Chasing Maya...
After reading this post if you count me as a paid writer who blogs for advertising the book about which I’m gonna write in this post, it would be awkward... So let me introduce myself in a few words...
Well I am a Christian boy, 20, pursuing bachelor of engineering (at present pre-final year)...
So now let me get back to the point...
I was in search of a good topic to start blogging. Of course googling and wiking will answer almost every doubt, and I don’t find sense in creating some absurd ditto web documents !
So came to the conclusion that whatever I blog should be the essence of my views and experiences...
The pile of books in my shelf gave me an answer..., a vibrant new topic for my first blog post..., ’CHASING the AVATAR’
’CHASING the AVATAR’ by Jovan Jones is not a mere fictionalized novel trying to inculcate someone’s imagination into our brain. Its Jovan’s autobiographical depiction of what she encountered here in India in search of truth, faith and enlightenment.
Maya(hmm...thats how Jovan calls herself in the novel) was pursuing her doctoral studies and as most of the youths, she also had a lot of confusions regarding spiritual life. Indeed a spiritual battle was going on in her head. She even deliberately experimented some rare religions and found them not suiting for her ! Later she gained more knowledge regarding Hinduism and Budhism and finally under a friend’s guidance she came to meet a Guru ‘Cha ma’ or this so called Avatar.
She was in a way addicted to all those sudden spiritual experiences and in the new dizziness of tremendous change she forgets herself ! Leaving behind her mom, dad and Jesus Christ she left with this Avatar to India. She believed the Avatar blindly n thought that she was gaining some kind of better warmth and peace from this new psycho life.
Jovan’s descriptions of her life as Avatar’s devotee, rituals and unending mental and physical struggles in South India will be shocking for those who are trying to seek solace by following such Avatars !
Her mother’s love and prayers to Jesus Christ to save her daughter works well both in her real life and in the Novel. Of course whoever calls on the name of Lord shall be saved.
Jovan was born and brought up as a Christian and hence her style of explaining experiences enroots well in Christian perspective and the Holy Bible. But I don’t think this will ever act as a hindrance to non-Christian readers. Also all the complex terms related to the rituals mentioned in book could be found in its appendix.
Hence in short Jovan’s novel gives enhanced reading experience and our mind will indeed chase Maya and her fate all the way from US to India. In many points the mental stress n strain because of being in midst such pitch black of dark beliefs will make us relate our lives to that of character Maya’s. Her pathetic life after her foolishness to flee from the Holy Bible and later the miracles of believing in Christ ultimately are well depicted in the book.
Confusions regarding spirituality may happen in any phase of our life and therefore I would recommend this book to all those Christians who are not counting Jesus Christ as their one and only redeemer and who have clogged their minds with thoughts to be the disciples of such greedy Avatars.
With God’s grace if I’m able earn some hits n comments for this post, then I will try my level best to review its sequel in my next post.
With lots of love n regards,
Lone Warrior
