What Am I Missing (Paperback)

This book is an invitation to look at life honestly-without consolation, without escape, and without borrowed answers.

Most of us live with a quiet unease.
Life moves forward-work, family, success, failure, relationships-yet beneath it all runs a persistent feeling of incompleteness. We try to manage it through achievement, belief, spirituality, or self-improvement, but the unease returns.

This book does not attempt to comfort that unease. It seeks to understand it at its root.

Written as a series of teacher-student conversations, the book unfolds step by step, beginning with the most immediate human questions, unhappiness, confusion, and lack of meaning, and gradually moving toward the deepest inquiry of all: Who am I?

Rather than offering techniques or philosophies, the dialogues challenge the assumptions we live by:
- that suffering is personal
- that the mind is a reliable guide to peace
- that fulfillment lies in becoming something more
- that liberation belongs to another time, place, or life

The conversations explore why modern life feels directionless despite material progress, why most solutions provide only temporary relief, and why humanity has repeatedly produced awakened beings across cultures, not to create religions, but to point to a truth that was missed.

Drawing from the wisdom of Indian scriptures, especially Vedanta, the book introduces Sat (that which never changes) and Chit (that which knows all change), not as abstract ideas, but as direct pointers to lived reality. These insights are presented without religious framing, intellectual complexity, or mysticism.

As the inquiry deepens, attention turns inward:
What creates the sense of a separate "I"?
Why does identification feel so natural?
What prevents clarity right now?
Is liberation gradual or sudden?
What happens to karma, destiny, and rebirth when realization dawns?

The later chapters address life after understanding, not as an altered state, but as ordinary living without psychological burden. Relationships continue, action continues, life continues - but without the constant struggle to become complete.

This is not a book that asks for belief.
It does not promise experiences, powers, or rewards.
It does not position the author as an authority or the reader as a seeker to be fixed.

It simply invites careful attention.

If you are looking for another spiritual path, method, or system, this book may not satisfy you.
If you are willing to question what you have always assumed yourself to be, it may quietly dissolve questions you have carried for years.

The book ends where all genuine inquiry ends - not with answers, but with clarity.

Sanjeev Sareen, is an Engineer, superannuated in 2018, after serving in five large Manufacturing Industries in India.

He is into Spirituality and Practicing under a Realized master since 1995. His Book "Spirituality through Science" tries to reflect on the issues with the Traditional Practices in the name of Spirituality. He tries to convince the readers through various examples, to consider spirituality as the highest science and practice it accordingly. His whole emphasis is to inspire the readers for seeking God more and more through Practice and lifestyle management.

His other Hindi Poetry e- book- ईशवर- कौन, कहाँ और क्यों. ( God- Who, Where and Why), has already hit Amazon's #1 Bestseller. In this book, He has tried to reflect Holistically on various life situations in a very simple way that the readers can relate with them easily. This book is available in paperback version also on Amazon Platform.

His interests in the past had been sports (He was a National basketball player) and Human Psychology. His passion all the time had been Transforming Self and helping others.

He is very analytical. His approach towards various life situations had been largely Spiritualistic. This has helped him evolve. He looks at life situations differently which helps him to relate with others in similar situations and help them further.