The Weight You Can Put DownAt the back2 min
Where this came from
Nothing in this book needed what is underneath it, and chapter 20 says so in its own words: that some people have a name for it, and an account of where it was before this and where it goes afterwards, and that this book is not going to hand you one.
That still stands, now that you have got this far. If you have a faith of your own, nothing here was competing with it. If you have none, nothing here was waiting until the back to tell you that you ought to.
What is underneath this book is Raja Yoga as taught by the Brahma Kumaris, followed by the author for more than ten years.
That is the whole of the attribution, and it is here because the alternative is letting it look as though it came from nowhere.
And what is not being claimed.
They did not write this. They have not seen it. 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. It is not an official publication of the Brahma Kumaris and should not be taken for one.
There is no address anywhere in this book.
No centre, no website, nothing to send off for, and no next step. That is deliberate. A book that spends twenty-two chapters saying that nothing is asked of you cannot turn round and ask for something on the last page.
If you want to look into it, you are perfectly capable of doing that without help from here, and nobody will know either way.
What was taken from it was a method rather than a doctrine: that this sort of thing belongs in an ordinary day — in the kitchen, in the chair by the window, at a quarter past nine.
Everything else was left where it was found. That includes what they teach about forgiveness, about anger, and about what remembrance can settle. This book does not go to those places. That is his choice and not their teaching, and a reader who meets them later should expect to find all three.
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.
He is not asking you to believe that. It is not a finding about you, there is nothing to do with it, and nothing in the book in front of you rests on it. It is the last thing he has, and he would rather hand it over than keep it back.