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The difference between immature and mature dispassion (vairagya) in Vedanta. Learn how dispassion evolves from frustration and disappointment into clarity, equanimity, and freedom through knowledge, discrimination, and silence.

This reflective essay contrasts two ways of living: as a puppet unconsciously moved by ego and conditioning, or as an instrument consciously aligned with a higher order. Drawing from Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita, it suggests true freedom lies not in control, but in surrendering the sense of doership.

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

Vedanta is sometimes dismissed as too intellectual, yet it’s the intellect—properly trained and guided by right knowledge—that becomes the seeker’s greatest ally against suffering. This essay explores how inquiry, discrimination, and Self-knowledge transform the mind from a victim of circumstance into a clear instrument of freedom.

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

life?​​ Vedanta isn’t here to impress the intellect or prove a metaphysical point—it’s here to end suffering. Its radical claim is simple: you are already what you seek. The problem isn’t lack, but misidentification.

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

Most people chase happiness in objects—money, status, beauty—but Vedanta reveals why this pursuit is doomed from the start. This essay exposes the traps of samsara and shows how self-knowledge leads to real freedom.

Vedanta teaches that all objects are mithya—impermanent, dependent, and only apparently real. Backed by science and subtle reasoning, this essay shows how everything we experience is constructed in the mind and ultimately resolves into awareness.

We live and breathe stories—they shape how we see ourselves and the world. To some, Vedanta may appear to be just another one. But unlike ordinary narratives, Vedanta is a precise means of knowledge that ends the search for meaning by revealing what has always been true.