A monk of Brittany, a wanderer of India, a witness of the Absolute. The story of Henri Le Saux (Swami Abhishiktananda) is one of the most luminous crossings between East and West ever lived.Born in France and vowed as a Benedictine, he heard a call that no walls could contain-a call that led him to the sacred mountains and rivers of India, to the caves of Arunachala, and finally to the silence where all names dissolve. In that silence, Christ and Śiva, the psalms and the Upanishads, became a single fire.The Wisdom of Henri Le Saux (Swami Abhishiktananda): Silence, Awakening, and the Fire of the Two Shores traces this astonishing inner pilgrimage through twenty chapters of contemplative narrative, drawing directly from his journals, letters, and lived experience. It is not a biography in the ordinary sense, but a meditation on transformation itself-the surrender of the ego, the discovery of the Self, the meeting of two worlds in one uncreated light.Readers will feel the depth of his awakening: the Breton monk who became a Hindu sannyāsin, the Christian who entered Advaita, the man who burned until only God remained.In this book you will find: A rich narrative of Le Saux's life, faithful to history yet written with poetic stillness.The dialogue of Christianity and Hinduism expressed through lived experience, not theory.Evocations of sacred India-its rivers, mountains, and ashrams-seen through contemplative eyes.A vision of non-duality that unites East and West, love and silence, word and fire.For seekers, mystics, scholars, and lovers of interspiritual wisdom, this book is a doorway into the mystery of divine unity.When the two shores meet, the world itself becomes flame.