Bestselling author, blogger, and striving yogi karan bajaj grew up in the himalayas, found his way to nyc, and ultimately felt lost and longing for more meaning after his mother died. The child of greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous new york housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful wall street analyst. Karan bajaj is an indian american author of three contemporary indian novels, keep off the grass, johnny gone down and the seeker. Along the way, the reader can find some pearls of enlightenment on the practice of meditation and yoga. Both a pauseresisting adventure story and a journey of tremendous inner transformation, the yoga of maxs discontent is a compelling novel of spiritual transformation.
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