A Vedantic analysis of how extreme wealth amplifies ego, misidentification, and ignorance—revealing that the very people society admires are often the most profoundly bound.

Why does the world look unhinged? Vedanta’s answer is unsettling: the world behaves exactly as something built on ignorance would behave. This essay unpacks how avidya unfolds into society — and how clarity changes our relationship with it.

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.

Ignorance is not the absence of knowledge—it’s the presence of misperception. In Vedanta, ignorance (avidyā) is what makes us mistake a rope for a snake, or the body for the Self. This essay explores the subtle but pervasive force that distorts reality, and how knowledge—not belief—dispels it.

Avidya is the root of suffering in Vedanta—a misperception that veils the Self. Learn how it arises, persists, and dissolves through knowledge.