Excerpts
Meeting Cartouche … chapter 1
Children of the Revolution … chapter 1
We were on our way home, moving toward the Light or so we believed.
Spiritual Che Guevara … from chapter 1
“Ah, if only the whole world spoke English, no?” He could be very sarcastic.
I Dream India into Existence … from chapter 2
Shiva like(s) you…
The Stories of Gods, Yogis, & Shamans … chapter 2
Rajasthan … chapter 3
The Goddess Amloda … from chapter 3
Naga Baba Hari Puri Ji Maharaj … chapter 3
An Old Madman Like Me … from chapter 3
“Or is it that you just came for the waters?”
Testing the Guru … from chapter 3
“I made them naked…” from chapter 3
Guru Shishya Parampara … from chapter 3
Guru Mantra … from chapter 3
Hanuman … from chapter 6
The unthinkableness of Hari Puri Baba’s story tickled me.
Planets cursing heavenly nymphs in the world of gods! A thought phallus!
The Signet Ring … from chapter 6
Story of Hanuman, not found in Ramayan. Time is merely an illusory stage on which the theater of repetition is performed
“I’m afraid you don’t understand,’ said Hanuman, ‘I need Ram’s real signet ring…
The Names of the Gods … from chapter 6
The Crows …. from chapter 6
The Language of Crows
Adi Shankara’s Debate with Madana Mishra … chapter 6
Varanasi AKA Kashi Puri … from chapter 7
Baba Ram Nath Aghori … from chapter 7
The Churning of the Ocean … from chapter 7
“Take it, Take it All!” … from chapter 7
My First Kumbh Mela … from chapter 8
…and the party hadn’t yet begun.
The Sacrament of Knowledge … from chapter 8
Story that can’t be contained in a book or possessed by any one person.
“Hey, You with No Eyes” …from Chapter 8
Funerary Fires …from Chapter 8
Foreigner … chapter 9
Pandit Ji would soon perform my last rites.
Who was the I who was renouncing?
Planting a Healing Mantra … chapter 11
Forty Days Later … chapter 11
Sandhya Puri … chapter 12
The Nectar of Immortality … chapter 13
He taught me about the greatest yogis, and singled out Shiva, Dattatreya, Ravan, Patanjali, and Panini. I found it very curious, even disturbing, that they were also the master grammarians of India.
Sacred Geography … chapter 13
It is sacred geography.
The practice of mantra is not so much a repetition of formulas, but yoga of the mouth…
Banished … chapter 13
“Shhh-sh! I am going to die, and I don’t want you to be here when it happens so you must go….
Gangotri Baba … chapter 14
And he was quite mad but I felt perfectly at home.
Baba’s Ayurveda … chapter 14
Waiting for Tim Leary … chapter 14
The Samadhi … chapter 15
“Should I have another statue made for your tomb?” I asked him.
Kundalini … chapter 16
Unbecoming … chapter 16
Three Gunas … chapter 16
Hidden Plays of the Universe … chapter 16
Hanuman Darshan … from chapter 18
Deconstruction … from chapter 18
“The sage reflects and envelops the world in which he finds himself.”
Like the heavens filled with sparkles he knows The stars shine within him; the world is prose.
Pilgrimage … from chapter 19
Magic happens anywhere worlds meet.
Those locations to which one makes a pilgrimage are called tirthas, crossing-over places.
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Endorsements
"This book will entertain and enlighten you. A bold journey which explores the true intersections of Eastern and Western thought." Deepak Chopra
"Rampuri's search has carried him into the very depths of one of the great ancient wisdom lineages of India. He has gone where very few Westerners have gone…" - Krishna Das
"An authentic and fascinating account of a western yogi who has made India his home for his body and his spirit. The book is bound to challenge your view of reality and of the spiritual life. It is not just the story of a personal quest but of a journey beyond the western civilizational mindset to the real India of the yogis where the limitations of both our cultural ideas and our egos are continually exposed. An adventure into a different type of reality." -
David Frawley
