Letting go of attachments is the central theme of this book. Living in the modern world, we more and more clearly feel the abyss between present well-being and the uncertainty of the future — and this abyss grows wider day by day. Many of us increasingly recognize the need to get rid of attachments and lead our life along a spiritual path.
The author of this book, coming from the upper ranks of society, describes the path he has walked through the experience of many great partings. On this path, he must constantly reconsider a great number of truths that seemed, at first glance, unshakable — truths that once determined his choice — the way of life of a monk in one of the oldest spiritual traditions of the world.
The book is based on the diaries of Shachinandana Swami, written by him during a pilgrimage through the Himalayas in the autumn of 1997. The reader will discover many secrets of sacred mountains, will look from within at the spiritual life of their inhabitants, and will also see how, for the sake of a full spiritual life, a person is ready to cast off the shackles of egoism.