Some of my friends asked me – “Where are the references for what you have described?” I thought I’d better answer these questions, since some of you may want to know the same. There is some research on the connection between religion and science, but it is still in its nascent stage, so I haven’t used any material from it. When I wrote this book, it wasn’t my intention to provide you a meta-analysis of religious, philosophical and scientific data. I rather thought to put together pertinent information, add my inputs and let you conclude.

My thirty years of experience in clinical guiding and counseling has, of course, added to this book; for many families I have been a de facto guide, and being put in that role, I got to learn a good deal about human life from their experiences.

In the year 2000, I took up learning, and later, teaching Sanskrit at the Sanskrit BhashaSanstha, a teaching institution with 5 branches and more than 5000 life members in Maharashtra, India. The teaching included works on ancient Hindu philosophy and I have woven some of those principles into the book. I’ve balanced this with equal information on other major religions from standard open sources. In the mid-nineties, a group of doctors in Mumbai were chosen to undergo training by the Indian Society of Applied Behavioral Scientists (ISABS); I was a part of this group and the training included a personal growth lab, training on appreciative enquiry and on certain organizational behavioral models. Some of these concepts have been adapted here.