Secrets by Rhonda Byrne

I spent my sunday reading Secrets by Rhonda Byrne. I didn't know much about the book just that it was the no. 1 bestseller in Crossword, Landmark and Reliance Time-out. I had read the preview of the book in the bookstore and thought that it is more of an inspirational kind of a book, so didnt buy that.

Now, how did i get my hands on the book? I got the book as a gift from one of our vendors as part of their relationship management exercise. The interesting part is the relationship manager had written something like 'Sharing with you the spirit that drives our team'. I am not sure whether she meant this or not, it made me read the book.

About the book:

It talks about the secret law, the law of attraction, the entire content of the book revolves around this law. There are quotes by the people who have internalised it and certain illustrations of people who are benefited by it. The book is well structured. It starts off with introducing the law and simplified it further for better understanding. It provides processes for using the law and illustrations of the application of the law in certain aspects one values the most, like money, relationships, health, world, life and the self !

While reading the book what came to my mind was the quote from Paulo Coelho's Alchemist, "When you know what you want the whole world conspires you to achieve it". Secrets is about this and much more, in secrets the whole world is replaced by the entire Universe and the contribution of the self in order to achieve the "it".

Another thing that struck me was, Secrets talks about thoughts. If you have good thoughts you attract good thoughts and you feel good and if you have bad thoughts you attracts bad thoughts and you feel bad. Along these lines, in Mahabharata, Yudhisteera, the elder brother of the Pandavas, goes around the world and comes back and informs Lord Krishna that there are no bad people on earth whereas Dhuryodhana does the same thing and comes back and says that there are no good people on earth. As per the Mahabharata, Yudhisteera is the good guy and Dhuryodhana the bad guy. So is it because of his thoughts that Yudhisteera attracted only good guys towards him and Dhuryodhana attracted the bad guys. I am not sure if the tale itself is true, but if it is it just reinforces the message in Secrets !!!

The book is not heavy and written in a simple language with lots of illustration and does not promise heaven on earth. One can finish it in a single sitting.

There is a movie on Secrets as well. I haven't seen it yet but surely will do so.

Regarding the book, it is worth a read !