The Searching Eye- Finding Spiritual Meaning In A Messy World

A mother who has to stay awake throughout the night to care for her newborn can do so with far lesser frustration than a woman who has to stay awake because of insomnia. When we know that the distresses we face are meaningful, not meaningless, we can persevere better. And when we see life itself as meaningful and purposeful, we can perform more and progress faster in our ongoing spiritual evolution.

To orient our search for meaning, the world's wisdom-texts serve as time-honored guides. The Searching Eye draws from the ancient wisdom-text Bhagavad-gita and the broader bhakti-yoga tradition of which the Gita has become a central text. Discussing how the wisdom therein is relevant in our contemporary context is The Searching Eye's purpose.

Each article here is a stand-alone piece; so, you can start with whichever topic interests you. Additionally, the book weaves the articles together in a three-part progression. Building on the theme of the searching eye, the book's three parts are: the world, the light and the vision. When an eye searches for something, it has an arena where it searches, a conceptual framework with which it searches and an understanding it arrives at through searching.

In the context of this book, the arena for the search is the world, specifically the contemporary world where we seek to make sense of things. Accordingly, the first section entitled "The world" examines contemporary events such as the suicide of a world famous comedian or the accusation of sexual abuse against a campaigner against sexual abuse.

**Contents and Sample Pages**