A wonderful, easy book on Awakening from the illusion of duality.

Ramesh's voice as a Sage is a rare mix of gentleness and explosive expansion of awareness. Widely considered one of the best teachers of Advaita (nonduality), Ramesh is charming and easy to understand, even if one has no background in esoterics.

I have studied other Eastern sages, such as Ramana Maharshi, Nisaragadatta Maharaj and the Dalai Lama, and I find Ramesh to be a rare and precious gem among many such jewels of evolutionary consciousness.

One of my favorite passages of this book has to do with clarifying the often misunderstood and murky concept of 'karma.'

That is correct. Karma means action. Karma means causality. It has nothing to do with the individual doer, the individual entity because there is no individual entity as the doer.

Q: Are you saying that the whole theory that people who do good works come back to a good rebirth and those who do bad things come back to a lower birth is false?

What you are saying is karma is based on people who do good deeds. What I am saying is good deeds can only happen, just as bad deeds also happen. Whose? Good deeds happen through particular body mind mechanisms and bad deeds happen through certain body-mind organisms. Both good deeds and bad deeds together form the functioning of Totality at that moment. It is only the human being who says, “good deeds, bad deeds.” All are deeds performed, in this life and living by Consciousness, through body-mind organisms according to their natural characteristics.

A psychopath has not chosen to be a psychopath. Who has created the psychopath? He is part of the creation of the Totality of manifestation. There is a lovely poem by Omar Khayam. He speaks of an imperfect pot saying, “People reject me because I am odd shaped. Did the hand of the potter shake when he made me?” Did the psychopath choose to be a psychopath? Did the saint choose to be a saint?

If you're interested in understanding the nature of reality, expanding your awareness of the universe and enriching your personal experience of the unseen realm that is one with perceived reality, then this book belongs in your library. It is as appropriate for the beginner as it is for the more advanced student of mysticism, or devotee of Truth.