"Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness." --H.H. the Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness.   So popular and so rarely understood, this Nobel Peace Prize winner and man of great inner peace brings to a general audience the key to a happy life.

In the early nineties, when H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji), an enlightened master in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi, could no longer travel, a flood of westerners came to be with him in Lucknow, India.  He told them to call off their search. He said that they were what they were searching for. All they had to do was keep quiet. "You are happiness. You are peace. You are freedom itself." They heard him. A remarkable number of them awakened, or at least had a glimpse of their true identity.  Their stories are captivating, and through their portrayals of Papaji his living transmission is offered to us.  Intimate first hand accounts from Gangaji, Prashanti, Yudhishtara, Isaac, Mira, Surendra, Sangeeta, Chandra, Yamuna, Neelam and Dasarath.

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