ESSAYS

A provocative Vedantic essay exploring why the world, with all its chaos and contradiction, is exactly as it must be. Through vivid thought experiments, it reveals that perfection lies not in goodness but in completeness — that even ignorance, suffering, and death are necessary conditions for experience itself.

Ignorance is not the absence of knowledge—it’s the presence of misperception. In Vedanta, ignorance (avidyā) is what makes us mistake a rope for a snake, or the body for the Self. This essay explores the subtle but pervasive force that distorts reality, and how knowledge—not belief—dispels it.

Avidya is the root of suffering in Vedanta—a misperception that veils the Self. Learn how it arises, persists, and dissolves through knowledge.