Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
Written by Deepak Chopra and Sanjiv Chopra
Narrated by Deepak Chopra and Sanjiv Chopra
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In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West.
The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: While Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home.
Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements—Deepak as a global spiritual teacher and best-selling author, Sanjiv as a world-renowned medical expert and professor at Harvard Medical School.
Brotherhood will fascinate and inspire those who still believe in America’s capacity to foster achievement and reward hard work.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Waist of time for me unfortunately, nothing to do with brotherhood, just 2 separate stories and far too much talking about Ameta , and to be honest I wasn’t curious about her
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a humble man. Experiencing his life in India and in US. His beliefs, insightfulness, leadership. Sometimes his brother shared.
While going to church in organized religions, To think that I was taught, that he was a big no-no. And I learned in time that I was the one in wrong by judging him and others of different faiths, yet they actually lived what they believed. True examples.
And Deepak gave so much back, yet often faced rejection and prejudicism, for being Indian. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
By the time I finished Brotherhood, I found the title ironic. Neither of the Chopra brothers focused much attention on their relationship.
They wrote alternating chapters in this dual memoir, and I enjoyed getting two different perspectives on the same events. I loved learning about India from native sons. However, about midway through, the memoir devolved into a very impersonal story of two parallel careers in medicine. Sanjiv’s chapters read like a resume´. Deepak’s chapters read like a series of lectures on ayurvedic medicine and spirituality. I was curious about how he felt when Sanjiv questioned his professionalism, and how he felt about his pregnant wife having to drive herself to the hospital when labor began, because he was working. I was curious about whether their fame and success led to conflicts with their children. And how did it change them when they became uncles and grandfathers. In the end, I was disappointed because this is a chronology of their lives, rather than self-reflection about their lives.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I might be a little biased, but in this double autobiography, it was Deepak Chopra who kept my full attention. Apart from excelling at what he does, Deepak Chopra has that uncanny spark of appeal to a reader. The famous doctor (whose name became nothing short of a household word) talks with deep humility and candid self-examination about arriving at his chosen path, baring his soul, admitting to failures and doubts that I had no idea existed in his life, though I have read most of his books. He sums it up: "When I stepped away from the pack, I realized that you can't be a lighthouse without also being a lightening rod".