Krishna M Gutala

Spring Leaves is a booklet of musings intending to offer easily adoptable homilies to enable one to lead a good, peaceful, and happy life. It comes with concise catchy tips like the best way to be happy is to try to make others be; take life as it comes; think good, do good, be good; thats how thy life should be; anything can happen to anyone or anything, anytime, anywhere; to expect no problems in life is like wishing no traffic on the road when you drive; and no one comes into the world with a green card (that enables permanent stay in USA); for all come only on visitors visa. Innumerable musings are presented on topics of happiness, individual, people, world, God, life, worry, death, etc. At random, the reader can turn to any page and find something to make one feel better and face life with confidence and optimism.

As the name Random Musings indicates, the book presents a broad spectrum of diverse topics in both poetry and prose formats. The thirty poems in the first section include themes touching upon faith, devotion, compassion, life, patriotism, as well as philosophy and monistic concepts. There are two long poems, one a ballad relating an Indian mythological episode and a moral from it, and the other a patriotic song on various facets of India in different fields. There are a few poems that can be set to music and sung. The second section entitled Just What I Feel relates the authors views on a variety of topics including, happiness, life, world, God, mind, worry, truth, and miscellaneous. The third section Geetha Maala renders extracts from Bhagavad Geetha, the quintessence of ancient Indian scriptures, offering practical guidelines in daily life. It is concise enough to be adopted for daily prayer.