Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley

by Talbot Mundy

Book Overview

An expedition in 1920s India searches for a lost tribe, a holy Lama, and a piece of jade that possesses supernatural powers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881840459
• ISBN13: 9780881840452
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Are you ready for enlightenment? Read this book.

Read this book and remember how your life is a path full of testing and initiations. We are all led by higher goals, if we so choose. This book will make you feel a part of something grand.It will also make you laugh and feel alive.

Spiritual adventure at once down-to-earth and ecstatic

An English Secret Service agent stationed in mysterious India wants to find his long-lost sister. He has little to go on but he stretches his talents to the breaking point to find her. Little does know that he is not actually the pursuer, but the pursued. He is being secretly led by his guru with an inner love and wisdom that is matched by a personality that puts the lie to the stereotypical image of the reticent, desiccated spiritual high and mighty swami. This guru-lama will keep you panting for more of his sublimely practical wisdom as he liberally sprinkles his tongue-in-cheek aphorisms throughout the book. I have photo-copied all of these and enjoy reading them often to keep my spiritual quest from degenerating into a brittle formulaic procedure or trailing off into a wispy yearning for an other worldly never-never-land. Your everyday life IS the Path and this twinkly-eyed lama will not let you forget it. Indeed, if you think your life is tough as a student aspirant, by the end of the book, you will realize how ever-so-much-harder is the teacher's lot. You will be brought to a summit of poignant insight that leaves you with naught but a desire to throw your arms around this forthright, insightful, stern lama. You will want to comingle your love with this man who has blended his heart flame into an elixir that will, if you truly quaff it, forevermore lift you onto a new Summit. You will find a new definition of spiritual responsibility--alive, vibrant and free--in a dedicaton to service heretofore unknown. I have read this book three times now--and two of those times I read it aloud to friends whom I loved enough to want to share with them its rare mixture of wisdom, spiritual yearning, humor, businesslike can-do spirit, mystery, adventure and hope. I gave my last copy to a couple, whom I instantly recognized as soul mates when I met them. Now I am buying it again and look forward to meeting more people I love enough to give it to. Maybe my having another copy will invoke another such joyous reunion. And if you buy it and read it, I'm sure you, too, will be some measure closer to the union of hearts that all spiritual seekers on this planet are aiming for.