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The Seeker's Path
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ISBN13: 9798196905582
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Seeker's Path
What does it cost to become the person you always wanted to be?
Arun leaves his Nepali hill village at twelve years old carrying two things: his father's quiet wisdom and his own burning ambition. By the time he is a man, he has built the life he dreamed of wealth, influence, recognition, the power he watched his good father be denied. He has achieved everything.
What does it cost to become the person you always wanted to be?
Arun leaves his Nepali hill village at twelve years old carrying two things: his father's quiet wisdom and his own burning ambition. By the time he is a man, he has built the life he dreamed of wealth, influence, recognition, the power he watched his good father be denied. He has achieved everything.
And yet something essential has been lost along the way.
The Seeker's Path is the story of what that something is - and the long, difficult journey to find it again.
Set against the vivid landscape of Nepal, monsoon-soaked terraced fields, the ancient temples of Bhaktapur, the Bagmati River at dawn - this is a novel about ambition and its costs. About the gap between the person we intend to become and the person success makes us. About whether it is possible to move through the modern world without being consumed by it.
For Readers who ask the harder questions
Drawing on the living wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist non-attachment, and the Vedantic vision of the self beyond ego, The Seeker's Path weaves ancient insight into thoroughly contemporary experience. But this is no spiritual manual. Arun is not a saint. He is a man who wanted the right things and pursued them in the wrong way and who must find his way back not through retreat or renunciation, but through the harder path of full engagement with life, held lightly.
Readers of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha will recognise the journey. Readers of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance will feel the weight of structural injustice that sets it in motion. Readers of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist will find here the same elemental question - but pursued with greater moral complexity and more honest reckoning.
What this novel asks
Can a person succeed in the modern world without being spiritually destroyed by it?
Can you build without grasping? Love without demanding? Achieve without losing yourself in achievement?
The Seeker's Path does not offer easy answers. It offers something better: a story so honestly told, so richly grounded in place and culture and the texture of lived experience, that readers will find their own answers waiting inside it.
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The Seeker's Path is the story of what that something is - and the long, difficult journey to find it again.
Set against the vivid landscape of Nepal, monsoon-soaked terraced fields, the ancient temples of Bhaktapur, the Bagmati River at dawn - this is a novel about ambition and its costs. About the gap between the person we intend to become and the person success makes us. About whether it is possible to move through the modern world without being consumed by it.
For Readers who ask the harder questions
Drawing on the living wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist non-attachment, and the Vedantic vision of the self beyond ego, The Seeker's Path weaves ancient insight into thoroughly contemporary experience. But this is no spiritual manual. Arun is not a saint. He is a man who wanted the right things and pursued them in the wrong way and who must find his way back not through retreat or renunciation, but through the harder path of full engagement with life, held lightly.
Readers of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha will recognise the journey. Readers of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance will feel the weight of structural injustice that sets it in motion. Readers of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist will find here the same elemental question - but pursued with greater moral complexity and more honest reckoning.
What this novel asks
Can a person succeed in the modern world without being spiritually destroyed by it?
Can you build without grasping? Love without demanding? Achieve without losing yourself in achievement?
The Seeker's Path does not offer easy answers. It offers something better: a story so honestly told, so richly grounded in place and culture and the texture of lived experience, that readers will find their own answers waiting inside it.
Perfect for
- Readers of literary fiction with spiritual or philosophical depth
- Anyone who has achieved what they wanted and felt unexpectedly empty
- The South Asian diaspora and readers drawn to Nepali and Himalayan culture
- Those exploring mindfulness, meaning, and the relationship between worldly success and inner life
- Fans of Siddhartha, The Alchemist, A Fine Balance, and The Kite Runner
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