When a vision paralyzes his body and threatens to destroy everything he loves, a scientist must climb a sacred peak to reclaim his life slipping through his hands, before his children lose their father and his career and reputation are ruined by the inexplicable. Thus begins Jiva’s journey through the ancient teachings of advaita vedanta, tantra, and yoga, told through his lived experience of a seeker’s transformation. Like the original Upanishads, which weave philosophical truth into story and dialogue, this book carries its wisdom through narrative: the protagonist Jiva’s journey illustrates the teaching. The Seven Steps, each an aphorism from advaita philosophy, are elucidated through short reflective passages and form the skeleton on which the story is built— but the meat of the book is the fiction.

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Narrator info: Narrated by the author Dr. Shankar Subramaniam

Estimated listening time: 8 hours, audiobook sample