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Why Do We Exist?: A Map to Explore Life the Way It Was Intended
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ISBN10: 9360122041
ISBN13: 9789360122041
Publisher: Ashwith Viswakumar
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789360122041
Publisher: Ashwith Viswakumar
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
WHY DO WE EXIST?
A Map to Explore Life the Way It Was Intended
If we all eventually arrive at the same destination, regardless of nationality, beliefs, achievements, job titles, bank balances, or social status, then life must be about something more than simply moving from one milestone to the next.
A Map to Explore Life the Way It Was Intended
If we all eventually arrive at the same destination, regardless of nationality, beliefs, achievements, job titles, bank balances, or social status, then life must be about something more than simply moving from one milestone to the next.
Human beings are handed two extraordinary instruments at birth: a body and a mind.
We spend years learning how to operate computers, vehicles, smartphones, businesses, and increasingly sophisticated technologies. Yet the very instruments through which every single thought, emotion, relationship, success, disappointment, and moment of life is experienced often remain the least understood.
What if much of our psychological struggle comes not from life itself, but from misunderstanding the instruments through which life is experienced?
Why Do We Exist? is not another self-improvement project, nor does it ask you to adopt a new belief system. Instead, it is a direct, practical guide to understanding the hidden mechanisms through which we interpret reality.
Drawing upon ocean voyages, leadership under pressure, Kriya Yoga, self-enquiry, family life, and ordinary human experience, Ashwith Viswakumar invites readers to investigate the relationship between thought, identity, judgment, resistance, curiosity, and the timeless question of what it means to live well.
Inside these pages, you will explore:
The greatest discoveries are never found in accumulating more second-hand answers.
They begin when we become clear enough, and brave enough, to look directly at the raw experience of being human
We spend years learning how to operate computers, vehicles, smartphones, businesses, and increasingly sophisticated technologies. Yet the very instruments through which every single thought, emotion, relationship, success, disappointment, and moment of life is experienced often remain the least understood.
What if much of our psychological struggle comes not from life itself, but from misunderstanding the instruments through which life is experienced?
Why Do We Exist? is not another self-improvement project, nor does it ask you to adopt a new belief system. Instead, it is a direct, practical guide to understanding the hidden mechanisms through which we interpret reality.
Drawing upon ocean voyages, leadership under pressure, Kriya Yoga, self-enquiry, family life, and ordinary human experience, Ashwith Viswakumar invites readers to investigate the relationship between thought, identity, judgment, resistance, curiosity, and the timeless question of what it means to live well.
Inside these pages, you will explore:
- The Illusion of Control: Why the mind's frantic search for certainty creates the very psychological struggle it hopes to eliminate.
- The Human Instrument: How the body and mind function under the hood, and why understanding their design changes the way we navigate daily challenges.
- The Mirror of Judgment: How much of our suffering stems from arguing with reality, rather than from reality itself.
- The Shift in Identity: Why radical freedom has less to do with accumulating a shiny new spiritual identity and more to do with seeing through the empty baggage we have carried for decades.
- The Ordinary Miracle: How active curiosity, clarity, and an intimate familiarity with the mind can transform everyday life without needing to escape it.
The greatest discoveries are never found in accumulating more second-hand answers.
They begin when we become clear enough, and brave enough, to look directly at the raw experience of being human
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