Feroze Dada was born in Karachi, and has lived and worked for most of his life in London. He worked in the finance sector and was entrepreneurial in helping several media start-up companies. A decade ago, his life changed when he went to Myanmar to visit his wife's family. He became deeply involved in working with a Buddhist monastery in Shan Province, helping it over a number of years to become self- sufficient, supporting as it does some 1200 orphan children.

He became a meditation practitioner and continued to work with his Sufi teacher, learning how to live a fulfilled and meaningful life, and by helping others.

He is the interviewer and producer of the online TV series Discovering Humanity and Our One World, and author of Children of the Revolution: A Spiritual Journey to Burma and Buddhism.

As well as his work as founder of The Inle Trust Charity, set up to help the children at the Phaya Taung monastery in Myanmar, he teaches and promotes meditation at The Sylvan Healing Sanctuary in London. This is a community of healers, teachers and practitioners that offer energy healing, meditation and mindfulness.

A Disciple is both an inspiration and a teaching. It will reach out to everyone who is a seeker after a deeper meaning to life and it will appeal to the many readers of stories about transforming experiences.

So many people are interested in secular Buddhism, the mystic traditions such as Sufism and the life changing benefit of meditation. In particular, in these unsettling and changing times there is a rapidly increasing hunger for wisdom about the unity of all things and how to live the best life possible.

A Disciple combines teaching with wisdom, and the story offers personal insights along with practical advice on meditation practice and the development of a heightened sense of awareness about what it means to really live.

It aims to capture the cause and effect of being open to the world of the spirit, and the true joy of discovering that everything is possible if you allow it to be.

A Disciple is the heartening story of one person's setting out on the spiritual path, written for an audience confrontec today with a precarious world and a challenging future. In these times we need to be nourished by the possibilities c growing in inner and outer health, and having the tools for living a balanced life. We all learn by example and A Disciple is an inspired guide.

As the well-known adage goes, when the student's ready, the teacher appears. When I was ready, a spiritual master appeared who showed me the true reflection of my soul - Ustad. From that day everything changed in my world just as night turns to day. My journey as a disciple had begun.

This book is about that journey, to find the truth of my soul and of my very existence. A life-changing voyage that led me to the shrine of the Virgin Mary at the top of the Bulbull mountain near Ephesus in Turkey, to a monk in a remote monastery near the Shan Hills of Myanmar, and to the tomb of the first female Sufi Saint Rabi'ah in Jerusalem. Then on into the depths of one of the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, to cross paths with fellow seekers from blind Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli in Tuscany, to Pakistani philanthropist and humanitarian Sattar Edhi in Karachi.