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.

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.