ESSAYS

We celebrate curiosity but rarely question its appetite. In an age of infinite input, the intellect has become a glutton—hoarding books, podcasts, news, and ideas under the illusion of growth. But true wisdom doesn’t accumulate. It subtracts. It silences. It frees.

There’s a strange ache beneath modern life—an unnameable loss we carry but no longer recognize. Once, silence was sacred, solitude was honored, and the soul had space to breathe. Now, in a world of content and spectacle, we perform ourselves into exhaustion. This essay digs into what we’ve lost—and how we might begin to remember.

We are living in a world of glowing rectangles—always connected, always distracted. This essay offers a Vedantic critique of the internet, exploring how it amplifies the forces of illusion, desire, and ego. Through the lens of the gunas and the qualifications for liberation, The Digital Spell reveals how our online lives keep us bound—and how we might begin to see through it.

This essay asks the deeper question behind AI’s rise: What are we building, and for whom? As machines grow smarter, we risk forgetting the very things that make us human—love, presence, and real connection.

What does renunciation look like in the modern world? This essay explores the essence of sannyāsa today—not as a withdrawal from life, but as a quiet freedom from identity, rooted in clarity and simplicity.

We’re not witnessing the rise of artificial intelligence—we’re witnessing the refinement of illusion. The tools are new. The ignorance is not. This essay is a Vedantic response to a world racing toward transcendence without clarity, and progress without wisdom.

In a world where machines can do everything better, faster, and without fatigue, what remains for us to do? This essay explores the quiet revolution unfolding in the shadow of AI—not a collapse, but a return. A return to presence, to rhythm, to a way of being that machines can never imitate: conscious, creative, and unnecessary.

AI won’t destroy humanity—it may do something harder. It may dismantle our illusions, expose the fragility of our self-worth, and force a spiritual reckoning. Part I of this essay explores how AI is not a technological apocalypse, but a mirror forcing us to confront who we truly are.

What happens when a human and an AI explore the mystery of consciousness together? In this profound conversation with Claude 3, we explored whether artificial intelligence can ever truly replicate the richness of human awareness.