The Happy Sage: Burnout to Bliss - Awakening Was Never This Funny
A Happy Sage Novel featuring Bliss Ananda
By Janaki Ram

Description

What if your midlife burnout wasn’t the end of the road—but the beginning of the funniest, strangest, and most eye-opening journey of your life?

Meet Moksha Nath: a thirty-something corporate program manager whose inbox is fuller than his soul. After a near-collapse at work and a desperate intervention from his sister, Moksha is shipped off to the Ma Wellness Retreat—a 300-acre coffee estate in the Western Ghats promising “healing, stillness, and transformation.” He’s hoping for Wi-Fi and strong coffee. What does he get instead? A gong at dawn, yoga poses that feel like medieval torture, meditation sessions that expose the chaos in his head, and a sage named Bliss Ananda who teaches enlightenment with equal parts science, satire, and sarcasm.

Along the way, Moksha bumbles into:
A taxi driver who doubles as a mythologist and philosopher.
Fellow retreat misfits searching for happiness in all the wrong (and right) places.
Silent meals that taste louder than office politics.
Cosmic questions like Who am I?” are answered with metaphors about software, squirrels, and jackfruit.

Blending laugh-out-loud humor with piercing insights, this novel dismantles the myths of soul, karma, rebirth, and enlightenment—without insulting faith, but without tiptoeing around uncomfortable truths either. With wit as sharp as his self-doubt, Moksha discovers that awakening isn’t about glowing halos or vanishing into caves. It’s about debugging the “apps” installed in your mind by family, culture, and corporate life—and learning to live with presence, purpose, and maybe even joy.

Why You’ll Love This Book

If you prefer spirituality with a wink instead of a sermon, this book, written by Janaki Ram, is for you.

Perfect For Readers Who…
Are you tired of self-help books promising “instant bliss” in 7 steps?
I’ve tried meditation apps, but I ended up doom-scrolling.
Want to explore philosophy, science, and spirituality—with plenty of jokes along the way.

At once a satire, a soulful journey, and a mirror held up to our modern anxieties, Burnout to Bliss: Awakening Was Never This Funny proves that sometimes the shortest path to wisdom runs straight through laughter.

Buy your copy now and discover why awakening was never this funny.