ESSAYS

A provocative Vedantic essay exploring why the world, with all its chaos and contradiction, is exactly as it must be. Through vivid thought experiments, it reveals that perfection lies not in goodness but in completeness — that even ignorance, suffering, and death are necessary conditions for experience itself.

Samatvam in Vedanta means equanimity—balance of mind amid pleasure and pain, success and failure. It is not suppression but clarity, the natural poise of one established in Self-knowledge.

In Vedanta, dvandva refers to the pairs of opposites—pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame—that bind the mind to maya. This entry explores their origin, meaning, and transcendence through Self-knowledge.

Neo-Vedanta arose from Ramakrishna’s mysticism and Vivekananda’s synthesis, but modern teachers increasingly sound like Advaita itself. Why Vedanta cannot bend to interpretation.

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?