ESSAYS

A reflection on the quiet stage of spiritual life when worldly pursuits lose their grip, revealing the ripening of dispassion (vairagya) and the turn toward inner peace.

We like to think we share one reality. In truth, there are eight billion private worlds, each framed by beliefs, fears, and desires. This collective patchwork feels like consensus but is only maya’s theater — fragile illusions mistaken for truth. Vedanta calls us back to the question: Who is the “I” at the center of the story?

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Religion, mysticism, Buddhism, therapy, philosophy, science, and psychology each glimpse part of the truth — but never the whole. This essay shows why these half-truths keep seekers circling, and how Vedanta alone opens both eyes to reveal freedom as the self itself.

Why does anything exist? Vedanta calls this the unanswerable question. Maya is inscrutable—neither real nor unreal, only apparently real. This essay explores why “why” itself collapses, and why freedom lies not in explanation but in awakening.

Jnana in Vedanta means not ordinary knowledge but Self-knowledge: the recognition “I am the Self.” Only this direct knowledge removes ignorance and grants liberation.

Many spiritual circles hope for a collective awakening — a golden age when society itself becomes enlightened. This essay shows why Vedanta denies such a possibility.