Author: D. Pasupuleti

ISBN: 1933538295

The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop,  To read Manuela's reviews CLICK HERE

A guide to finding self happiness and peace of mind

D. Pasupuleti is the director of neurology at a teaching hospital in US and he believes that it takes “Five Golden Rules” to find eternal happiness. These five rules are explained in detailed in his book “Change Your Mind.” D. Pasupuleti gives plenty of examples from his day-to-day life, from his experience or from the books he read to outline and prove his theory.

The reader will embark into an introspective journey and will question many ideas in the book, such as D. Pasupuleti claims that God is in everyone and everyone is God, or that human beings are born to be happy but yet we let our emotions and mind states disrupt the bliss within ourselves. The book is a philosophical approach to our purpose and existence in the universe. D. Pasupuleti approaches deep fundamental questions in his book and he is determined to make the reader understand his point of view.

What D.Pasupuleti calls “self-knowledge”, Hinduism calls it “awareness” or “being awake.” As somebody who has been interested in Hinduism religion or philosophy, as some might call it, I found myself questioning D.Pasupuleti’s book. I have read several books on Hinduism religion and I thought this book was not that original. As a matter of fact, this book is based on Hinduism way of thinking. The only thing D.Pasupuleti does different, is explaining Hinduism fundamentals for the Western mind to relate to and understand the philosophy better. Also, reading this book, I often thought his work is similar to the great mystic Osho’s teachings. The great mystics of India base their entire life preaching Hinduism and the sacred scriptures to the public to make them understand better their own religion and what to do to reach “elightment.”

D.Pasupuleti preaches what Hinduism words it slightly different: in order to be happy, one has to cut the link to the material world and clean up your mind. Hinduism approach in finding happiness is through yoga or deep meditation. D. Pasupuleti believes that by just being aware of your actions, emotions, reactions and relationship with God, one can find happiness. As a reader and a yoga and meditation practitioner, I found myself questioning D. Pasupuleti’s book. The great sadhus, gurus or yogis of India believe that eternal happiness comes through very hard work after many years of adopting Hinduism way of thinking and after many years of practicing meditation and yoga.

D. Pasupuleti claims that just by reading his book and practicing his “five golden rules” of happiness one can achieve eternal happiness. Furthermore, D. Pasupuleti writes a very deep philosophical book, which guarantees happiness if we follow his approach, but he does not provide any research data indicating that this approach actually works. How can I believe him, if he has not tried out his approach on anybody else nor has he analyzed the results to see if his theory actually works or not?

The book is very well written and he is a fantastic writer. For somebody who has read other books on Hinduism religion and way of thinking, the content of the book is nothing original. D. Pasupuleti’s work provides a quality read and if you are a Westerner who never read anything on Hinduism or Buddhism, this book might be a fantastic read and you will probably learn a great deal.