Where this came from

The practice underneath this book is Raja Yoga as taught by the Brahma Kumaris, followed by the author for more than ten years.

They did not write this. They have not seen it. It is not an official publication of theirs and should not be taken for one. It is one man's reading of what he was taught, put to a use nobody asked him to put it to, and where it is wrong the fault is his and not theirs.

What was carried over is a handful of things rather than a system: that this belongs in an ordinary evening rather than in a special hour; that the thing which does the work is remembrance and not insight, effort or understanding; that the number is a second and the price is nothing; and that nobody can hand this to anybody else, which is why there is no instruction anywhere in these pages to tell another living soul about it.

Everything else was left where it was found. There is a great deal more of it, including most of what it actually teaches — about where all this is going, and over what span, and what is happening to the world while it does — and none of that is in this book or has been translated into it. What is here is the part a person can test on a Thursday.

There is no address for the tradition anywhere in this book: no centre, no website, nothing to send off for and no next step. They teach it themselves, free, in a great many countries, and if you want to look into it you are perfectly capable of finding them without help from here. If you do, you will find the real thing differs from this book in emphasis and in scope, and you should prefer theirs.

Om Shanti.

It is how the people who taught him say hello, and goodbye. What they mean by it is I am a peaceful soul — that peace is not somewhere a person gets to, but what is there underneath when nothing has been added.