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Book Review – Living the Practice: Volume 1: The Way of Love by Rohini Ralby

Living the Practice: Volume 1: The Way of Love by Rohini Ralby is an insightful and engrossing integrated spiritual book. Rohini takes it forward from where it was left in Walking Home with Baba: The Heart of Spiritual Practice. Rohini had been a true disciple of Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa for around eight years. From him, she learnt the true ways of love and a purposeful life, free from fear and ignorance.


The book is abundant with tools and techniques that advance one on the path of unperturbed spirituality, yet its USP lies in Fourchotomy, which further can be used to get true self love. The below excerpt distinguishes love from vibrations, our hedonistic unbridled desires as when repetitively happen take precedence over the meaning of love. We begin losing our self in the monotony of vibrations.

“First, we have to feel the vibration. Not just when it has blossomed forth, but when we are at rest. The vibration is always there just under the surface; we have to become aware of it. Just feel it and make it no big deal.

Next, we have to call it what it is. We have unconsciously called it “love.” Now we have to discover what it actually is. Everyone has a different vibration they call “love.”

Fourchotomy is a way ahead than dichotomy… it works on honest answers from within and leverages the power of feelings that exist between two groups or things that are completely opposite to and different from each other. Rohini lucidly explains as how to use a Fourchotomy. However, it demands at the first place honest answers without hesitation and without spinning definitions.

Living the Practice is centered around truth, to know our true nature. The author in acquaintance of her Guru gained mastery on inward experiences and understanding over external observations and reactions. The book is sublte, deep, and highly valuable resource for people looking for absolute spirituality in their life.

Right at the beginning, three levels are mentioned to attain a peaceful loving life that includes first level as senses, mind as a second, and heart as a third. Whatever comes from heart is reckoned pure and undefiled.

Shrunken self, Kashmir Shaivism, and non-dualism (god as one power) plays a cynosure in the book and anecdotes that the author shares from her life, from India and elsewhere.

The content of the book relives the teachings of Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa. Rohini, being a true follower, imparts what she learns. She is into spiritual practices for a long time. And this book serves as a guiding usher in the world where things look bright and vibrated but in reality truth is hidden in the silhouettes of darkness.

Living the Practice by Rohini Ralby is a resourceful book for serious spiritual seekers. It is way beyond than the expression of words, one can feel being roped in with the teachings of Baba. However, to get it fully poured in your heart and mind, you must go slow with this book. It is not coming on its own, you have to be with it all the time. Gradually…yes it works for you.

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