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Svadhyaya: A Journey of Self Learning
After having spent her entire life in England, Harpreet M Dayal begins a new chapter with her husband by moving to Canada. This book is a collection of poems and musings, capturing various aspects of her life and her transition to a new country, a new city and a new home. This book is the culmination of many introspective moments and the realization that good things come outside of one's comfort zone. It is why she decided to name this collection Sv dhy ya, which is the Sanskrit word for "study of the self." It is a journey to a better understanding of oneself."
108 pages, Paperback
Published January 31, 2018
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January 28, 2019
Love changes, always: together with our own time, with the accumulating treasure of our own experiences, and with times, as well.
There is a certain perception about love (a romantic one) which consists in the belief that in order to fully love someone we should forget about ourselves.
Now, even though it's true that to love means to give ourselves, completely, it's also true that to forget to love ourselves properly can only distance us from a solid happiness able to stand up and support us through every possible time, and often with the result of pushing us to cling to a relationship enough to damage and eventually suffocate it.
This collection of poems and writings by the author is meant to function as an antidote to such terrible risks.
The first part is a series of short poems which aims at guiding the reader towards a deeper knowledge of their own worth and importance: the use of the first person helps who reads to feel those reflections as if they were personally exploring them, and very often, despite their shortness, these verses are impactful enough to push to further reflect on them, as if they were seeds from whom a tree can grow (is this, perhaps, (one of) the meaning(s) of the tree depicted on the cover?), and fruits of wisdom to harvest and enjoy can blossom and ripen.
This is a book to carefully imbibe in one's soul and mind, and not just to passively read!
The second part is another sequence of... polaroids, through the course of which we get hints of how even in the context of a relationship we can learn how to love ourselves: it can be read, such body of lessons, in the eyes of those who properly love us, just the way we are.
In the third and last part there are a few longer poems of a wider scope, and of an even greater poetic effect, taking the reader by the hand and accompanying them further on the sometimes hard path of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
The poetry and the expression in this work are simply graceful.
A precious read... a seed well worthy to be sown in the soil of everyone's soul.
There is a certain perception about love (a romantic one) which consists in the belief that in order to fully love someone we should forget about ourselves.
Now, even though it's true that to love means to give ourselves, completely, it's also true that to forget to love ourselves properly can only distance us from a solid happiness able to stand up and support us through every possible time, and often with the result of pushing us to cling to a relationship enough to damage and eventually suffocate it.
This collection of poems and writings by the author is meant to function as an antidote to such terrible risks.
The first part is a series of short poems which aims at guiding the reader towards a deeper knowledge of their own worth and importance: the use of the first person helps who reads to feel those reflections as if they were personally exploring them, and very often, despite their shortness, these verses are impactful enough to push to further reflect on them, as if they were seeds from whom a tree can grow (is this, perhaps, (one of) the meaning(s) of the tree depicted on the cover?), and fruits of wisdom to harvest and enjoy can blossom and ripen.
This is a book to carefully imbibe in one's soul and mind, and not just to passively read!
The second part is another sequence of... polaroids, through the course of which we get hints of how even in the context of a relationship we can learn how to love ourselves: it can be read, such body of lessons, in the eyes of those who properly love us, just the way we are.
In the third and last part there are a few longer poems of a wider scope, and of an even greater poetic effect, taking the reader by the hand and accompanying them further on the sometimes hard path of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
The poetry and the expression in this work are simply graceful.
A precious read... a seed well worthy to be sown in the soil of everyone's soul.
May 14, 2018
This was a beautiful poet collection, they were not to fierce and there is so much you can agree too. It’s about how you shape yourself and how you grow
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