''why to think and not meditate? ''. Review on Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The baby has all the faith on the mother. Infact for the baby , its only her mother that she can depend upon. But , one day why does a mother leave the baby and expect the baby to walk ? The mother still loves the baby and knows that she can still carry the baby, So why doesn't a mother continue to carry her sweet baby ?

It's because she expects the baby to grow up and become self-dependent. She knows that the baby can walk and has to walk on her own to live and to survive on this earth. She wants the baby ''to learn, to work , to use'' rather than ''to just ask and to just wish'' .

This is the essence of ''Atlas Shrugged ''. This book is more than a mere novel. Its a true call to the mankind. It will help you transform yourself from a baby to a grown-up. It helps you keep walking on your own, it convinces you to take up your mind and walk .

You have to walk till you cannot walk no more and till you cannot depend on your mind no more. In plain words, you have to take charge of yourself and go ahead in life till you are healthy and till you are brain-active.

Its not enough if you have the faith and the prayer alone.God has provided you a mind and He knows that the mind will help you in the walk of your life. The dear Lord will send you the rain, but expects you to cultivate the farm.

Btw, there are no words like God or Lord in this book and has a completely rational or logical perspective . The above was only my perspective to assimilate ''the prayer and the work'' and to assimilate ''the faith and mind''.

A reading of this book inspires you to get up and use that great asset called mind and become self-dependent. It does not ask you to lose your faith and become a rational atheist.

But if you believe that it's only faith and it's only positive thinking that matters and believe that all good friends of yours will help you and will pull you up ......

and believe in a wonderful life in Heaven and wondering as what to do with this temporary life?

Or if you are a born-again christian or if you have done some types of eastern meditations to achieve that super intelligence or automatic success.

If you are lazy to read a big book and are not interested in stories .

THEN , just read this book from Page 923 , the starting of John Galt speech (starting from the lines ''who is John Galt?'' ). If you start with one paragraph you will be hooked onto the next 50 Pages of pure brilliance as the answers to some of the important questions of your life will stare at you and will shake you .

Then you will discover at the end that there was one great intellectual woman ,who is the author of Atlas Shrugged , who has impacted the human thinking by just asking the mankind to think and explains convincingly as why a human being should think.

Before being recognized as an intellectual she was tying hard to become a screen writer and just managed to get an extra role in a Hollywood film. Can you imagine the success of this ordinary woman and do you think that you are ordinary and can do nothing substantial. My friend , then there is one help beside God, besides everything i,e you and your MIND.

There were great persons and God(s) who walked on this earth. There are great books written by Godly people and also books inspired by God Himself. There are great books of art and science . But surprisingly, there is very little content or literature which show you that you are a Human who has a mind and asks you to accept it and use it better.

Many of the eastern Gurus and meditation books talk about achieving a great experience of becoming an enlightened man who is beyond joy, sorrow, success or failure. And to achieve that great experience they ask you to shut your mind from all thoughts . In that zero state of mind they say you will get all the answers. You have more questions to ask them . But they say - '' Do not ask, do not question and you will get it '' . They don't define the ''it''. And all they ask you is to meditate and reject the mind. They say - observe your mind, get de-attached from it, watch it etc etc and then take away from the importance of using the mind or rather accepting it.

''Atlas Shrugged'' is only one such book on earth standing tall and explaining you as why you should not reject the mind. And why you should not delegate or cannot outsource your thinking . You just cannot depend on someone else for you to think. This book is not one of those self-help books explaining steps to achieve success and happiness.

If you are just flowing with the river , accepting destiny cheerfully then also you can live happily. If you think , there is no need to become a super-hero or a super-success then also you can live happily with a ''take-it -easy'' policy. If you don't want to make a difference in this world, then ''just live and let live '' policy also works great.

Only thing is that, you can do more and if you don't want to do more or don't want to excel then this book just helps to listen to the plea of people who make a difference or who excel. Can you atleast listen to them ?

Can you listen to the people with whose thinking you are able to move ( who designed the vehicle) , with whose thinking you are free from diseases, with whose thinking you are able to call or email your dear ones , with whose thinking you are able to read your Bible, Gita (who invented the printing ) .

How about listening to them once , the people to whom you owe something on this earth.

You could listen to them in the form of John Galt's speech. This listening will inspire you to admire the brilliance and to admire the excellence. You have often seen books appreciating beauty but this one is different that it invokes admiration for pure brilliance of mind and logic.

Wake yourself up with a new thought that you are human being with an intellect and make that first move - from that of a crying baby to a walking baby . Go ahead and read ''Atlas Shrugged''.

Discover the John Galt in you .