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Before You Call Yourself Spiritual: A Radical Journey from Ego to Śiva

by Himanshu Dixit

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Before You Call Yourself Spiritual is an invitation to question the identity of the one who seeks truth, awakening, and freedom. What if the person you call “me”—your name, body, personality, history, beliefs, achievements, wounds, and roles—is not the whole of who you are? Through forty carefully crafted inquiries, this book turns attention inward to examine the architecture of ego: the identities we defend, the beliefs we inherit, the pain we carry, the patterns we repeat, and the external validation we seek. Rather than offering another spiritual identity to adopt, it asks you to look directly at your own experience. Drawing primarily from Kashmir Shaivism and related non-dual philosophies, the book explores consciousness, awareness, Śiva, Śakti, Cit, Spanda, Pratyabhijñā, Prakāśa, and Vimarśa—not as doctrines to accept, but as pointers for investigation. This is not a book about becoming a better version of yourself. It is an invitation to question the assumption that something essential is missing in the first place. Read slowly. Question honestly. Look beyond borrowed conclusions. You may begin by asking, “Who am I?” You may finish by questioning the one who asked.