ESSAYS

Svapna — the dream state in which mind projects a private world (pratibhasika satya). Gauḍapada and mainstream Advaita use svapna to reveal that waking too borrows reality; only the Self (turiya) is changelessly real.

Jagrat (waking state) — the field of outward awareness in which consciousness identifies with the body and perceives the gross world. In Vedanta, jagrat is mithya — a lawful projection within consciousness, no more real than dream, illumined by the same changeless witness.

There are two ways to renounce the world: one through shared restraint, the other through inner understanding. The Amish embody collective renunciation — a moral withdrawal from the noise of modernity — while the sannyasi represents inner renunciation, seeing the world itself as maya. Both point toward the same peace found not by addition, but by relinquishment.

A reflection on the real meaning of a sage in Vedanta — not a perfect being beyond duality, but one who returns to knowledge again and again. True peace isn’t constant; it’s recoverable through remembering.

A contemplative essay on the purpose of writing as remembrance. The Art of Remembering explores how words anchor consciousness against the drift of maya—how insight fades, returns, and becomes a quiet rhythm of awakening.

We’ve built a world that feeds on its own restlessness — economies of distraction, politics of belonging, technologies that promise completion but never deliver. Our hunger was meant to lead us inward, yet we’ve turned it into a global enterprise. Until we see that, the world will keep mistaking appetite for purpose, and noise for meaning.