grief isn’t. Death is certain. And life?

Well, life isn’t certain. Its uncertainty, unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is.
Often, we run blindly into fire, we step on snakes, we get entangled in snares – these are the fires of desire, the snakes of attachment, and the snares of jealousy and covetousness. If we are bitten, burnt and hurt, we call it suffering, and believe it to be the way of life, when, in fact, we are mistaking our pain for our suffering. We have little control over the former but the latter is almost entirely in our hands. We can take things in our stride or be tossed on the tide. All it takes is to be able to open our eyes. This choice, we must remember, is ours; always.

Om Swami’s new book marks the way to enlightenment through mindful thinking.

About the Author
Om Swami is a mystic who lives in the Himalayan foothills. Prior to renunciation, he founded and ran a multimillion-dollar software company with offices across the world. He is also the author of the bestselling books If Truth be Told: A Monk’s Memoir (HarperCollins, 2014), The Wellness Sense: A Practical Guide to Your Physical and Emotional Health Based on Ayurvedic and Yogic Wisdom (HarperCollins, 2015), When All Is Not Well: Depression, Sadness and Healing – A Yogic Perspective (HarperCollins, 2016), The Last Gambit (HarperCollins, 2017), Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom from a Monk’s Bowl (HarperCollins, 2018), The Children of Tomorrow: A Monk’s Guide to Mindful Parenting (HarperCollins, 2019), and The Book of Kindness: How to Make Others Happy and Be Happy Yourself (HarperCollins, 2019).

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Om Swami’s newest book provides an illuminating, insightful look into the big questions of life — the things that we have no control over, as well as the things that are in our hands. It is up to us, as Om Swami so aptly demonstrates, to make the best of what the world hands us, to be mindful and generous, compassionate and happy. The Big Questions of Life is a book for our times: we at HarperCollins India are proud to be able to bring it to readers. – Udayan Mitra, Publisher – Literary, HarperCollins India

About HarperCollins India
HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2000 titles across 10 imprints. HarperCollins India authors have won almost every major literary award, including the Man Booker Prize, the DSC Prize, the New India Foundation Award, the Atta Galatta Prize, the Shakti Bhatt Prize, the Publishing Next Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Crossword Book Award. HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world, including Oneworld, Bonnier Zaffre, Usborne, Dover and Lonely Planet. HarperCollins India is also the only publisher to have been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award three times: at Publishing Next in 2015, and at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018.

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Page extent 200 | ₹ 299

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