ESSAYS

They may sit on thrones and command armies, but they are not free. Trump, Putin, the billionaires and manipulators of the modern world — these are not sovereign beings, but puppets of māyā. Caught in illusion, driven by compulsion, they are ruled by what they cannot see. This essay explores the deeper truth behind worldly power, contrasting the false sovereignty of rulers with the quiet clarity of the liberated.

What looks like chaos is a mechanism. Open the back of history’s watch and the mad king, the court, and the crowd appear as gears moved by Maya and regulated by dharma.