I have made various choices and decisions to create this book. While the greater part of it was written freshly for this volume, some of it was based on talks I had already given. In the tradition of Baba’s Shaivism. Consciousness Is the great unexplored area of life, the final frontier. It is the invisible but essential ingredient that even science approaches with fear and trembling. Yet one ancient philosophy has explored it completely and that philosophy, and Consciousness Itself, are the subject of this book. Kashmir Shaivism is the study of Consciousness. Since Consciousness is infinite, so our study is without limits. Notice that I didn’t say, ‘human consciousness’. Consciousness is One no matter where we find it, though its personalities are many. Look at your pet, your dog or cat. A pet over feels that there is a conscious being there, somehow overlayed by ‘catness’ or ‘dogness’.