Sa Darshana A way of seeing systems

When I look back at the journey that brought me to Sa Darshana: The BASIX of Being, I do not see a straight line or a deliberate project. What I see is the unfolding of many years shaped by silence and struggle, refined by seeking and insight, supported by teachers, enriched by the people I walked with, strengthened by grace, and clarified through long hours of contemplation. This book was not written as much as it revealed itself slowly and steadily as I kept returning to the core of my being through experiences, mistakes, awakenings, and sincere inquiry.

I did not set out with the intention of creating a framework. I simply wanted to understand myself – the roots of my thoughts, the emotions that lingered, and the patterns that repeated like familiar echoes. Through meditation, practices, reflective inquiry and thousands of heartfelt conversations with people from many walks of life, clarity began to surface. This clarity was not philosophical; it was experiential. It came as a recognition that everything within us is interconnected, that every challenge has roots deeper than we assume, and that all true transformation (personal or relational) ultimately turns inward.

The six dimensions of “The BASIX of Being” unfolded over seasons of inner work: coaching conversations, silent retreats, failures that humbled me, insights that lifted me, and the quiet wisdom of the body, breath, and bonds. They were not steps but living domains. These became The BASIX of Being: Body, Breath, Beliefs, Behaviours, Bonds, and Beyond.

The title of the book evolved into Sa Darshana: The BASIX of Being, because this work is not about looking at life from the outside, but about engaging with it through awareness.

"Sa Darshana" is not merely seeing. It is conscious visioning – the capacity to see, sense, and shape life with awareness. It is “seeing together” “seeing rightly” and “seeing with awareness” not as separate acts, but as a unified way of being.

"Sa Darshana" unfolds as both a lived practice and a structured path, the art and science of conscious integration.

Life revealed these dimensions, each one woven into our everyday existence silently shaping who we become and how we experience the world.

Body (Sharir) is the first dimension or portal. The body is not just anatomy; it is memory, intuition, intelligence, and truth. Most suffering begins when we ignore the body; most healing begins when we listen. Over the years, I learned to see the body not as a passive structure but as a living field of awareness holding, revealing, and guiding.

Breath (Shwaas) showed me that awareness is never far. Breath is the bridge between matter and consciousness, the visible and the invisible. It grounded me in chaos and opened me in silence. Breath taught me that presence is not an abstract ideal; it is a sensation, a rhythm, a returning.

Beliefs (Samskaar) revealed themselves as the invisible architecture of human experience. I began to see that many of my behaviours, both in how I treated myself and how I related to the world, were shaped by impressions I had never questioned: inherited from family, conditioned by childhood, absorbed from society, or perhaps carried from earlier lifetimes. Awareness became the gentle fire that softened these patterns.

Behaviours (Samacheshtitham) illuminated the truth of inner congruence. Behaviour is not about discipline or control; it is the signature of our inner alignment. When thought, word, and action harmonise, Behaviours becomes a channel of clarity, compassion, and strength.

Bonds (Sambandh) revealed the relational dimension of the inner journey. Every relationship is a mirror. When unconscious, bonds become wounds; when conscious, bonds become doorways. Through my work with people, I saw how ancestral, emotional, and karmic threads influence human connections and how awareness can transform them into pathways of healing.

And then came Beyond (Samatit), the dimension that completes the mandala. Samatit revealed itself slowly, like a truth I had been seeking long before I knew its name. It is the movement beyond conditioning, roles, stories, and tightly held identities. It is not an escape from the world but a rising above its psychological grip. While the idea of Sākṣī, the witness, guided me for years, my journey kept pointing to something more spacious: not just witnessing, but transcending; not just observing, but outgrowing; not just being aware, but being limitless. Samatit loosens the boundaries we once mistook for ourselves. It softens resistance and allows life to flow unobstructed.

Samatit is also the home of Sat–Chit–Ānanda (truth, consciousness, bliss). This is not a concept; it is the ever-present awareness that has accompanied us from birth. The inner witness remains untouched, steady, luminous, no matter what storms move through the mind or body. My deepest shift came when I realized this awareness as my own nature. It did not make life perfect; it made life clear. It dissolved separation, eased suffering, and filled ordinary moments with a quiet, unforced joy. In truth, the entire BASIX journey leads to this “remembering”, this expansion, this gentle movement beyond.

Working with thousands of individuals through coaching, mentoring, healing, constellations, regression, leadership, and wealth guidance taught me something simple yet profound: Every challenge we face can be traced to one or more of these six dimensions and every solution arises also through them.

This book is not designed to give answers; it is meant to help you ask the right questions the kind that lead you inward. It is not a book to read once; it is a companion to return to, reflect with, question, and allow to work within you. To walk the path of the art of knowing the self from the inside through awareness is to become Antarvedi. And “Sa Darshana: The BASIX of Being” provides an opening to such possibility.

