"A Summary"
Author
started her journey of one year after having a failed marriage and
initiating a divorce, while she was unhappy in marriage and often
spent the night sleeping or crying on her bathroom floor. The author
finds it well to start her journey from Italy (Roam) or “Say it
like you eat it” or “Thirty-six tales about the pursuit of
pleasure”. After a failed relation with the person she loves, she
does not want to fall in love again. In Italy she tried very hard to
keep all relation just as a friend and most of the time she devoted
to eat different cushions of food, almost in every street of Rome.
She meets Giovanni and his twin brother and falls in love with
Giovanni, but conquered herself to be not to fall in love again, even
in the case when she has to leave this country in next four month.
She meets a lady, an owner of Pasta restaurant, where she spent most
of her time, first by traveling from hotel to restaurant, eat and go
back to Hotel. Her some most important learning in Italy was - first
“The most beautiful man are in Italy and the most beautiful woman
are in France”, second one is “When you are learning something
new, keep patience and be polite” and the third and important one
is to “search for the word belongs to her life”.
Author's
quest of peace takes her at the devoted land of God, Monk and
Temples, where she came in search of her own “Peace of Mind”.
“INDIA” or “Congratulations to meet you” or “Thirty-six
tales about the pursuit of devotion. Her plain lands in Mumbai
(India) around 01:30 AM and later a journey of hours takes her out of
the city to Ashram (The name of Ashram, and the name of Guru not
mentioned in book). Here in India she gone through the learning
process of all Yoga, listening morning chants, but she was not happy
to attend more than one hour long mediation classes and hates this
part of day the most and always tries to escape this one. In Ashram,
she meets with her Guru, Mr. Richard (the entertainer all time to
her), an African fat lady, a typical Young Indian teen of Seventeen,
and A plumber who was also a writer like her and he's the person who
gave a Paper of Instructions to Gilbert for being “Free” from her
own soul cage and depression.
Afterward,
while writing an article on yoga vacations in Indonesia, Gilbert met
a ninth-generation medicine man who told her, one dayshe would come
back and study with him. So after spending four months in Italy and
Indonesia respectively, she came back to Indonesia as announced by
the medicine men in her last meeting with him. “Indonesia” -
“Even in my underpants I feel different” or “Thirty-six tales
about the pursuit of balance”. Initially the old man was not able
to recognize her, who she was and when he meets with her. After a
discussion lastly he was able to accept her presence. He gives all
the learning to her in a very lucid manner by asking her to keep and
continue all her learning she learns in Italy and India. In Indonesia
she meets with Hotel boy, who helped her to find the medicine man
house and all necessary plan from arranging a Bicycle to extend her
Visa for next four months. She meets with a different kind of
medicine woman who was also divorced and lives a life from moving one
place to another. Gilbert arranged to collect a sufficient amount to
purchase a permanent home for medicine woman. She meets with a
person, with whom she finally falls in love as declared by the old
medicine man.
Elizabeth
Gilbert is an American author, whose book “Eat, Pray, Love”
remains in the New York times best selling for more than 200 weeks.
At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated, had a home, a
husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was
unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night sleeping on her
bathroom floor. After separating from her husband and initiating a
divorce, which he contested, she embarked on a rebound relationship
which continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her
devastated and alone. This voyage of self-discovery, it turns out,
was a competition, at whose heart is a need to win. Gilbert refers
once or twice in her book to a childhood in which she was driven to
do well and achieve, and her failure to reconcile the forced fruit of
female ambition with the realities of woman's destiny merely further
embroiders the space during the two.
One
of the good book to read, and from the perspective of woman, its
Indeed a worth book to keep in shelf.
Regards
Dhitendra
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