ESSAYS

Adhyāsa means superimposition—the fundamental mistake of confusing the Self with the body-mind, and the world with reality. It’s the root of all suffering in Vedanta. Like seeing a snake where there is only a rope, we live under projections born of ignorance. Vedanta doesn’t ask us to escape the world, only to see it clearly.

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.

Will artificial super-intelligence ever become omniscient? This essay explores why—even at its most powerful—ASI can never reach the total intelligence Vedanta calls Ishvara.

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 often assume that intelligent people must also be wise—but history, experience, and spiritual insight say otherwise. This essay explores the difference between intelligence and wisdom through a psychological lens and a Vedantic perspective, revealing why the two are not only different, but often at odds.

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.