Everything seems perfectly wonderful until the end of the four weeks' training when the newly qualified yogi is ejected from her cushioned existence and bangs into the harsh reality of India's financial crisis, which coincides with the shock of Donald Trump winning the US presidential election.
Both bombshells - announced on the same day - take on mystical proportions, impact on yogic bliss, which unravels and disintegrates in the tragic comedy of someone not at all in control. 'Don't get stuck at ice-cream bliss, ' Krishna says with a customary head wobble and broad smile. 'It is not the lasting bliss of enlightenment: it is an illusion. Like ice cream, it will dissolve and disappear. You must pursue pure enlightenment, pure eternal bliss, where everything else is temporary and meaningless.' Is it a great test of The Universe, or simply the effect of being on a beach in Goa? Find out.Click BUY NOW at the top.