Shattered Dreams is the sequel to the national bestseller, Rise of the Sun Prince, in the new spiritual and motivational series Ramayana - The Game of Life. Twelve joyful years have passed in Ayodhya since the wedding of Rama and Sita at the end of Book 1. Shubha Vilas narrates the riveting drama of Rama’s exile.
The book begins with the dilemma Dasaratha seems to be facing. With sleepless nights galore, Dasaratha decides it is time that he hand over the reigns of his kingdom to his eldest son, Rama. Besides the epic family drama which ensues in this book, Shubha Vilas through this story of the Ramayana also tries to set examples through the various analogies in the book of how a leader should behave and lead his people.
I have not read the first book which is 'The Rise of the Sun Prince',however, it was a pleasant suprise to read detailing and the footnotes which enlightens us on how we can inherit wisdom from a beautiful tale such as The Ramayana and whose lessons can be imbibed in the current times. While the first book concentrated on the birth of Rama and his marriage with Sita (or so I gathered from Goodreads & Google), the second book describes in detail about Rama’s coronation as Ayodhya’s king and the scheming minds of Manthara and Kaikeyi to halt King Dasaratha’s plans and send Ram to exile. It also shows us how Rama chose to be the obedient and dutiful son to his father despite appeals from people to come back to Ayodhya.
While the narration is absolutely flawless, for someone like me (who has never heard/read stories from the Ramayana before) I enjoyed reading the footnotes on how to embibe the lessons from The Ramayana in our daily life.
Despite being a mythological book, this book tends to work as a wonderful self help book. (Or atleast, the footnotes seemed to suggest that)
I absolutely enjoyed the author's writing style, and will probably go give the first book a read and stay tuned for the next part in this series (if there is one.) While it does tend to be a tad bit slow, it picks up pace and gets you hooked on to it.
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