Daughters of Meerabai: Portraits of Unsung Women Mystics chronicles the lives of five awakened women who walked the mystic path across three centuries of India’s history.

From Old Delhi to Darjeeling, and from Mumbai to Rishikesh, these women—sants, yoginis, bhaktas and mediums—chart their own paths to awakening. A bride is beckoned by her guru and she steps away from the marriage altar; a young widow weeps in darkness and eventually finds the divine in yogic silence; a wife leaves a loveless marriage to return to her eternal husband, Krishna; a student walks out of college straight into the arms of the Lord; a middle-aged mother loses her son to a fatal accident and her love becomes her sadhana that compels him to return with messages from the other side.

With revelations and lessons about falling, failing and rising again, this book is also a glimpse into the author’s own intimate journey of healing and of discovering the true meaning of life, death and the truth that lies beyond.