Escape from Samsara: Poems by Vijay R. Nathan offers over forty poems of love, emotions, and the unknown. These poems create the means to escaping a world of despair. In Buddhism, Samsara means the cycle of repeated births, mundane existence, and dying again. As you begin to embrace each of these poems, you will be able to take in the essence of these cycles through the journey of overcoming and breaking free from the routine and status quo. See Escape from Samsara as a way to break the shackles of confinement. Escape from Samsara offers not only a great way of escape, but as the words are spoken you will begin to feel each syllable explode in your mouth. Poems like Degenerate Times, Rebirth, The Second Challenge and A Quiet Reflection are poems that not only set the stage for your reading pleasure, but keep the momentum of eliminating and ridding the mind, body and soul of confinement.

“I’ve always loved brisk iced sweet tea famed for its exceptional fragrance. It is a perfect way to begin a cozy evening.” This peaceful, calming verse in the poem Virtual Intrigue speaks volumes. As in this poem, the simple things begin the tranquility of life and develop the form of escape. You will discover in Escape from Samsara that there is a sensual aura to each poem as their individual personalities take form. Each of these poems will put your mind in another world and place you in another atmosphere of the most compelling mysteries of the world.

Escape from Samsara: Poems by Vijay R. Nathan is a short collection of poems on matters relating to the spiritual quest toward enlightenment. Escape from Samsara: Poems is a personal expression of Vijay’s subjective experiences and feelings as he finds his own way out of the illusory world or Samsara that we live in. This poetry book is divided into a few sections with several poems in each section. Each poem can be read by itself and in any order. A lot of the poetry stems from Vijay’s own experiences living in New York City and other places around the world. The underlying theme of the poems revolves around the spiritual quest towards nirvana or moksha, finding oneself, breaking away from the attachment to the material world, and escaping the world of illusion that we create in our own minds.

I very much enjoyed the theme and concept underlying this collection of poems. All of these subjects are ones that interest me and this journey or quest towards the Ultimate Reality and away from the Samsara is one that is especially relevant in today’s modern world. With the advent of machinery and technology, the focus of people is more and more on the material world and less on the natural and spiritual world. This collection is a good reminder of this fact and hopefully a reminder in the right direction. The poems vary greatly in length and meaning and there is something in this book for everyone. This is a good read that I would recommend to anyone.