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A Fly on the Cart Wheel
Is free will an illusion?
A dialogue between friends — and an inquiry into the true nature of reality.
About the book
An overview.
A Fly on the Cart Wheel is a philosophical conversation dressed in everyday clothes. Two friends, an unhurried exchange, and a series of questions most of us are too busy to sit with — until, one day, we are not.
The book takes an old parable — the fly sitting on the wheel of a bullock cart, convinced it is turning the wheel — and holds it up as a mirror to the modern mind. How much of what we call 'our' doing is truly ours? And what would change if we glimpsed, even for a moment, the larger wheel we are riding?
Written in plain language and structured as a slow conversation, it invites the reader in as a third friend at the table — free to argue, to nod, to disagree, and slowly to arrive at a paradigm that naturally pushes life toward its highest purpose.
Why read this book
Who this book is for.
If free will and destiny are quiet questions that have followed you for years without resolution.
If you are ready to question assumptions you have carried since childhood without ever having chosen them.
If you want a philosophical inquiry that feels like a real conversation, not a lecture.
If you sense that the way you understand reality is quietly shaping every decision you make.
The ideas
Threads woven through the book.
The Parable
The fly and the wheel
Are we the ones turning the wheel of our lives — or riding a wheel already in motion, telling ourselves a flattering story about it?
Free Will
Choice, in its true dimensions
The book examines what genuine choice would even look like — and where the boundary lies between will and conditioning.
Reality
What we take for granted
A quiet dismantling of assumptions about time, self and cause we inherit long before we can question them.
Dialogue
Thinking together
Two friends model how philosophy is meant to be done — not shouted, not memorised, but tested in ordinary language.
A New Paradigm
The natural pull of clarity
Once a truer picture of reality begins to settle, life reorganises itself around purpose without needing to be forced.
Everyday Practice
Philosophy that lives
The book returns, again and again, to how these ideas land at the desk, the dinner table and the difficult conversation.
Get the book
Where to read it.
Available in paperback, hardbound and digital formats through the retailers below.
Reader response
Voices from readers.
"A book that stays with you long after you have set it down."
Selected reader reflections coming soon
About the author
Bhupendra Suri
Bhupendra Suri spent over three decades leading multinational businesses before dedicating himself to helping professionals discover purpose, build meaningful work and achieve genuine freedom.
His books explore the intersection of science, spirituality and human potential — and his work today, through the i2Infinity Freedom System™ and the Second Innings of Freedom™ movement, brings those ideas into the practical shape of a life consciously redesigned.
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