When The World Sleeps - 9788198867452

About the Book

What does it mean to be spiritual –
to let go of the world and feel wholly content?
To embrace each moment with love and joy –
even at 12:47 a.m., or 1:11 a.m., or 2:16 a.m.,
throughout the day and the night?

This book does not merely explore these questions.
It invites you to witness them being lived.

Mahant Swami Maharaj is one of the most respected Hindu leaders of our time and the spiritual guru and head of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.

After nearly seven decades as a swami, his life has been marked by constant devotion and selfless service — travelling across continents, visiting cities and villages, homes and huts, and offering guidance and care to people from all walks of life. Now aged 92, that service continues.

By day, much of his life is visible to the world.
But this book looks elsewhere.

It turns to his nights.

No crowds. No expectations. No demands of the day.
Only who he is in solitude.

Drawing on interviews, time records, personal notes, and eyewitness accounts spanning from 1973 to 2025, this book traces Mahant Swami Maharaj’s nights through lived moments of reflection, conversation, dreams, devotion, and quiet acts of care.

What emerges is a portrait of spirituality not as something performed or sustained through effort, but as a natural way of being.

Through these nights, readers are offered a rare closeness to a life lived wholly for God and for others — and a deeply felt sense of joy, compassion, and fulfilment, even while the world sleeps.