A research scientist and PhD biochemist by training, the author crossed over to the arts and philosophy, to meet her calling. A desire for self-knowledge and freedom brought the author to the Vedanta, and an examination of the philosophy of the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita, which has kept the author engrossed for many years. The author’s first book on the UPANISHADS (True Living Foundation 2012) is an in-depth and contemporary-style account of core human nature, and the way to freeing and reinstating it from the limiting influences of the survivalist ego.