Yen's World - The Book

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Instructive, thought provoking, enriching, fascinating - a kaleidoscope of images of glorious hues sprinkled with sombre shades.

Dreams for most of us are just that – dreams, but not for this young boy. From a childhood of abject failure and tattered hopes, he held onto his dream. He learnt that faith was not something you found in a supermarket; rather you discovered it within yourself. It grows in you, around the template you were born with. If you allowed the potter to shape you, he would. If you resisted, you would remain what you started out as – a lump of clay.

This is a story that has waited for generations. A story about odds; about how one grasped an opportunity, overhauled a handicap, and surmounted the obstacle to make it count. Seized by the sheer power of faith and self-belief, and by a willingness to submit to the realization that one will prevail if one wants to, a young man learns not to swim with the tide, but against it. Yet, he allows himself to align and flow with the ceaseless rhythm of the cascade, in the belief that the waterfall’s course, that hurtles through the deep ravine, would eventually lead one to the sublime, the steady, the real, the final - the one that you searched for all your life and never found - the river that leads you to the open sea.

This is a story like never before that takes you on a roller coaster ride, through the rustic sixties in the Indian South, through the sedate seventies of Bombay, through fog filled icy nights, East of the Iron curtain, to a sultry damp one in South East Asia, through the sights and sounds of continents stretching from the Far East through the Near East, Middle East and Africa to the Meditteranean and Europe – surfing and sailing through the stormy Pacific and windy Atlantic, through haunted seas and ships with life, in the company of adventurers and ghosts, fighting the perils of nature, abuse and reward, life and death. Filled with nail biting suspense and mystery, tender romance and exciting drama, on the ships he loved so much, and who even loved him in return, not knowing that he was being tutored in the most important lessons in life, by a Captain he never saw.

This is a true story of a boy who literally rises from the ashes. When all is lost with no hope left, something, or someone from somewhere would always pull him through. He struggles to understand it, to give this something a name. He resignedly called it a coincidence, a stroke of luck.

But, when these strange coincidences kept occurring again and again, repeating itself at every key stage in life; when the critical roll of the dice gets fortuitously propelled onto the foot of that ladder, in life’s game of ‘Mokshapat’, the popular ‘Snakes and Ladders’ - one is then compelled to witness the design, the hand of destiny, the moment of truth.

All the questions that we grapple with in life, our perpetual quest to find the answers – hopefully this book will help you find a direction or an inflection point to start the search. Inspiring or at the very least, thought provoking, it begs a fresh understanding of life – one that is humming around us, within us, and everywhere in the universe. Life and truth with all its hues and shades, is brought out from behind the curtain, onto the full glare of the lighted stage.

Just as a butterfly flapping its wings could theoretically birth a typhoon across the other end of the planet, the book connects a string of unconnected and barren simplicities into a web of myriad complexities, across time and space, at a pace and style that is targeted to keep the reader hanging onto the edge.

Embracing complex subjects like marine technology, and ocean navigation, amply embalmed with raw courage and bravado, a troubled adolescence, exorcism, spirit worlds, romance, and chilling encounters – simplified by an easygoing narrative style. Each chapter tells a different story, all skillfully linked to each other.