For thousands of years the teachings of the spiritual Masters known as Siddhas have been handed down from Guru to disciple in an unbroken lineage.

Swami Muktananda, one of the great Siddhas of teh twentieth century, writes movingly in this book of the extraordinary ways of the Siddhas he himself knew, and introduces us to the philosophy - Kashmir Shaivism - that describes their experience.

This subtle yet precise system delineates the stages through which God bursts into form to become His own creation, and the spiritual path that leads us back to him.