After a baptism in water and Spirit, author Haresh Patel found meaning in his life and hopes to inspire others with his autobiography Thoughts from the Cosmic Field in the Life of a Thinking Insect [a Latter-day Saint]. 

Haresh lives in a corrupt society where it’s extremely hard to survive. But his intense love for his mother makes him try even harder. When his mother was a seven-year-old girl, she garlanded Gandhi at Bhadran while he was on his famous Dandi March in 1930. Haresh was born in Bhadran in 1943, prior to India’s Partition. Haresh started his spiritual journey at 12 after having read Gandhi’s autobiography My Experiments with Truth. It ignited his consciousness and led him to be a jurist. He studied most of the scriptures of people and philosophy, but, being truthful, he could not succeed in a corrupt society. 

Led to LDS Church in Chicago in 1994, Haresh was baptized and ordained into Aaronic Priesthood. He was gifted with Holy Ghost. On October 22 of the same year, he was mysteriously transformed into Christ Consciousness. At the insistence of Elder James Maddux, Haresh has recorded his Epistolary Autobiography from 1994 up to 2008. 

Gandhi experimented with Truth all his life. He never experienced it. Unlike Gandhi, Haresh Patel has not only experienced Truth, he lives it from moment to moment in accordance with inner promptings from the Holy Ghost.  

This book is a story of Haresh, who is He Himself.


About the Author

Elder James Maddux of LDS Church inspired Haresh Patel to record his story up to his Baptism and his Priesthood in the LDS Church. His writing is addressed to his son Binoy to satisfy his curiosity about his father’s 49 years of an apparently superfluous life and how he found meaning in it, at 65.