ESSAYS

Health is dharmic when it is stewardship, not worship. Bryan Johnson’s “Don’t Die” mantra reveals how health culture slips into maya — the obsession with youth, metrics, and immortality. True health is sattvic: clarity, balance, and freedom, not bondage.

America’s decline is not just political or economic—it is spiritual. A host of –isms have seduced the nation: consumerism, nationalism, narcissism, exceptionalism, and more. Each promised freedom, but delivered illusion. Vedanta reveals them for what they are: masks of maya, binding us to appearances while hiding the truth.

Ajāta-vāda is the Advaita doctrine of non-origination, teaching that the world and the individual soul are never truly born. From the highest standpoint, there is no creation, bondage, or liberation—only brahman, ever unborn and free.

Adhikāritva refers to the inner preparedness of a student for Vedānta—the maturity of mind expressed in discrimination, dispassion, self-discipline, and sincere longing for liberation. Without these, the highest knowledge cannot be fully grasped.

They may sit on thrones and command armies, but they are not free. Trump, Putin, the billionaires and manipulators of the modern world — these are not sovereign beings, but puppets of māyā. Caught in illusion, driven by compulsion, they are ruled by what they cannot see. This essay explores the deeper truth behind worldly power, contrasting the false sovereignty of rulers with the quiet clarity of the liberated.

We praise the "light," but rarely understand it. Sattva is not morality, though it favors goodness. It is not peace, though it brings calm. It is not wisdom, though it makes knowledge possible. It is light—subtle, luminous, and intelligent. It is the quality of clarity in a mind, the reflective power that allows awareness to be known. Without sattva , even the most noble teaching remains opaque. With it, a single word can pierce illusion. Sattva is one of the three gunas ,