[Advaita-l] The book that transformed a Spiritual Teacher

[Sundar Rajan]

Namaskar,


After a long hiatus, I’m back on Advaita-L. A couple of reasons:

First, I had been joking on LinkedIn that I couldn’t tell 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓
from 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐝𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐚𝐭 (Indian snack) until just two months ago. Then I
attended an AI weekend workshop run by folks half my age—or more—and it was
an eye-opener. It sparked my curiosity about using AI as a sidekick for
home projects.

Years ago, I wrote a blog about how a forgotten book (given as a gift) had
transformed a spiritual teacher. I thought it would be a good idea to
convert this story into a visual format—perhaps a video. Shoutout to AI:
The whole process took less than 2 days!

Long story short, here’s the link to the video: https://youtu.be/m3hTBrRE-9M

Second, today happens to be the aradhana of Acharyal—and the book in the
story pertains to Acharyal as well.