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A contemplative essay on the purpose of writing as remembrance. The Art of Remembering explores how words anchor consciousness against the drift of maya—how insight fades, returns, and becomes a quiet rhythm of awakening.

A contemplative essay tracing the rise and fall of civilizations through the three gunas—rajas, tamas, and sattva—and how each age contains the seed of its opposite. From industrial ambition to digital exhaustion, history moves by polarity, yet within the chaos one can still cultivate a sattvic micro-climate of clarity and steadiness.

Neo-Vedanta arose from Ramakrishna’s mysticism and Vivekananda’s synthesis, but modern teachers increasingly sound like Advaita itself. Why Vedanta cannot bend to interpretation.

An essay exploring history as recurring pattern, not linear progress—how fascism, revolutions, and upheavals “rhyme” across centuries, and how Vedanta offers dispassion amidst chaos.

Christianity survived not because of its historical truth but because of its mythic power. In grief, followers of Jesus transformed their teacher into a savior, and empire turned the story into a unifying force. Asia, meanwhile, carried forward yoga and Vedanta as systematic methods of inquiry into the Self. This essay explores how myth overshadowed method in the West, why it endured, and what Vedanta reveals about the half-truths of religion.

Nisargadatta Maharaj was brilliant, blunt, and bewildering. To some, he seemed like a poor teacher, leaving seekers frustrated and confused. To others, he was a poet-philosopher whose presence and words worked like medicine. With help from David Godman’s recollections and a closer look at Maurice Frydman’s translation of I Am That, we can see him more clearly—not as a traditional ācārya, but as one of Advaita’s most radical improvisers of truth.

A methodical exploration of why, in Vedanta, the world is not ultimately real — backed by everyday science, clear definitions, and traditional teachings. This essay breaks down the argument step-by-step, from atomic structure to the nature of awareness, showing in detail how every object fails the test of “real” in the Vedantic sense.

Explore Vedanta’s Cosmic Man—not as a metaphysical myth, but as a teaching tool to understand the ego, the cosmos, and the formless Self behind both.

A personal essay tracing the path from artistic expression to spiritual insight. What began as a need to create evolved into a deeper desire to understand reality. Through meditation and the teachings of Advaita Vedanta, the search turned inward—toward the Self, the silent witness behind all thought and feeling.

Is prayer useful in Advaita Vedanta? Its usefulness depends on what you're praying for.

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...