Overview: Chasing happiness isn’t as important as having a peaceful mind. Once this is understood, happiness follows of its own accord. A wayside companion to help you lead a progressively more peaceful life, The Journey into Oneself: An Exploration of Universal Spirituality by author Gopalakrishnan TC explores the spiritual path of self-awareness that lays bare the root causes of our mental disturbances.

Verdict: As a whole, Universal Spirituality aims to share practical, edifying, and thought-provoking spiritual information. Our desire is to assist visitors on their spiritual journey. The information spans various faith traditions, focusing on universal truths applicable to all humanity.

Prominent spiritual writers have in recent years recognized how the wisdom of ancient ancestors and indigenous cultures can provide breathtaking insights. Although once dismissed, modern science is now confirming these insights.

Within these dutifully-collated pages, author Gopalakrishnan TC not only presents what is true to life and reality (recognizing that understanding of the Ultimate Reality is at all times incomplete), but also what is lovely and inspirational.

Furthermore, along the way, the author exposes paranormal phenomena aimed at taking the reader out of the conventional mindset, telling us that messages from those who’ve undergone such out-of-the-way experiences can transform our lives towards streamlined harmony. One needs only to look in that direction.

Their goal is to not just provide sound information, but also to lift the human spirit and help readers on their path to enlightenment and spiritual transformation. For the wisdom and experience of spiritual teachers from various backgrounds and faith traditions are drawn on as they meet the above criteria.

Fundamentally created to build a better you, what The Journey into Oneself: An Exploration of Universal Spirituality also manages to do is reinforce, to my mind, at least, that Universal Spirituality is simply another name for what Jesus was trying to teach.

Consider some of his words as recorded by the gospel writers - such as This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. (John 15:12); In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. (Matt 7:12); and amongst others Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. (Matt 10:39) - and including the gospel of Thomas, it clearly, and lovingly spells out the transformative path of a Universal Spirituality.

Just as Gopalakrishnan’s very own The Journey into Oneself: An Exploration of Universal Spirituality does, and so I highly recommend you make this book your next purchase, and then take a quiet moment, sit back and willingly immerse yourself with its absorbent prose.

About the Author - Gopalakrishnan TC has been a Coastal Engineering Research Scientist by way of profession. However, reading spiritual literature has been his hobby from young days. Based on his exposure to the messages of Masters like Ramana Maharishi, J Krishnamurti, Meister Eckhart and Eckhart Tolle, he self published In Quest of the Deeper Self in 2007. He lives in Tamil Nadu, India.

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