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.

A contemplative essay tracing the rise and fall of civilizations through the three gunas—rajas, tamas, and sattva—and how each age contains the seed of its opposite. From industrial ambition to digital exhaustion, history moves by polarity, yet within the chaos one can still cultivate a sattvic micro-climate of clarity and steadiness.

An imagined interview with Shankara on a once-powerful nation in decline. His timeless Vedantic insights reveal why societies collapse and why the Self remains untouched.

An essay exploring history as recurring pattern, not linear progress—how fascism, revolutions, and upheavals “rhyme” across centuries, and how Vedanta offers dispassion amidst chaos.

Tamas is the guna of inertia, veiling, and heaviness. It obscures knowledge, breeds lethargy and confusion, yet also provides stability and rest. In Vedanta, tamas must be transformed into sattva to prepare the mind for Self-knowledge.

Rajas is the guna of movement, passion, and projection. It drives action but binds the mind through desire and dissatisfaction unless guided by dharma and Self-knowledge.

Svabhava means “one’s own nature.” In worldly life it refers to tendencies shaped by gunas. In Vedanta, one’s absolute svabhava is identical with svarupa — Brahman, pure existence-consciousness-limitlessness.

Triguṇa yoga is Krishna’s teaching in the Bhagavad Gita about sattva, rajas, and tamas. By observing their play and cultivating sattva, the seeker prepares for Self-knowledge, ultimately recognizing the Self as beyond all guṇas.

We praise the "light," but rarely understand it. Sattva is not morality, though it favors goodness. It is not peace, though it brings...

There is a strange weather in the mind. Sometimes clear, sometimes agitated, sometimes heavy with fog. These fluctuations are not random—they are the play of the gunas, the three powers of maya: sattva, rajas, and tamas. These universal forces shape not only the cosmos but also our thoughts, emotions, and desires. Understanding them is key to managing the mind and stepping out of its spell.