With the help of an ancient fable from India, this book addresses the role of evolving consciousness in promoting personal development and opening possibilities for self-realization. The idea that human consciousness gradually unfolds and spirals during the course of one's entire life is now well accepted. But a lack of effort can cause people to become stuck at a lower level. As a result, they may never reach the heights of creativity and self-actualization to which they aspire.

"The Summit" provides answers to several intricate questions: What is consciousness? What is our true potential...

This work studies the ingenious poetics of Ghalib by tracing the roots of his creative consciousness and enigmatic thought in Buddhist dialectical philosophy, in particular in Nagarjuna's concept ofshunyata(emptiness or voidness) as well as the influence of the Sabke Hindi tradition (the Indian style of Mughal Persian poetry with indigenized poetics), especially through Abdul-Qadir Bedil, whom Ghalib considered his mentor.