ESSAYS

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.

Explore Vedanta’s Cosmic Man—not as a metaphysical myth, but as a teaching tool to understand the ego, the cosmos, and the formless Self behind both.

Karma theory in Vedanta is not the final truth—it’s a compassionate provisional teaching. It explains life’s seeming unfairness while slowly preparing the mind to outgrow the illusion of a separate self. Ultimately, Vedanta reveals that you were never the doer, never born, and never in need of becoming.

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.