In Search for The Truth

About the Book

Though man is not aware of this reality, his soul intrinsically thirsts for Truth. He is born with this innate desire, and he drinks water from every well he thinks can quench his thirst. Unfortunately, he still remains unsatisfied, and departs from this world often thirstier than his first entrance. The question is: can man discover this reality on his own? Can he realize that nothing but the union with God will slake his thirst permanently and bring him abiding peace? Also, can he reach Reality and Truth through his own brilliance? Can he desire to know God without God willing it first? And can he reach Him through his own efforts and endeavors? In Search for the Truth discusses this subject in the light of scriptures and exposes many mysteries hidden in the words of The Upanishads that contain the answers to these questions. The contents of this book are the descriptions of authorÕs those spiritual recollections that illustrate the striking scenery and overwhelming pleasantry he saw along the way while traveling towards the providence of enlightenment, the beauty and splendor of which he found utterly overwhelming. The truth is that these words are the composed exposures of those sketches of his spiritual development that depict the details of his personal inner struggle and growth while wandering in the wilderness of world of spirituality, and they tell the bits and pieces of story of such man, whose desperate search for light after his life was doomed to darkness, became the finding of the vision of the higher Truth. So these words are the witness of the fact that beyond the mundane life of a secular mind lies the extraordinary life of the sacred soul; that beyond the song of passion of this world, echoes the melody of love of eternal empire; that beyond the elegance of outer physics shines forth the beauty, grace and the elegance of the inner being; that beyond the journey of the egocentric physical self begins the voyage of the soul; that beyond the glamour and glory of human spirit lies the beauty and splendor of the Spirit of his Creator. Thus, this book is a documentation of those delightful destinations that a man passed though while desperately searching for truth and looking for God and is a sincere and very serious synopsis of those revelations that a man received from God in His unending graces. It is a collection of things of high wisdom that he learned in the awakening of his inner being and gathered together as experiences of the unfolding of the Self within. It is an assortment of those views that were conceived by him through his inner vision as he traveled the unknown trails of spirituality and is a gathering of those glorified images of heavenly views that he saw while he was wandering in the magnificence of spiritual wonderment.

About the Author

Born and raised in India as a Hindu, Vijai Tiwari immigrated to the United States in the early seventies. After receiving his masterÕs degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, he spent several years working in the technical sector until he joined The Boeing Company at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the late eighties, where he launched his career in space technology. Since that time, his numerous professional accomplishments have been in NASA-related projects in support of both Shuttle and International Space Station programs. Though the author has never been a strong religious adherent, when life presented him with questions that a rote reliance on conventional dogma could not address in any meaningful sense, he undertook a search for those answers that could be found nowhere else but in the sanctuary of God. The truth of this singular (and at the same time perennial) awakening has become the theme of VijaiÕs writings. His first book is an introduction to the Sacred Reality and Truth that was revealed to him in the timeless tradition of enlightened vision. Contained in these chapters are direct spiritual insights that are not bound by mere historically based [mediated] theologies but instead spring from a direct [immediate] experience of one manÕs passionate and personal search for the Divine. The author believes that institutionalized religion actually offers very little for man in its currently misappropriated and misunderstand form, where it is, in fact, frequently a hindrance to the spiritual journey. While pedestrian religiosity can offer a specious consolation, of sorts, it is not the path the great sages and saints have traveled before us, and it seldom leads to our true spiritual destination--enlightenment and liberation. Though in many religious traditions the human life given us by the Creator famously includes Òfreewill,Ó ironically, the pathway to Salvation through divine grace cannot be entered upon lest man first be willing to fully--indeed joyfully--surrender his life to God.