If you’ve ever felt a spiritual calling, and felt there was moreto your life than just the day to day grind, then do we have theshow for you.
Today I’ll be talking with Karan Bajaj, a #1 best-selling indianauthor about his brilliant new novel The Yoga of Max’s Discontent,inspired by a one year sabbatical traveling from Europe to India byroad and learning yoga and meditation in the Himalayas.
Today I want to talk about taking a spiritual and creativesabbatical, literal or metaphorical to get in alignment, find ourpath, and find our deepest self.
That plus we’ll talk about going silent, riding a scooty,becoming vegetarian teetotalers, holding up your arm for 12 yearsstraight, and how to hang with monkeys and snakes.
Questions and Topics Include:
- Taking a creative or spiritual sabbatical, literally ormetaphorically
- Why his story begins in a Bronx housing project
- Why the connection with suffering in the US isn’t as real orvisceral as it was in India
- How this book can change your psyche
- What was Karan’s sabbatical year (from Europe to India by road)
- From Europe to India to Himalayas
- Why Karan has a pattern of taking time off to be and discoverfacets of himself.
- How he ended up hanging with homeless drug addicts inBulgaria
- How did he get the idea to become successful, then leave it allbehind
- How travelling got the creative juices flowing
- Why entertainment and meaning is his formula for success
- What were the 10 day vipassana retreats like?
- What Monkey’s did to his wife’s backpack.
- What the ashram was like with monkeys and cobras
- Why you’d need to step over cobra’s if you go to the bathroomat night
- What does karma and past lives have to do with yoga
- Why the further you get away from sabbatical, the more youshift back to the way you were before
- What is dharma?
- How he’s realizing it’s all about the inner journey, even morethan seeing outward beauty (for instance the Grand Canyon)
- What happened when he was hiking in the Himalayas (crossing aglacier barefoot!!!)
- How was hiking in the Himalayas and who were some of the‘trippiest’ people he met.
- What’s a standing baba
- What enlightenment means and why you need to let go of thestriving for enlightenment
- How he just started writing at 28 and already has multiplebest-sellers at 36
- Why it’s so important to live your Dharma
- What has he learned about meditation and mindfulness
- Why there are basic steps to follow before moving tomindfulness
- What is concentration based meditation
- Go to Karanbajaj.com/yogamax
- Get book and free meditation course, yoga flow course and yogaguide
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