Monday, 26 May 2014

Book Review: Meeting Shiva by Tiziana Stupia.

The book is  a spiritual memoir and in the book, it has been described in the most succinct way. It is a spiritual autobiography. The author, Tiziana Stupia has written in it how she got enlightenment by telling her personal state of growth and redemption and has been incorporated with a beautiful and inspiring approach. However, it’s a little different from the genre of books as spiritual autobiography as it will not meet up to your expectations if you are looking forward to it with some spiritually inclined tale. Here in the book, the author has penned a profoundly feet-of-clay story about real emotions, real turmoil and the on-going quest for healing. The writer has written about her story without introducing you with mystic gurus and instead of that, in the book there has been mentioned about the honesty and courageous degree.
 

The author is in her mid thirties and is on the verge of an adventurous overland trip through the Himalayas and embarks upon a tour in order to search her Tantric soul mate. However, even after eight months, this search of her does not meet, while wandering through the lands of   Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan and India, then finally she decides to go back home. Through the book, Tiziana has developed emotional intimacy for her to the readers and with her profound story I am deeply touched. As before, her departure for returning back to her place, she sets out on a final mountainous trip, where she meets Rudra, exactly the man of her dreams and for whom she has been waiting for all her life.  But, let me tell you that this guy, Rudra is  a celibate Hindu monk who lives in an ascetic ashram with strict rules in the secluded Himalayas. The two get drawn into an intense, romantic relationship that soon spirals out of control as Tiziana is drawn into a past long forgotten that ultimately leads her through pain and misery to healing and transformation.
 

 The book, Meeting Shiva explores the dynamic between our spiritual lives and our love lives, by stating the story of what happened during the author’s brief, intense and clearly destined affair with a priest. This was a relationship that uncovered her soul to the core and sharing this transformation of one’ life is really a commendable thing. It is only by telling factual stories of our love experiences that we can start to triumph over the venomous and ambiguous myths and stories that our culture holds about what love is and how it works. Those fairy story beliefs so often set us up to fail.

If you are tired of self-help books and want to know about how to fix your love life and heal your soul, try this one as it will show and answer you some very good questions. An influential, provoking read, I personally like the book very much and highly recommend you to read and challenging yourself to find the same levels of poignant honesty.

Available at lelobooks, an online bookstore in India. So just indulge in some fun-filled online book shopping thing and win attractive discounts.

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