Essay on “Your Favourite Book” Complete Essay for Class 10, Class 12 and Graduation and other classes.

Your Favourite Book

Or

The Book you Like Most

Or

A Holy Book you have Read

                Books are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age.  They help us to forget our crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions and lay our disappointments asleep.

                In Modern times, books are being published in very published in very large numbers on all subjects under the sun.  It is not possible for a man to read all of them. He has to pick and choose. A right choice of books is, therefore, essential.  Books have to be chosen according to one’s individual tastes and needs.  A wrong choice of books can lead to a wastage of time and a ruin of one’s career.  In the matter of the choice of books, guidance should be sought from elders and experts.  We must also know how to read a book.  Different, books are to be treated differently.  Bacon advises : “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

                Reading is my hobby.  Whenever I find some vacant hours. I get hold of a book to read.  Reading gives me a lot of pleasures. Books delight and educate at the same time.  They introduce a person to the best of minds of the past and prove to be a very good company in weal or woe.  Robert Southey writes about books:

                “My never failing friends are they

                With who I converse day by day.

                With them I take delight in weal

                And seek relief in woe.”

                I like to read books on all subjects but books on philosophy give me the greatest pleasure.  They make me think and give me a particular type of comfort and delight.  Of the various books that I have been reading the Bhagvad Gita has impressed me the most.  It is my favourite book.

                The Bhagvad Gita is full of some rare gems of wisdom.  It conveys the message of Lord Krishana, the greatest of the philosophers.  It is an excellent treatise on man, his position in this universe, his soul, his duty and role in life.  In tells us that soul is deathless.  It is body alone that dies.  Death is only a change of clothes. There is no reason for a man to be afraid of death.  It is this message that has always inspired great martyrs of the world to lay down their lives for a noble cause. The Gita also gives us a message of universal brotherhood.  Life, according to the Gita, is only a manifestation of the Divine.  All human beings are nothing but material abodes of the same spirit, the greater soul.  Bodies may differ but the soul is the same.  It is the same soul that pervades us all.  The Gita also tells us that a man should go on doing his duty without worrying about the results. One should do one’s duty and leave the results to God.   Prizes or punishments are pre-ordained.  God is the supreme judge and we should submit humbly to His will.  One should try to remain happy and calm in all circumstances. Things are not what they seem to be.  Man knows very little.  He does not know even a faction of the reality.  HE should, therefore, have faith in God and go on doing his duty. He should play his destined part with a sense of devotion.

                All this has been a great source of inspiration to me in my life.  Whenever I am upset or in trouble, I seek refuge in the Gita and find solace and a healing touch.  Lord Krishana Himself appears to be speaking to me in person and I find myself elevated to a different universe.  It is this book that has sustained me through the various ups and downs in my life.  That I why I love and adore it.