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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Remeschwar Dass.

Remeschwar is a writer and photographer

and longtime friend of well-known spiritual teacher,

Ram Das.

Most recently, he was Ram Das's co-author on the new book,

Polishing the Mirror, How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart.

Remeschwar first journeyed to India in 1970 where he met his guru

Neimkorlibaba today he lives with his family in Long Island in this episode of Insights at the Edge, Remeschwar and I spoke about

suffering as a doorway into grace. We also talked about what it might mean to live a path of devotion and even to maintain a sense of devotion in the face of tragedy.

We also talked about what is meant by polishing the mirror and the

idea that guru, God and self are all the same. And finally we talked about the relationship between

faith and the recognition of love. Here's my conversation with Rameshwar Das.

Rameshwar Das.

Rameshwar, the only way I feel I can really be true in this conversation here at the beginning is to

bring forward the really difficult and strange timing of the publication of this new book

Polishing the Mirror, how to live from your spiritual heart, such a beautiful and strong subtitle, living from your spiritual heart with the very tragic, unbelievably and difficult loss of your daughter

due to an accident, your 14-year-old daughter in a bike accident with a car, and how these things

happened at the same time, practically, within hours of each other, the release of the new book and this loss.

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