Mohit Misra is a poet whose book Ponder Awhile has won him accolades from around the world.Times Of India Eastsideplus Pune 5th Oct 2007

Times Of India
Eastsideplus Pune Friday 5th October 2007

He Loves what he"s doing

Mohit Misra is a poet whose book Ponder Awhile has won him accolades from around the world.
Read on to discover why this unconventional poet took to writing
Varun Godinho : eastside

Some writers have an inborn talent. Others have a flair for writing.And there are still others who have begun writing books due to a rather unconventional reason-a sudden attainment of the state of Nirvana. For Mohit Misra a 37 year old poet and author of "Ponder Awhile' life has come a full circle.

Woking with the merchant navy since 1995 he was an absolute atheist .It was during one of his sails in 2003 that he went into a meditative transition and attained the state of Samadhi – a term which is used to describe an enlightened one It was then that he decided to give up his worldy attachments, his job included and domsomething that would ap into and rlease the immense knowledge and wisdom which is accompanied with this state.


The poems encapsulate the universal theme of mankind with a spiritual background to each of them.The process of writing the book was certainly not an easy one."There were times that writing jut one of the poems could take me several weeks.I was constantly struggling to better each and every poem of mine " says Mohit.

Like all great minds, Mohit was initially ridiculed by family and friends when he begun writing his book."I had a number of bitter critics who said this was not my age and time to write such a book
And expressed serious reservations about me doing so" says a visible distressed Mohit while recalling those times.
However his perseverance and diligence eventually bore fruit and silenced his critics when he first published his book in 2005.The effort and dedication that has been put in has won him several kudos.on an online portal –bestbookbuys, his book has been declated to number one book for 2006 in the Poetry,inspirational and religious section. Amazon has included his book among their top 100 bestsellers.

Since the book has not constricted itself to any one particular religion but spreads the message of a universal and One God for all the religions, Christain priests have requested permission to include his poems as part of their sermons while holy men from the Hindu religion have openly spoken in praise of his work.

To date 1500 copies have been sold both in India and abroad. His book is available online and exclusively in Amazons retail outlets
In the country."Now that my book has got the required recongnition ,I intend to translate my book into several languages and thus further its appeal."Judging by the response that he has already received we are sure that this I one poet that the city of Pune can call its very own Shakespeare!

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ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE- Poet Mohit.K.Misra -Indian Express Pune Newsline

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One with the universe
Shveta Vashist Gaur
My friends are yellow, brown and white,What difference does it make to light
Contemplative and simple, Ponder a While is not just a composition of some 66 poems, but an experience that leaves you with your thoughts alone. “I knew this would happen,” says Mohit K Misra, the 37 year-old former Merchant Navy sailor who underwent a revelation that not just changed his life, but also changed him as a human being.
“It happened when I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and found my enlightenment,” he recollects. So, while you go through the immense response that Misra has received for his work on the internet and in person, what leaves you wonderstruck is his way of composing his feelings. Framed in couplets, his poetry canvasses spirituality and the human mind. “I write in dohas to make even the most complex subjects simple. My emphasis has been on the metrical length and rhyme because that pattern is easy to understand and even remember,” he says. Very much so as the language is so unmistakable straightforward, that even a child can understand it. “
Having sold 1,000 copies so far, Misra wants to concentrate on propagating his message—oneness with the universe. “We usually separate ourselves from the universe and keep complaining about our misfortunes and various negativities. My book asks the reader to unite with the universe and be one with it,” he explains. Deriving inspiration from god, love and light, Misra says he has spent the last seven years reading extensively on spirituality and then was able to write on it. “One has to be prepared for death and know that we will all be gone one day,” he says.
Ever since Misra’s spiritual journey began with An Autobiography of a Yogi, he has read almost all the spiritual writers around, right from Herman Hesse to Mikhael Naimy and many more. And, it wasn’t like Misra was always prepared to talk about his thoughts openly. “I have thought a lot and only when I was ready about it, did I talk about it,” he says. The message that he now wants to propagate is, “God is not for others, he is for us only. And, it isn’t that sages and saints are people from another planet, they are all as human and as normal,” he explains.
Misra will soon be heading to Delhi for a poetry reading session for Dahiya Badshah, an Indian poet from Philadelphia.

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