“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.”
![“In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these…” quote by Karan Bajaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd2/karan-bajaj-14774_dissolving_in-the-west-it-is-the-opposite-like-you_867831.jpg)
![“When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.” quote by Karan Bajaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e1/karan-bajaj-14774_kind_when-i-started-these-yoga-were-very-func_984568.jpg)
![“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.” quote by Karan Bajaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef7/karan-bajaj-14774_adventure_i-wanted-to-write-something-that-was-ver_1446099.jpg)
