How this book was made

Who wrote it. Somebody who has practised this for over ten years, as a practitioner and not a teacher. That is the whole of the standing behind these pages, and it is why every chapter ends by telling you where to check them.

Two taught courses, in two languages. One in English, six sessions, about nine and a half hours; one in Tamil, fifteen sessions, about fifteen hours. Different lengths, the same syllabus. Where both carried a subject, this book treats it as the course rather than as one teacher's reading; where only one carried it, the chapter says so or leaves it out. Neither teacher is quoted anywhere in this book. The structure and the emphasis are theirs. The sentences are mine, and so is any mistake in them.

The organisation's own published pages. The eight doctrinal areas under Concepts and Conversations at brahmakumaris.org, read in full on 5 November 2026. Where this book quotes the organisation it quotes those pages and says which one, and every chapter ends by telling you where to check it.

The murlis, and why none of them is here. The tradition's daily study text has an official searchable archive at murlisearch.brahmakumaris.org. A sentence from it can only be used honestly once the whole page it came from has been read, and the pages around it. This book quotes none of it. If a later edition does, the quotations will carry their dates beside them. Nothing here rests on an authority you cannot check for yourself.

Whose fault it is where it is wrong. Mine. The Brahma Kumaris have not seen this book, did not ask for it and are not answerable for it. Where it is accurate the credit is theirs; where it is wrong, I have put it wrong.

The other books, and where each one can be found.