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The Gods Were Never Outside: Self-Realisation Through Hindu Mythology Vol.1

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ISBN: 9789377706098 , 9377706092
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The Gods Were Never Outside invites you to see Hindu mythology not as ancient folklore, but as a precise, encoded map of the human journey towards self-realisation and enlightenment. Through the timeless stories of Ganesha's birth, his race against Kartikeya, and the mouse that became his vehicle, this book opens a path towards that same Nothingness-the Shunya (Zero) and towards the path of the Third Eye, where Shiva resides. It explores a truth that Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) has, paradoxically, both concealed as its deepest secret and revealed all along.

Why an elephant's head, and not any other? Why do we say "Rest in Peace" for those who have departed-and where exactly is that place of peace? how does human consciousness move beyond... thought itself?

Behind every symbol lies a map-a map of Kundalini, the Nadis, and the energy of the universe flowing through the human body-waiting to be understood. This book decodes what these stories have always been encoding and presents the author's own direct meditative experiences as a personal testament to the reality of this path.