India: Mirror of Truth: A Seven Year Pilgrimage

Steve Briggs

India: Mirror of Truth is the true story of an American Purusha (celibate devotee of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) sent to India by Maharishi to teach meditation. The author's life-transforming seven-year spiritual odyssey took him from the coastal waters of Kerala to the high Tibetan plateau. Along the way, he encountered saints and shamans, politicians and pundits, astrologers and ascetics, villagers and artisans. He visited ancient holy sites, met swamis living at the source of the Ganges, participated in arcane purificatory rituals, experienced the excitement of thirty million pilgrims at the Kumbha Mela as guest of a maharaja, initiated India's elite into meditation, and shared the company of lamas at Tibetan monasteries in Ladakh in an awesome journey that is as culturally rich as it is spiritually stirring.

Former University of Arizona athletic star and tennis coach, Steve Briggs, spent 21 years on Purusha, his last seven teaching Indian managers to meditate. After seven years teaching meditation in India, the author settled into a remote ashram in the Himalaya before returning to the west in 2002 where he wrote India: Mirror of Truth. Steve lives in Fairfield, Iowa with his wife, Bhumi, and her son.