दोन मने

by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

Balasaheb, Every human being has 2 mindsets. One is of an animal, and the other is of God. The first enjoys only cohabitation and the latter believes in sacrifice. The former thinks only of physical pleasures, the later understands the greatness that lies beyond all the pleasures. Nature has given strength to the former mind set, comparatively the second mind is rather weak. The secret of successful life lies at the centre. If both these minds are equal in strength then one can make life happy and if this happy life is developed properly then there lies the success. Everybody understands this but a few practice it properly. The conflict between these two minds is a never ending process. If the second mind overpowers the first then a person with such mindset can face any danger. But if a person gets into the clutches of first mindset then he becomes weak, falls prey to temptations and learns to swindle with those near and dear and then....

Genres: Marathi

238 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1938

About the author

In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a small town.He worked in that school until 1938.While working as a teacher,Khandekar produced in his spare time abundant Marathi literature in various forms. In his lifetime, he wrote sixteen novels, six plays, around 250 short stories, 50 allegorical stories, 100 essays, and over 200 critiques.

Reviews

[Omkar Joshi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is about 3 friends and one  student of their college, also there are some female characters which are playing important role in the development of each character in story.

Balasaheb Deshmukh, subodh naik, shree and agte are 4 characters 

Balasaheb Deshmukh takes majority of share in 1 st half and shree takes the bandit to carry forward the story,

That smooth chage of lead character of story is very smooth, and that's the skill of the writer, at first we feel that some charater left loose in first half but in climax the story of every charater meet and end at same point.


The story is written in 1938 the environment and character's conducts are also showing the old time. Although the people are transforming and generations come and go but emotion remains timeless, hense although the story and characters feels old but their emotions and how mind behaves in certain age feels same as of today's age, emotions like love,fear of losing something, struck in the situation in which don't know what to do what to choose, are shown nicely, the story is for everyone from young to old

[Amogh Pendse · Rating 4 out of 5]

दोन

[Wishwas · Rating 4 out of 5]

खूप ओघवती भाषा आणि वास्तववादी घटनाक्रम. परंतू मला शेवट जरा आटोपता घेतल्या सारखं वाटलं. त्याव्यतिरिक्त उत्तम लिखाण!

[Akash · Rating 3 out of 5]

पुस्तकातील सर्व पात्र शेवटी एकत्र येतात , नेहमीप्रमाणे .
दोन मनांचा लढा सुंदर वर्णिला आहे.
इतके वा इतकेच !

[Sujay Sawant · Rating 4 out of 5]

वि. सं. च्या साच्यातील ४-५ व्यक्ती आणि त्यांच्या परस्परांभोवती गुंतणाऱ्या गोष्टी. शीर्षकाप्रमाणेच दोलायमान, खूप भोगून आणि उपभोगून ज्या बद्दल खरी आस्था आहे त्याच्यापाशी व्यक्त होणाऱ्या. काहीशी दीर्घ कादंबरी पण नेहमीप्रमाणे काही वाक्ये, काळोख्या रात्री टिपून घ्यावी अशा चांदण्यासारखी.

[Rohit Vanjare · Rating 5 out of 5]

माणसाला दोन मन असतात. एक पशूच आणि एक देवाचं. पाहिलं उपभोगत रमून जात,दुसर त्यागात आनंद मानत ! पहिल्याला शरीराच्या सुखपलीकड काहीच दिसत नाही. दुसऱ्याला सुखपलीकडे असणाऱ्या उदात्ततेचा साक्षात्कार होतो. या दोन मनांतल्या पहिल्याला निसर्गान आपला सार सामर्थ्य दिल आहे. दुसर त्या मानाने फार दुबळ असत. या दुसऱ्या मनाच बळ वाढवण, दोनी मनाच बळ सारख करून जीवन सुखानं जगण आणि जगता जगता त्याचा विकास करणं, हे यशस्वी आयुष्याचं खरं लक्षण आहे. पण मनुष्याचा आयुष्यात या दोन मनाचा झगडा नेहमीच सुरु असतो. या झगडयात ज्याच दुसरा मन विजयी होत, ते कुठल्याही संकटाला हसत तोंड देतात. पण पहिल्या मनाच्या आहारी गेलेला माणूस दुबळा होतो, मोहांना बळी पडतो जिवलग माणसांचीही प्रतारणा करू लागतो, आणि ......... !
ययाती नंतर मी वाचलेली वि. स. खांडेकरांची हि दुसरीच कादंबरी, अगदी मनाला स्पर्शुन जाणारी. महारवाड्यातल्या एका हुशार तरुणाची हि कथा... अगदी अलगद उलगडत जाणारं त्याच्या आयुष्यातलं सत्य..... नक्की वाचा :)

[Sandeep Londhe · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one more marvelous creation by V. S. Khandekar Sir, this book teaches us a lot of things about our life. It tells us for what things we should stand ahead in our life.
This book is a message to those people who run away from their responsibility in the name of love and lust. As Shree did in the book, he loves Chapala so much, but still he didn't forgot about his responsibility towards his people , his Grandpa. So that Part about Shree and Chapala I like most about in the book.

[Dhananjay Choudhari · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best creativity of V. S. Khandekar. 'Shri', 'Chapala' gives you a lots of lesson about life, love , responsibility, friendship and passion throughout the book :)