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.

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.