Reading holy books can give us a sense of fulfilment

If you read holy books, it is likely your mindset will take a new direction. Of course, it depends on your receptivity. By reading such books, you tend to keep your mind clean of any impurity of thought, and that ultimately leads to good decisions. You become a person of pious thoughts and compassionate.

Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, says, by reading the

Geeta, he gets into a ‘different world’ that makes him see and feel about only good things that abound our planet. “Every morning, I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvad Geeta… When I lay down the book, and go to my well (at Walden) for water, I meet the servant of Brahma, priest of Vishnu and Indira, and the pure water of Walden is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”

This kind of awesome feeling can come only from a true devotee of any faith, one who adheres to the path of truth and love. One who has faith in any religious scripture cannot but be a pious person whose only aim in life would be to see a better world for himself as well as all sentient beings. Such a person takes the entire world and its inhabitants as necessary partners for a happy existence in the cooperative spirit of interdependence.

Whenever we read a holy book, whether it is the Geeta, the Bible, the Quran or any other, we get a sense of heightened hope, and also the feeling that all is well with the world.