This work is my offering to seekers, leaders, teachers, healers, coaches, therapists, facilitators, and to all who navigate the complexities of modern life. The BASIX sits at the meeting point of ancient wisdom and contemporary living. In a world that is noisy and fragmented, they offer grounding. In a world that chases complexity, they bring simplicity. In a world searching outside, they point inward.

If there is one message that I hope you carry, it is this: Transformation is not dramatic, it is intimate. It happens breath by breath, choice by choice, moment by moment and it always begins with awareness.

As you hold this book, know that it is an invitation not to add something new, but to remove what is not you.

"Sa Darshana: The BASIX of Being" guides you back to your natural state of clarity, presence, compassion and inner freedom.

Everything I share is something I have lived, walked through, questioned, surrendered to and been shaped by. If this work touches even one life, brings peace to one restless mind, or reconnects one heart to its own truth, its purpose is fulfilled.

With gratitude, humility and reverence for Life, I offer this work to you. May Sa Darshana awaken the seeing within you. May the BASIX bring balance and beauty to your life. May the Beyond reveal itself in your own time and way.

Sa Darshana: The BASIX of Being carries guiding reflections and contemplative insights from respected voices across spirituality, yoga, healing, transformation, leadership, and human development. These reflections engage with the book not merely as a collection of ideas, but as an experiential exploration of awareness, coherence, embodiment, and the deeper dimensions of the human journey.

Guiding Reflections by: Dr. Bharat Thakur (Founder Artistic Yoga), Mr. Raj Mali (Mindset Coach and Mentor) Dr. Newton Kondaveti (Founder, Chairman – Quantum Life University) Dr. Lakshmi Newton Kondaveti (Co-Founder, Vice Chairman – Quantum Life University) Dr. Premji Nirmal (Founder – School of Success and Happiness) Mrs. Bharati Nirmal (Founder - Happiness Multiversity) Dr. Marshall Goldsmith (Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.)

Foreword by: Sri Yogiraj Amarjyoti Ji

Detailed guiding reflections and commentaries are included within the book.

When the word business appears in these pages, it is not limited to corporations, balance sheets, or formal enterprises. It refers to conscious creation.

Any space where intention takes form,
where energy organizes into action,
where something invisible seeks expression in the world, that is business, as this book understands it.

A conscious creator may be building an organization, or a community. They may be running a non-profit, teaching a classroom, nurturing a relationship, raising children, holding a household, mentoring others, studying, or shaping systems quietly from within.

The scale does not matter; the quality of consciousness does.

Over the last three decades, I have worked across manufacturing floors and boardrooms, technology platforms and human systems, global enterprises and individual inner journeys.

I have seen how large systems fail not because of poor strategy, but because of misaligned intention. And I have seen how small, quiet efforts transform lives when they are rooted in clarity of calling and integrity of action. Whether designing enterprise platforms, leading transformation programs, coaching leaders, or sitting with individuals at moments of transition, one truth has remained consistent:

Creation follows consciousness.
Form reflects inner orientation.
What we build in the world is inseparable from how we are within ourselves.

This is where Sa Darshana becomes central. "Sa Darshana" is not merely seeing. It is conscious visioning, the capacity to see, sense, and shape life with awareness. In the context of business, it is the ability to perceive not only what is being created, but the consciousness from which it arises.

Business is not separate from Being. It is Being in expression.

If you are shaping anything that carries your attention, care, responsibility, or love, you are already engaged in business as this book understands it.

Throughout this book, including the practices and reflections, business is understood as conscious creation. It may take the form of an organization, a relationship, a body of work, or a way of living. These are not tools limited to enterprises, but invitations to engage with whatever you are shaping, inwardly or outwardly. Return to them as often as needed. They are not steps to complete, but spaces to enter.

This book does not ask you to become an entrepreneur or to formalize your work into an organization. It invites you instead to look honestly at what you are creating, how you are creating, and whether your creations are aligned with the deeper calling that brought them into being.

Read the book not as an instruction, but as a mirror. Let the book help you to sense the architecture of your own creations, and to walk the spiral of becoming with greater awareness, responsibility, and care. You may revisit a section years later and discover something entirely new. At times you may find certain sharing or themes resurfacing across chapters, this is intentional. The BASIX are not linear; they spiral. Each return is an invitation for the insight to settle a little deeper into your being.

Sa Darshana: The BASIX of Business carries guiding reflections on leadership, systems, enterprise, strategy, and conscious creation. These reflections engage with the book as an integrative exploration of how organizations, institutions, and human systems can move toward greater coherence, alignment, responsibility, and meaningful contribution.

Rather than viewing business only through the lens of structure, process, or performance, the reflections recognize the deeper interplay between purpose, people, culture, communication, and creation within evolving enterprises.

Guiding Reflection by: Dr. Marshall Goldsmith (Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.)

Detailed guiding reflections are included within the book.