Where does a young girl turn to when she cannot find the answers to these questions? "Spiritual Journey of a Pyramid Yogini" is a brief exposition of the author's journey in meditation, detailing the questions she asked in her initial years and the answers she received through self-experiences.
When the author met her mentor, Master Pallavi, and their Guru Patriji in 2016, her life took a drastic turn. She reached from a logical Mind State to a feeling Soul State. The purpose of this book is to take the reader on the same journey... a journey from "Who am I?" to "What am I?"
Charu Thapliyal divides her time between her Doctoral Research at the Department of Philosophy, Delhi University and as the co-founder and Chief Editor at MB Publishing House. She is a practising Philosophical Counsellor recognized by APPA.
ALL OF THIS goes back to the day I was sifting through books in the school library.
By seventh grade, I had already read all the novels in the fantasy section - stories about witches, wizards, dragons, mermaids, elves, and other magical creatures.
As a child, I loved to read books with fantastical elements in them. I loved to envelop myself in stories that told me anything was possible, that there was more to the world than met the eye, that love was the answer to everything, that magic was real and was within the grasp of an average child like me.
Non-fiction, back then, seemed to be about dry facts, about a material world which I did not understand. I was not aware of a genre like 'Spiritual Non-Fiction' at the time. It would only be years later that I would get to know that throughout my childhood, I was reading the wrong kind of non-fiction and the right kind of fiction, which has culminated in bringing me where I am today.
I was never interested in reading newspapers as a child. I felt much more invigorated when I read about flying saucers or dragons or magic-wielding sorcerers. I felt much more connected to seemingly impossible fantasy worlds than the one I lived in. As with most kids in my generation, I secretly waited for my acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (a fantastical school in the Harry Potter book series where young witches and wizards get their magical training). I can now look back and say with certitude, my letter of acceptance into a magical world did arrive, just not in ways I expected it to.
A few years ago, if you had told me I would be writing a book detailing my metaphysical experiences, I would have dismissed it. On the one hand, all the fantasy books I read as a child gave me hope that a magical world might be possible, but on the other hand, my logical mind dismissed those thoughts as nothing but a childish fantasy.
This tussle between what was true and what was not went on for years with no end in sight. No book, no person seemed to give me the answers I was looking to make sense of life, and myself. Why did I feel so things which were not accepted to be true connected to by the adults around me?
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