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Review of 'Home at Last'

Sarada Chiruvolu, the author of ‘Home at Last,’ left a pharmaceutical career to pursue a spiritual calling. She dedicates her book to her primary guru, Sri Sri Amma Karunamayi. ‘Home at Last’ is part-memoir, part-guide to spiritual enlightenment. She makes the point that spirituality is not something that can be achieved only “by those who leave their homes to reside in ashrams, monasteries, or caves. It is very much within everyone’s reach.” She says, “the purpose of the book is to delineate the Truth pertaining to the spiritual dimension of life as I have experienced it.” She goes on, “Ultimately, this book describes how the enlightened consciousness navigates one’s given life and integrates that life with higher consciousness after attaining realization. This is not a “how to” book in the conventional sense, mainly because the path to enlightenment can’t be laid out like the directions in a cookbook, step by step with exact measurements….however, the book does pro