Seeing Through the Lens of Vedanta
NEW Vedanta in Plain English, Book 1: Who Am I, Really. Now available in paperback and eBook
PUBLICATIONS
A Vedanta Glossary
Scattered Jewels of a Wisdom Tradition
A beautifully illustrated, hardbound companion to the glossary on this site.
Coming Winter 2026
Vedanta in Plain English (Series)
Ancient Insights Made Accessible
Vedanta in Plain English was created to make the ancient insights of Vedanta accessible in clear, everyday language. These books are written for readers who are curious about consciousness but prefer clarity to mysticism. Each volume explores one facet of inquiry, using observation, psychology, and logic to uncover insights that the ancient texts reached by other means.
Book 1 - Who Am I, Really?
An Ancient Guide to Self-Knowledge
Book 2 - Why the World Feels So Real
Understanding Perception Through Vedanta
Book 3 - The Order of Things
A Vedantic Look at Karma and Causation
Book 4 - Living Wisely
How to Find Equanimity in a Changing World
Book 5 - Freedom Without Escape
The End of Seeking and the Discovery of Peace
SAMSARA
An Exploration of the Hidden Forces that Shape and Bind Us
In eastern spiritual and religious traditions, samsara is often used to describe worldly existence, the cycle of birth and death, or the transmigration of the soul from one incarnation to the next. But the concept of samsara is actually much broader and includes psychology, universal laws of nature, life’s illusory quality, and even the question of free will. In Samsara - An Exploration of the Hidden Forces that Shape and Bind Us, the author takes a look at the various aspects of samsara that influence our everyday experience and dares to ask, is life a setup? And if so, does it purposely push us toward the truth?
The Wisdom Teachings
of the Bhagavad Gita
The Secret to a Life Free of Suffering
The Bhagavad Gita (“The Song of God“) is one of the world’s most revered spiritual works due to its narrative approach, dispensing of practical guidance, and synthesis of non-dual wisdom teachings. However, the Bhagavad Gita is much more than an exemplar of ancient Hindu scripture, it’s a gift to humanity in the same way a comprehensive 700-verse compendium on modern medicine would be. It is the essence of the Vedas, an expounder of knowledge and a remedy for human sorrow. In The Wisdom Teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the author takes a cue from traditional Advaita Vedanta to provide commentary on the Gita in a way that helps unlock the teaching in clear, modern and practical terms. As a result, the reader is offered the original intent and utility of the Gita as a guide for living a life free of suffering.
A Conversation with an Atheist
An ancient, reasoned and radical approach to knowing God
In A Conversation with an Atheist, the author takes on the thorny topic of God. Countering religion’s simple faith-based answers to life’s biggest questions, the author uses everyday logic and the teachings of non-dual wisdom to make a clear case for God-knowledge over God-belief.
The book opens with a contentious dialog between an atheist and a sage who shares a vision of God that isn’t in conflict with reality. Taking inspiration from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita (“The Song of God”), the author shows that in order to understand God, we must first see it as two different operating principles before seeing it as a unified whole—what he calls God 1 and God 2. The result is a cognitive shift that changes not only our view of God, but how we view ourselves and our connection to each other and the cosmos.
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The Mirror of the Mind
A Vedantic Guide to Inner Clarity
Psychology polishes the mirror. It helps us feel better, function better, and understand the contours of our inner world. But it rarely asks the most important question of all: Who is looking into the mirror?
Drawing from classical Vedanta, cognitive science, and lived experience, this book invites readers beyond the confines of identity and self-improvement. Through themes such as ego, desire, suffering, emotional clarity, and love, it reveals how freedom is not something we earn, but something we uncover when the false is seen for what it is.
For anyone who has wrestled with their mind, sought healing, or glimpsed that peace cannot be found in becoming more—this is a book that doesn’t offer answers, but removes the questions that never needed asking.
The Broken Tusk
Seeing Through the Lens of Vedanta
The collection that started it all. This is not a book about Vedanta. It is a book through Vedanta—a way of seeing, a way of being. These essays arise not from theory, but from lived inquiry: the gentle, sometimes jarring collision between ancient truth and modern life. Here, samsara is found in traffic jams and warehouse stores; the Self is glimpsed not on mountaintops, but in the quiet undoing of assumptions.
Woven from insight and reflection, The Broken Tusk is less a treatise than a meditation—a collection of field notes from one who has stared long into the mirror of consciousness and dared to ask what is real. These are not answers handed down, but truths unearthed. Not abstractions, but the fragrance of understanding lived.
