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A New Chapter in Heart Care: Heartfulness Compass
India
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New Delhi, October 21, 2026:
A senior interventional cardiologists 25 essays on where medicine meets meditation — the skill of the hands and the stillness of the mind The work of an interventional cardiologist is usually measured in precision — blocked arteries reopened, complex procedures navigated, lives steadied inside the cath lab. But for Dr A. Sharath Reddy, more than nineteen years at that high-pressure frontier have taught a quieter lesson: that the calm a doctor carries within is as consequential as the instruments in his hands. That conviction is the heart of his new book, The Uncharted Artery – Heartfulness Compass.
The book was launched on 28 September at Kanha Shanti Vanam, Telangana, by Padma Bhushan Kamlesh D. Patel (Daaji), Global Guide of Heartfulness, and was later celebrated at a gathering in Hyderabad. The Uncharted Artery – Heartfulness Compass will reach readers through leading bookshops and online platforms, including Amazon.
Drawn from the author’s essays and his years in cardiac care, the twenty-five pieces move between two worlds that rarely share a page. One is the science: the discipline of complex coronary work, the split-second judgement of the cath lab, the courage of patients facing serious heart disease. The other is the inner life: the practice of heartfulness meditation that, over the years, taught the author to steady his own mind before steadying another’s heart. The book’s argument is that these are not separate — that the quality of attention a physician brings to the table shapes the outcome as surely as technique.
That belief is grounded in hard experience. Dr Sharath Reddy works at the most demanding end of cardiology, including Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) interventions — reopening arteries that have been completely blocked for months, in procedures many centres decline to attempt. It is precisely in such high-stakes, hours-long work, he writes, that a settled mind becomes not a luxury but a clinical necessity.
The spiritual thread runs back to the author’s own practice under Daaji, who has known him for over a decade. In the Heartfulness view, daily meditation clears the mind of its accumulated impressions and shifts a person’s focus from the ego to the heart — a discipline Daaji describes as equipping doctors with clarity, focus and a refined quality of attention. By anchoring himself in the heart, Daaji writes of the author, he has grown from a clinician into “a truly humane healer.”
Speaking about the book, Dr Sharath Reddy said, “Every patient who comes into the cath lab brings more than a medical condition — there is a person, a family, and a story behind every procedure. Over the years I realised that the steadiness those procedures demand does not come from technique alone; it comes from the inner work of meditation. These essays grew out of that discovery — of what it means to treat the heart with both skill and stillness.”
He added, “Interventional cardiology demands technical mastery and careful judgement, especially in complex cases. But medicine has also taught me — through my patients, my teachers and my own practice of Heartfulness — that science and the inner life are not at odds. One sharpens the other. I hope readers see a side of cardiac medicine we rarely speak about when we talk only of procedures, technology and outcomes: the human being, and the quiet mind, behind the hands.”
