Every machine comes with a manual. What about you?
We spend our lives learning how to use the world around us, yet rarely stop to understand the extraordinary system through which we experience it—ourselves.
User Manual for a Human Being is an exploration of what it means to be human, beginning with the origins of the universe and the evolution of life, and gradually turning inward to the human body, mind, emotions, consciousness and the deeper questions of existence.
Drawing connections between modern science, psychology, human evolution, Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Indian philosophy and ancient spiritual wisdom, Viral Chawla explores how seemingly different ways of understanding life may illuminate different dimensions of the same human experience. The book examines the body and its systems, the senses and mind, prāṇa and the subtle dimensions described by Yoga, karma, meditation, self-awareness and the search for liberation.
Rather than asking the reader to accept a particular belief, the book invites exploration, reflection and direct experience.
This is not just a book. It is a map, a mirror and a journey—an invitation to understand not merely how to live, but what you truly are.