Book Review – The Rampa Story

I was browsing through a book store and I came across ‘The Rampa Story’. It seemed like a nice idea to read the journey of a monk. Maybe I could learn a thing or two too. So, along with my other purchases, The Rampa Story came with me home that day.

I started reading this book a couple of days after I bought it. I can normally go through a book quite fast. But this book is different. Many a times, I kept the book aside not sure I would ever get back to it. Well, this is not the most different experiences I have read in a book, but I guess now that it is a way it has been told. Maybe it is too ahead for me and I need more time – a lot more time to make sense of it differently.

The Rampa Story

The Rampa Story is written by T Lobsang Rampa and is a journey of a Tibetan monk and his journey across Tibet – Korea – Russia – Europe – USA and back to Europe.

Lobsang Rampa is a Tibetan monk who is gifted with the power of Clairvoyance / ability to see the Aura of humans as easily as we can see anything we may see. He is a qualified Doctor, Engineer and a pilot. He is guided by mentors and other monks who tell him the reason for his being is the advancement of his study in clairvoyance. Rampa is called upon by the Dalai Lama at the time to look at the Aura of those who visited him. Until this point, the book still seems fine to me.

It is very early on in the book, almost in the beginning pages where Lobsang Rampa talks about astral traveling and he goes into space where there are blue towers where his spiritual guides are. Now, this is where I lose interest in this book.

But oh, only if this was marketed as a fantasy novel, I would have really enjoyed this book. But because it is the real-life experience of Lobsang Rampa, everything in the book feels like a ‘NOO WAAY, PLEASE STOP’ to me.

But I continued, what if there is ONE take away from the book. Right? We have all read books like that anyways.

The latter half of the book talks about Lobsang Rampa giving up his failing body and because his study in the Aura studies is still incomplete, he takes over the body of another person, a person of British origin.

The greatest disappointment of the book is that there is no mention of his Aura studies other than the him being a clairvoyant and he is pursuing it further.

I don’t want to give away anything of the experiences and do not want to spoil the book for anyone who might be interested in it. I just realized this book is not for me, well, maybe, not just yet.

Thanks for reading.

All photos are my own.

All photos are shot on a mobile phone.