Books

Some light reading for the aspiring yogi wanna be. I am working on the first two at the moment. 3d one I finished up. Highly reccomended. South indian classics. I warmed up to such by reading epic poems like Iliad, Odyssey or Eugene Onegin, complete Shakespeare or reading Bulgakov's Master and Margerita in English/Russian in parallel(Russian language skills not good enough). Getting used to poetic writing, strange languages(tamil letters) to increase brain activity is a new challenge as opposed to just reading native language prose written recently by someone from same culture, mindset as oneself. Novels are great and history, philosophy but really going into depth without it being a technical treatise with specialist knowlede in sciences, math, engineering is interesting. For long time practitioners of yoga of course, as in any other specialty area such texts should be normal. I am actually not that much into spiritual literature. There are so many popular books in that direction. I imagine that I am missing out. Biogrphical awakening accounts, advice books. Mostly I just like to experience life, spirituality inclusive. Meeting an author by reading his/her books is more than collecting information. It is experiencing their deeper emotional states. So poetic works, of older vintage normally, go deeper inside of us. Modern works in prose are longr but more prosaic. Admitting subjectivity of emotion would be a good thing. Poetry became passé in 19th century for storytelling but experimental works, flow of consciousness, tried to bring this subjectivity back. This experimentation inspired surreal latin American and other writers in the 60s. At any rate consciousness alteration can be acheived just by picking up a good book. Who needs substances?