Book cover. PHOTO/COURTESY
Manifest Your Infinite Riches’s cover is black and gold, the kind of book you might leave on a coffee table, the kind meant to signal something about the person who owns it.
Pushkar Anand understands the weight of appearances, the way a thing looks before it is ever read.
This is, perhaps, the first lesson of the book; that presentation is a kind of manifestation, that the external can shape the internal.
The prose is clean, deliberate, broken into digestible fragments.
Pushkar writes as if for a generation that no longer has the patience for sustained argument, and in this, he is pragmatic.
The chapters are brief, two or three pages at most, the way modern lives are lived; in glances, in flashes, between one distraction and the next.
There is a rhythm to it, a method. One does not so much read as absorb.
His thesis is not new. It is ancient.
The idea that thought precedes reality, that the mind must first be tilled like fallow ground before anything of worth can grow.
He speaks of unlearning, a word that carries with it the weight of undoing, of stripping away the accumulated layers of doubt and limitation.
One must first empty oneself before filling up again with purpose, with alignment, with action.
It is a familiar refrain, but Pushkar delivers it without pretension, without the heavy hand of dogma.
He is merely a guide, one voice among many, reminding us of what we already know but so often forget.
What lingers is not the philosophy itself but the structure of it, the way he frames the process as gardening.
The mind must be weeded, watered, tended.
Neglect it, and it will grow wild. Attend to it, and it may yield something worthwhile.
The metaphor is simple, almost too simple, but there is truth in it.
We are all, in some way, cultivating our own ruin or our own salvation.
Pushkar’s work is neither revolutionary nor does it claim to be.
He draws from the same well as those who came before him; Emerson, Napoleon Hill, the New Thought prophets, but he distills their wisdom into something approachable, something one might read in the quiet hours of the morning before the day begins in earnest.
It is a book for the hesitant, for those who find themselves stalled at the threshold of their own potential.
I imagine it in the hands of a recent graduate or someone adrift, looking for a signpost.
It will not change their life, but it may clarify something.
And sometimes, that is enough.
The danger, of course, is in mistaking the map for the territory.
Pushkar offers direction, but the walking is still left to the reader.
Plans are only as good as the hands that hold them.
As the old saying goes, one we have all heard and few of us truly heed, when you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
But then, failure has always been easier than success.
That, too, is nothing new.
The book can be found from Aristoc Booklex, Transit Duty Free Shop Entebbe Airport, Uganda Bookshop and Mukono Bookshop.
About Pushkar
Pushkar is the founder of the Centre for Infinite Riches.
Educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, he was in the early stages of his traditional corporate career when a profound moment of insight in 2008 led him to evaluate his life expectations and priorities.
This moment of insight set Pushkar on his quest as a seeker: an extraordinary quest of endless research and self-discovery that covered more than 500 books, 30 seminars, workshops and immersive learning experiences, and an intense four-year period of study with his teacher, Blaine Bartlett, whom he fondly addresses as Grandmaster B².
Pushkar’s 15-year journey resulted in his founding the Centre for Infinite Riches and authoring Manifest Your Infinite Riches.
