Modern Life
Essays on the psychic and spiritual costs of contemporary culture. From the loss of the sacred to the digital trance to the quiet revolt of renunciation, this is a mirror held up to an age of noise, speed, and forgetting.
Loss of the Sacred: How Modern Life Forgot
There’s a strange ache beneath modern life—an unnameable loss we carry but no longer recognize. Once, silence was sacred, solitude was honored, and the soul had space to breathe. Now, in a world of content and spectacle, we perform ourselves into exhaustion. This essay digs into what we’ve lost—and how we might begin to remember.
Under the Digital Spell - A Vedantic Critique of the Internet
We are living in a world of glowing rectangles—always connected, always distracted. This essay offers a Vedantic critique of the internet, exploring how it amplifies the forces of illusion, desire, and ego. Through the lens of the gunas and the qualifications for liberation, The Digital Spell reveals how our online lives keep us bound—and how we might begin to see through it.
Modern Sannyasa: A Quiet Life in the World, but Not of It
What does renunciation look like in the modern world? This essay explores the essence of sannyasa today—not as a withdrawal from life, but as a quiet freedom from identity, rooted in clarity and simplicity.
The Intellect as Glutton: On Knowing Too Much and Understanding Too Little
We celebrate curiosity but rarely question its appetite. In an age of infinite input, the intellect has become a glutton—hoarding books, podcasts, news, and ideas under the illusion of growth. But true wisdom doesn’t accumulate. It subtracts. It silences. It frees.