Book Review - What Am I?

Whether you have been reading and listening to Dr. Shankar for a while or are have just come upon this amazing body of work, you will find this latest offering, the newly released book “What Am I?” to be simply stunning in its clarity. The deeper, yet somehow even simpler expansion of the explanation of what illusory actually means may grab you and transform you into a steady, joy-filled being capable of enjoying and appreciating the illusory rather than coping and negotiating with it.

The beauty of reading and listening to Dr. Shankar is that it works on you continually and you slowly but steadily notice the changes taking place in your day-to-day life. The understanding that the mind does not control life frees you to enjoy life since you do not control it. Until it really hits you that you do not control life, that life is happening to you, that you are part of the flow of life and not separate from it you will continue to search for methods and practices to help you get to what is already here, closer to you than your own breathing. Reading "What Am I?" a few times will make this abundantly clear for the reader.

Repeatedly, but in a delightful variety of ways, Dr. Shankar points out that illusory does not mean that it does not exist. Without a very clear understanding of the nature of the mind we will continue to miss the mark and keep searching for that which was never lost. Life is whole, intelligent, precise, in perfect balance with nothing missing or needed but that cannot be thought about - only lived. The mind and the resultant thinking is just thoughts which are sound, and not the actual living, throbbing, pulsating beauty before you.

It is not enough to talk about love and changing the world and stating that there is only oneness, only consciousness, only being if you do not understand the illusory nature of what you think is happening to you and the world you live in. Diving into the message of Dr. Shankar that this is an optical illusion of light and auditory illusion of sound has been the highlight of existence to date for me. No prior events in my life can hold a candle to this deeper understanding of life for that very understanding allows life to be lived and not dreaded or feared. To go through life with no fear is the very best for only by living fearlessly, adventureously, can you be truly alive - ever fresh and new. "What Am I?" may possibly remove your fears too so that life can be lived from silence and peace not matter what is showing up for you.

Personally, I am so grateful to life for a simple yet precise turn of events which exposed me to the sharing’s of this amazing man -the vehicle for such deep, deep insight into the nature of the illusory and the intelligence it springs forth from so spontaneously and this newest book, "What Am I?" is the clearest and most concise material I have come across. Get a copy, read it a few times and watch as life reveals its magic to you.