विशिष्टविविधीकरण | Viśiṣṭvividhīkaran: The Principle of Qualified Diversification

The duality inherent in the Supreme Reality is idiosyncratic and paradoxical: it is contextual and yet transcendent. Advaita Vedanta speaks of the material realm as being illusory, and a manifestation of the Supreme Reality under the influence of Maya – a veil of illusion and ignorance. Seeing the disregard for the illusory (which still had […]

Pratyāhāra Bhāṣya | प्रत्याहार भाष्य

Marianne Williamson, American author and activist, once said, The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self If a true Vedantin were to be asked, he/she would say that the fractured sense of self mentioned here is due to the identification […]

Jñanagaman: The Turn of an Age

The Coronavirus has brought a spurt of death and destruction in its wake. Having come to the fore in Wuhan – China, it has been spreading at an alarming rate, having crossed 5,00,000 cases worldwide. While it has not caused anywhere close to the casualties that, say, the 1918 Influenza pandemic did (with around 50 […]

Satyaniti and Swaraj

Society in the lands we know in modern times as India once was a society firmly placed on the twin-pillars of self-governance and voluntaryism [1-5]. Voluntaryism is a philosophy that posits that all forms of human association should be voluntary [6, 7]. A voluntaryst society is one where people live, socialise, transact and trade without […]

Satyatva: Resonances across Religions and Rejection of Exclusivism

The Absolute Truth, both, exists and exists-not! Paradoxical as this statement is, this is the underlying contradiction that truly defines the Absolute Truth. This is because the Absolute Truth transcends the relative, the subjective, the worldly, to the extent of transcending polarities and dualities. Existence is defined as per attributes, be it in expansion in […]

Rediscovering ‘Sunyata’: Unifying Buddhism and Vedanta

What if I say Buddha was a proponent of Vedanta? Blasphemous, some would say. Far-fetched, others may venture saying. However, if one were to base one’s understanding on purely spiritual, scriptural and historical aspects, one can see why I say so. Buddha came at a time when one had ritualism sans investing in the essence […]

A Note to my Fringe Detractors

There is a famous saying: The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Recently, after my interviews with Pgurus and the Infinity Foundation, apparently a group of insecure right wingers complained to them. Regarding how I had ‘duped’ both Sree Iyerji and Rajiv Malhotraji. Frivolous as this is, I want […]

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