In this book, you can look upon me as a travel agent for the world within. I will be showing you some beautiful posters of spiritual achievement - Sri Ramakrishna, Saint Teresa of Avila, Mahatma Gandhi - and I will be describing some of the most breathtaking inner landscapes. The captions are of a sort you will not find in anyother travel agent's brochures: "Here you see rising a sun which will never set." Whenever I speak or write about such sights, everybody gets interested, because all of us are secretly longing for such adventures. "Where can we see this kind of splendor? Are you talking about Helsinki, in the land of the midnight sun?" "Not at all," I say. "That's still the same old sun you see in Buffalo." And I recite a marvelous stanza from the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: If a thousand suns were to rise together, The blaze of their light would resemble a little, The supreme splendor of the Lord within. That is the glory of the Self within you, within us all, and the journey inwards to find this Self is the greatest adventure known to mankind.

This is the great realization that comes to all those who have become at home in the world within. No external novelty is needed; when you travel within, every day is fresh with discoveries and challenges, inspiration and profound peace. The scenes I paint for you in the following pages are but a fleeting glimpse of the continuingadventure that awaits you as you enter this world.