Surprised by Grace

Surprised By Grace is a true story of spiritual awakening. It is a beautiful story, a love story of Self falling in love with Self, as teacher, as all of life. Simply told and based on direct experience, it dispels many myths about enlightenment and about gurus. It also provides compelling answers to such questions as whether or not one needs a teacher, why deep spiritual experiences can appear to be lost, and what happens as the identification with mind and personality is cut. Most importantly, it reveals that Realization is possible here and now.

Amber began her spiritual quest as a young college student in the late sixties. After a quarter century of meditation, yoga, and intense seeking that took her all over the world, it became obvious that enlightenment had remained a dream, a concept, existing in the mind only. Into the darkest and most frustrated point of her spiritual yearning came a transmission of Grace so powerful that it not only stopped the search, but revealed the searcher to be an illusion. This transmission took the form of an American teacher named Gangaji, from the lineage of one of the most respected sages of this century, Shri Ramana Maharishi, and continuing through his direct disciple Shri H. W. L. Poonjaji, Gangaji's teacher.