THE MONK WHO GAMBLED ON THE GAME OF LIFE

Human life is a continuous struggle between the fundamental principles governing the material and the spiritual values respectively to achieve a state of happiness and liberation all human beings on earth try to find. Therefore on one side of life the worldly way is offered and recommended to accumulate material possessions while on the other side of life on the spiritual path renunciation of the world is suggested to seek salvation. This book is based on the true-life story of a householder who became a hermit. Swami Satyanand’s real-life incidents are touching it’s a universal story which depicts an ordinary man’s struggle to free himself from all the restraints of a monotonous worldly life leading to a tedious path of self-discovery to attain moksha and yet again he finds himself stuck in the same grind. The story conveys worldly life and spiritual life is not separate. Life is the same and spirituality is as important as family life is.