A Spiritual Memoir
A memoir of losing himself and finding what can't be lost.
A called-off wedding. A startup to build. A man negotiating terms with God at 3 a.m. — and expected at a pitch meeting the next morning.
"As a little wave in the ocean of waves, know that you are water, Mohit — and not the wave."
About the Book
A called-off wedding. A startup to build. A man negotiating terms with God at 3 a.m. — and expected at a pitch meeting the next morning.
When Mohit Mishra's life pressed hard reset, he wasn't on a retreat. He was building a company, chasing investors, walking out of rooms where he'd been called names, and grieving a future that had just vanished. "I wasn't just heartbroken," he writes. "I was existence-broken." And in that breaking—before he had any words for it—the knot of who he thought he was quietly came loose. The collapse was not only the wound; it was the key. What looked like an ending unlocked the one question that could set him free: Who am I, really, without the story I've been selling to myself?
What follows is intimate, funny, disarmingly honest, and quietly rigorous—part travelogue, part inner therapy, part spiritual memoir. Following the Upanishads, the Buddha's inquiry, Rumi's longing, and the Gita's surrender down to their shared root, Mohit finds every tradition arriving at the same living silence. Unexpected "lanterns" light the way: a Dutch couple who point him to what he is beneath thought; a monk in Kerala who turns scripture into a living mirror; an octogenarian in California whose dining table reveals the oneness beneath religions; ten days of total silence in a German village; a monastery in Rishikesh where the lineage first caught fire; and a Himalayan camp where the highest thought becomes lived clarity.
And at the centre of that silence is one image, first heard from his Dutch lanterns, that lodged itself in the cave of his heart: "As a little wave in the ocean of waves, know that you are water — and not the wave."
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What Readers Say
A rare blend of clarity, humility, and depth. This book doesn't preach; it quietly reorients the way you see yourself.
It takes one on a journey and makes one drop everything. Water, not the wave. There is nothing to forgive, only to thank. Eye openers.
Honest, tender, and authentic. A companion for anyone standing at the edge, wondering what comes next.
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