Essays

Duality and non-duality are not opposing truths but complementary aspects of the same spiritual journey.

Let’s face it, “God” is an awkward topic for most westerners. God is rarely spoken of outside a house of worship and rarely, among...

Vedanta is sometimes criticized for being too intellectual. But it could be argued that without using your intellect you are like a...

Sometimes people get the wrong impression that in order to learn Vedanta well, you need to learn Sanskrit. In fact, you only need to...

Vedanta traditionally recommends yogic meditation as a preliminary discipline to help prepare the seeker for Self-inquiry. For this, it's...

What you’re sold in this world is a bag of rotten goods. The striving for more and bigger will never, ever lead you to the right place....

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. — Albert Einstein One of the principal teachings of Vedanta is to see that...

We thrive on stories, it’s the very air we breathe. From the moment we are able to speak and understand language, we are ingesting...

The wise grieve neither for the dead, nor for the living. —Bhagavad Gita, 2:11 We are all born in fear. We sense the vulnerability of a...