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At twenty-five, Andrew Harvey abandoned a career at Oxford to return to his native India. He didn't know why, except to escape the 'concentration camps of reason' and recapture 'the strange and boundless joy I always felt when I thought of India.' At first he was cynical, scoffing at devotees…

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This book changed my life. It showed me it was possible, and OK, to be a literary-minded youth and still embark on a spiritual journey that could lead who knew where. I have read it numerous times and am still caught every time by the gorgeous, clear, poetic writing and the spell-binding storytelling. I love the author’s reckoning with the hidden wisdom of his childhood in India and how far from that he strayed during his youth in England but then managed to reengage with it at a very deep level.

That opened up a profound journey into spirituality for…

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