O Dharmaputri!

Indian Heart, Yogic Wings

Let’s face it. Every professional is also a child or a parent or a cousin, neighbour to someone, a human in a society. Being a good, well rounded human is essential to one’s professional success.

This is what went though my mind in the autumn of 2024, as we prepared for our recently turned adult daughter, Uma, to go to university. What advise for life could we give her? How could we ensure that she wouldn’t make at least the same mistakes that we did? How could we help her find balance in her life? How could we pass on the ethos of one of the world’s oldest continuing traditions? After all, didn’t Aristotle supposed to have said something like ‘good parents educate children well, as they not only give them life, but also the art of living well.’

My wife Vidhya and I set out to write a letter to Uma, expressing our thoughts and some guidance on life. That letter has become a book for the world, on Dharma (a philosophy of righteous living), and Yoga (a process that helps in living happily and performing our duties in resonance with our environment and the situation). 

Even if you’re not Indian by ethnicity, you’ll find several universal themes explored here. After all didn’t Aristotle say that ‘it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’