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Published by Amazon Books
January 2022
Also available on Book Depository

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YOU BELONG TO THE STARS

KISSING THE JOY AS IT FLIES
Letters to the Beloved 

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Books out of Print (below)
soon to be republished in one volume


IF - A MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER 

Shobha Cameron offers yet another rejoinder, 
from the female viewpoint, 
to Rudyard Kipling's IF - 
the most loved poem of the English people.

Kipling speaks as a father to his son.

Shobha speaks a a mother to her daughter, 
though her poem is not autobiographical.

The qualities a woman brings to loving are unique, 
whether that love be for a sweetheart, a child, 
a friend or a stranger met for the first time.

Kipling's sentiments are inspirational 
for both men and women.

Yet the female perspective 
embraces sacrifice and surrender 
in a different and complementary way.  

Both paths lead to fulfilment. 



SONG OF LOVE

The spiritual tradition of the devotee (bhakti) 
is widely accepted in the east, 
where surrender to a teacher or guru,
is a necessary stage in the awakening of love for the divine, 
and ultimately, 
remembrance of one's own divinity.

Shobha lived as a sannyasin 
for five years in the ashram of the
controversial Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 
who is now known as Osho.

Her Song of Love (poems of devotion) 
arose spontaneously while meditating at night in the ashram garden.  

The ballads in the latter part of the book, 
were written on her return to Australia.

The poetry of devotion can also be found 
in the ecstatic Sufi utterances of Jalaluddin Rumi
the mesmerising bhajans of princess Meerabhai
the heartfelt sutras of the enlightened weaver Kabir,
 and the inspired writings 
of Kahlil Gibran and Rabindranath Tagore.



JOURNEY OF A SANNYASIN

Journey of a Sannyasin is a psychological account 
of Shobha's spiritual experiences 
when she lived for five years in the ashram 
of controversial Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 
now known as Osho.  

It traces the development of her relationship with Bhagwan
from an initial state of awe and wonder 
to the relinquishment of the notion of Bhagwan as a person, 
as her understanding 
of what it is to be a mystic, slowly deepened.  

Her journey has great significance 
for western seekers of enlightenment.   

The book is illustrated throughout
with extracts from poems she wrote at night under the stars 
in the silent darkness of the ashram garden.



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