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A curated series of essays and stories


A growing series of essays and writings that share a common thread—philosophical, psychological, or spiritual. Each collection offers a way to follow a line of inquiry over time, inviting reflection rather than resolution.

Foundations of Vedanta

A series of clear, accessible essays on the core principles of non-duality—exploring the Self, consciousness, ignorance, and the illusion of separation.

Vedanta Glossary

Offers accessible reflections on key Sanskrit terms, rooted in the nondual teachings of Advaita Vedanta.

The Dharma Series

Explores how the ancient concept of dharma can help us navigate a disordered modern world.

Pattern Viveka

Rooted in Vedanta, this collection explores how patterns reveal the lawful forces, trajectories, and recurrences shaping culture, technology and inner life.

Human 2.0

A Vedantic look at how AI, technological ambition, and digital culture are fueling a deeper spiritual crisis—one of identity, meaning, and ignorance mistaken for progress.

Illusions of the Age

Illusions of the Age explores the cultural and political masks of maya — the false realities shaping our time.

Hard Questions

Confronts the doubts, paradoxes, and tensions that often arise on the path of inquiry.

Modern Life

Essays on the psychic and spiritual costs of contemporary culture. This is a mirror held up to an age of noise, speed, and forgetting.

The Seeker's Handbook

Concise reflections on remembering clarity, and the lived side of Self-knowledge.

Short Stories

Fictional pieces that explore spiritual and philosophical themes through narrative, mood, and metaphor.

Future Unwritten Upanishads

What if the sages were alive today? Future Unwritten Upanishads offers glimpses of those conversations—sometimes serious, sometimes satirical, always pointing toward the eternal behind the absurd.

Between Series

A collection of independent essays from The Broken Tusk exploring history, art, and consciousness through a Vedantic lens. These writings don’t fit within a single series, yet each reflects the same inquiry into truth, perception, and the human condition.

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