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Kaveeta Oberoi Kaul
My first book is now live on Amazon. Mastering life with the Master.
It feels strange to write that sentence, because for a long time this was not something I thought of as a “future announcement.” It was simply writing — scattered thoughts, long reflections, silent processing of life as it unfolded. There was no clear moment when it became a book in my mind. It slowly crossed that invisible line where private meaning begins to take form.
Today, it exists outside of me.
The book is dedicated to Swami Kriyananda. And by a quiet coincidence that I did not plan or engineer, it has gone live on his centenary birthday. I do not want to overstate that or assign too much interpretation to it, but I do notice it. Some things arrive with timing that feels larger than intention. This is one of those moments.
What is inside these pages is not a theory or a conclusion. It is not an attempt to define life in a fixed way. It is closer to lived reflection — questions that stayed open for a long time, observations that came through experience, and moments of clarity that did not arrive all at once but gradually, over years.
Writing it was not linear. It did not follow a strict plan. There were phases where it felt almost complete, and then phases where I would return and see it differently again. In that sense, it became less about producing a final answer and more about allowing something to settle into form without forcing it.
There is a particular vulnerability in releasing something like this. When something is private, it is protected by silence. Once it becomes public, it begins to live its own life — interpreted in ways you cannot fully control, received differently by each reader, sometimes understood deeply, sometimes only partially, and sometimes not at all. That is part of the nature of sharing.
Still, I felt it was time to let it go.
If there is one hope I carry, it is that the book meets each reader where they are, not where I began writing it from. We do not all arrive at the same questions at the same time in life. A book, at its best, becomes a companion rather than an instruction. Something that sits quietly beside the reader and reflects back something they already carry within themselves.
I am grateful for the process of writing it, even when it was uncertain, even when it took longer than expected, and even when I was not sure how it would eventually take shape. And I am equally aware that now the book no longer belongs only to me in the way it once did. It belongs to whoever chooses to open it and spend time with it.
For those who read it, thank you for being part of its journey from inner thought to shared form.
Mastering Life With The Master: Moving from the ordinary to the extraordinary, Living the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda https://a.co/d/05dY0iP0









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