{"product_id":"poems-on-nisargadatta-maharaj-devendra-kailash-mehta-9798248742622","title":"Poems on Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am Before the World, The Unborn Light, and the Vastness Without Name","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the truth you are seeking is prior to your name, your story, even your sense of being a person?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems on Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am Before the World, The Unborn Light, and the Vastness Without Name\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical immersion into the uncompromising clarity of nondual insight. These poems do not decorate the teaching. They strip it bare. Moving through smoke-filled rooms in Bombay, through silence between breaths, through the subtle doorway of the sense \"I am,\" this collection invites the reader beyond philosophy into direct recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere you will find verse shaped by inquiry rather than consolation. The language is spare, luminous, and exact-echoing the radical simplicity of a teaching that refuses to comfort illusion. Each poem circles the same essential discovery from a different angle: you are not the body, not the mind, not even consciousness itself. You are that prior reality in which all appears and disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for readers drawn to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eNondual spirituality and Advaita-inspired insight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemplative poetry rooted in direct self-inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eRadical teachings that dissolve the illusion of the separate self\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuiet, uncompromising spiritual clarity without sentimentality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead slowly. Pause often. Let the words point beyond themselves. What remains when even the final concept falls is not an idea-but the ordinary miracle of what is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlamma Poetica Publishing in collaboration with Devendra Kailash Mehta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevendra Kailash Mehta grew up in Mumbai within walking distance of the old neighborhoods where seekers once climbed narrow staircases to listen in silence. Though trained in architecture, his real education began with a weathered copy of \u003ci\u003eI Am That\u003c\/i\u003e, whose uncompromising directness ignited a lifelong devotion to Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching. Mehta's writing arises from that love-an affection not for personality, but for the fierce clarity that cuts through illusion without compromise. His poems are offered as gestures of gratitude to a teaching that demands nothing and gives everything: the simple recognition of what we are before the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Devendra Kailash Mehta,Flamma Poetica Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248742622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Devendra Kailash Mehta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659749699839,"sku":"9798248742622","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poems-on-nisargadatta-maharaj-devendra-kailash-mehta-9798248742622","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}