Living the Lotus Life

Memoirs of a child at the age of four to an adult of 76 years of age. A span of 72years life experience involving in a slum area, near destitude, with single parent ofunmatched motherly love that cared for him. He projects his life from childhood in theHindu faith of his mother, the brutality of his separated father and the insurmountableinjustice to Non-White peoples of Apartheid South Africa. He shares his experiencein the daily life he faced in Apartheid South Africa, gives a view of the attitudes ofthe Whites and the inequality he faced. He explains how further education beyondhigh school was attained by special consent to study in a White only university wherehe had to pay the same fees as the White students but was denied all the sportingsocial and cultural facilities and activities. Despite his non violent political activitieson the university campus, consent to study further was terminated by the ministryof education and denied access to the university. He was placed under house arrestand subsequently arrested under the terrorism act and imprisoned, tortured andvirtually disappeared to the knowledge of his family and friends.He endured prisonlife through his meditation techniques and raised his threshold for pain he escapedfrom the country and made a new life as a truly free human being in the UK. Hetravelled the world acquiring a better understand of indigenous people in the countryhe visted and could relate to their difficulties.