Karan Bajaj

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has…

— Karan Bajaj

I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual,…

— Karan Bajaj

In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by…

— Karan Bajaj

“When you are close, you only see unravelled threads, but with time and distance, it will reveal itself as a mosaic. Just…

— Karan Bajaj

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has…

— Karan Bajaj

In the year that I take off, I don't have any goals. I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga…

— Karan Bajaj

Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become…

— Karan Bajaj

When I came to the U.S., Kraft sponsored my green card, so I was at Kraft foods and I owed them, I…

— Karan Bajaj

Regarding some of the super powers that I reference, like walking on water, I haven't seen people do that, but once you…

— Karan Bajaj

The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La…

— Karan Bajaj

I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent]…

— Karan Bajaj

India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were…

— Karan Bajaj

I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that…

— Karan Bajaj

“Love was for dummies, soulmates were the creation of pulp-fiction writers; romance was craved by ageing, lonely cat owners. Successful relationships were…

— Karan Bajaj

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

— Karan Bajaj

In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or…

— Karan Bajaj

Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters…

— Karan Bajaj

I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very…

— Karan Bajaj

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is…

— Karan Bajaj

“It's not time that is passing by after all, it's you and I”

— Karan Bajaj

“...a dishonest man in a dishonest world; a morally ambiguous observer of a morally ambiguous universe.”

— Karan Bajaj

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I…

— Karan Bajaj

Now, I think of my writing as having two foundations: entertainment and meaning. The meaning portion is really me trying to answer…

— Karan Bajaj

I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad.…

— Karan Bajaj

There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that…

— Karan Bajaj