CONTENTS: Foreword by Sudhir Sopory, Photo Credits, List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Bhumika: The Ground, Part I: BEGINNINGS AND EDUCATION IN EUROPE (1940-1967): 1. Birth: Between Harmony and War, 2. Ancestral Roots, 3. Persecution and Refuge in Grossarl, 4. Post-war, We Are Poor, 5. Childhood and Music Education, 6. Teenage: Fall at Monchsberg, 7. At Crossroads: Beginning University, 8. A Fateful Meeting with Raimon Panikkar, 9. Rome: A Catholic Initiation, 10. First Immersion in India, 11. Preparation towards Doctorate, 12. A Retreat in Patmos, 13. Līlā: Doctorate Completed, Part II: EXPLORING INDIAN TRADITIONS: ART & SPIRITUALITY: 14. Beginnings in India, 15. In the Presence of Saints and Sages, 16. Yogasūtras and PY Deshpande, 17. Love of Sanskrit: Learning from the Pandits, 18. Making of the Vedic Experience, 19. Banaras: City of Music, 20. HWL Poonja and the Lucknow Adventure, 21. Transitions in Banaras, 22. Abhishiktananda’s Fulfilment, 23. Alice Boner and the Art of Odisha, 24. Return to Europe, 25. Vienna and Indology, 26. Final Years with Parents, 27. Shivamurthy in Vienna, 28. Towards a New Freedom, 29. A Transformative Retreat (1978), 30. Return to Banaras: Settling in Assi Ghat, 31. Pilgrimage to Kedarnath, 32. Towards Kashmir, Part III: FULFILMENT IN KASHMIR SAIVISM (1986-): 33. First Meeting with Swami Lakshman Joo, 34. 1986: An Eventful Year, 35. Saiva Diksa: Initiation, 36. Yajña: Integrating Inner and Outer, 37. Kyoto: Spirituality in Interfaith Dialogue, 38. Saiva Centres in South India, 39. Life at Ishvar Ashram (1988-‘91), 40. Sharika Devi’s Liberation, 41. Mahasamadhi of a Jīvanmukta, 42. Phulchatti: The Flowery Roof, 43. Sailing on Two Boats: IGNCA and Alice Boner, 44. Spiritual Anchors in Europe, 45. Interreligious Dialogue in Practice, 46. Kailash: The Archetypal Pilgrimage, 47. Beginning of University Teaching, 48. Continuing the Tradition, 49. Sarada Kula: My Students, 50. Enchanted by Mystical Poetry, 51. IIAS: Scholarship in Shimla, 52. Overcoming Suffering and Death, 53. The Essence of Trika, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.