false 5047012 300541 623125 1580050522 9781580050524 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176410325m/623125.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176410325s/623125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/623125.Pilgrimage_to_India_A_Woman_Revisits_Her_Homeland 3.67 6 Eventually she left Seattle, Wash., where she had worked, to embark on a two-year pilgrimage through India. Japayala takes us on the underground tour--letting us see this complex and spiritually fascinating country through Western eyes but with a native guide. She openly questions the feminine and class restraints of India, yet somehow she never becomes self-righteous or didactic. Through this brave, unflinching voice we find a mentor for self-discovery as well as a model for how to know and question our own homelands. At its core this is a global manifesto in which Jayapala recognizes that spiritual growth is the only way to bring about social and political change. But at its heart this is a dynamic spiritual memoir as Jayapala continually returns to her personal journey, including the gripping crescendo--a miraculous story of her son's premature birth in Bombay. --Gail Hudson

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