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This book is an invitation to find out who you really are, beginning with two simple questions. In moments when you feel very happy, do you also watch yourself being happy? When you happen to get angry, is some part of you totally free of anger? If you answer “yes” to both questions, you can stop reading. You have arrived. You have gone beyond everyday awareness, and this going beyond is what it takes to know who you really are. Self-knowledge will unfold for you every day. In time—or perhaps at this very moment—you will see yourself living in the light. Like the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, you can say, “That I exist is a perpetual surprise.” It would be fascinating to meet you, because your existence no doubt is quite unusual—you might even assume that you are unique. You look around and see that the vast majority of people are simply happy when they are happy, and angry when they are angry. But not you. You see beyond. When I began writing books thirty years ago, there was no question that being happy and getting angry were normal, without the added element of watching yourself. A word like mindfulness wasn’t in the air; meditation was still considered dubious by the average person, and the whole question of higher consciousness was viewed with hard-eyed skepticism. I was a young Boston doctor with a growing family, and my days were consumed with work, servicing a large patient roster and traveling every day between two or more hospitals. When I was happy about a patient with a thyroid condition getting well, did I watch myself being happy? Absolutely not. If the wrong prescription was filled by a careless pharmacist, was a part of me not at all upset, standing by like a silent witness? No. In common with everyone else I knew, I was happy or angry without any mystery about it. But coming from India, I could reach back into my childhood for clues about a different state of being. According to an ancient Upanishad, the human mind is like two birds sitting on a branch. One of the birds is eating the fruit of the tree while the other lovingly looks on. Since I went for some years to a school run by an order of Catholic brothers, there were other clues from a different source, such as Jesus telling his disciples to be “in the world but not of it.” If you Google that phrase, you’ll find a wealth of confusion about what it actually means, but the kernel of the teaching is that there is a difference between buying into worldly life and not buying into it. When you don’t buy into it, Jesus teaches, you are somehow with God.