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Case Study

From Vision to Published Book —The Flame Within

A publishing project that transformed Arul Dev’s manuscript into a beautifully produced book. From refining the content and creating a cohesive illustration style to managing production, design, and making it available to readers worldwide, every detail was shaped to reflect the book’s spiritual depth.

Overview

The Flame Within by Arul Dev is a guide to spiritual growth, blending meditative insights with subtle imagery and quotes from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. The project involved transforming the manuscript into a finished book, managing writing consultancy, design, production, and distribution.

Challenges

The project required:

Solution

Collaboration with Arul Dev led to refining his sketches into a cohesive visual theme. The design combined thoughtful typography, layout, and paper choice to enhance the book’s introspective nature. The print process was managed for quality and cost-effectiveness, along with seamless ebook conversion and Amazon listing.

Results

The Flame Within emerged as a visually engaging, spiritually enriching book. Readers praised the seamless integration of design and content, enhancing their connection to the meditative practices shared.

Author Feedback

Vivechana as a publisher facilitated an experiential unfolding journey in the creation of my two books. For my first book ‘Into Great Depth of Your Being’ I already had my book content and images for chapters ready. Vivechana set up a team of copy editors and she herself played the role of design and uplifted the book into a whole new level. She coordinated all our works and guided us to fruition 30 hours ahead of our mutually agreed timeline. Over a magical two months we went through the whole book multiple times and chiselled it to have its right shine and layout.

‘The Flame Within’ experience was of a whole new level. Vivechana accepted to be both the designer and publisher of the book. A threesome team of Arul as author, Urvi Shah as copy editor and Vivechana as digital illustrator was formed which worked through the contents and illustrations together as one flow, through the whole book. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri was the anchor point for Arul to write. What he wrote Urvi edited. Arul drew some pencil sketches of the experience which Vivechana illustrated. We thus marched note by note and completed the entire book in about 45 days. The entire presentation of the book in a visually appealing way was done by Vivechana and the book was launched which is now running through its second print.

For a spiritual, wellness, healing, art and culture book which needs subtle images and descriptions to go together bound by an aesthetic book cover and overall design, Vivechana is your go-to publisher.

Arul Dev

Reviews

The Flame Within is a beautiful exposition of the author’s personal discovery of methods to awaken and kindle the flame of the psychic being, using the framework of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This book supplements his seminal work titled ‘Into great depth of your being’, and targets the conscious awakening of the flame within, with the help of specific practices that are simple to carry out using the consciousness in one’s body.

Devdas Menon, Professor & PC Varghese Institute Chair, IIT Madras

The author, based on his own personal experiences, takes us through a simple process of an inward gaze to come in touch and awaken the aspiration in the body and open to the light from above. In this process, he explains how our natural breath can play a powerful role.
Manoj Pavitran, Co Founder of Purnam Community, Auroville and Integral Yoga Practitioner Coach
The Flame Within is a book of spiritual practice drawn from the personal journey of the author in the course of his engagement with Sri Aurobindo’s teachings. It is a sincere and genuine attempt to share his understanding and experience with the community of seekers.

Dr Alok Pandey, MBBS, MD (Psy), Wing Commander (Retd), Editor AIM, Author, Writer, Speaker

A must book for those who want spirituality or, inner or higher consciousness- transformation exercises to be undertaken every day, in professional space or individual life-style, family and our collective living. This book encourages us to understand true aims of life as well as connects them to doable outcomes.

Dr K. Parameswaran, Associate Professor of Law, GNLU, Proficient in NLP, CBT & Clinical Hypnotherapy

The Flame Within has become my favorite book – I look into it every single day of the year and it accompanies me on all my travels around the world. Easy to understand- I love the feel and touch – and the accompanying sketches to this wonderful book.

Anja Loetscher, Former Director of Geneva Convention Bureau

(T)His book is an excellent easy guide for understanding the basic concepts, finding mental peace and learn how to fully live in the present.

Rukhshona Rajabova, Hubert H Humphrey Fellow (US), Senior in UN Hq Jeneva, Switzerland