Pattern Viveka
Seeing the Gears of Reality
Pattern Viveka is a discipline of discernment for a world that no longer slows down. Rooted in Vedanta, this collection explores how patterns—not personalities—govern events, revealing the lawful forces, trajectories, and recurrences shaping culture, technology, and inner life. Its aim is not prediction or commentary, but orientation: learning how to see the world clearly without being overwhelmed by it.
Introduction to Pattern Viveka
Even with Self-knowledge, the modern mind can remain agitated by a world of constant crisis and noise. This essay introduces Pattern Viveka as a complementary sadhana: learning how to read duality itself. Drawing on Vedanta and systems thinking, it shows how seeing patterns, forces, and trajectories ends despair without collapsing into apathy—and restores clarity in an age of acceleration.
A seeker watches his country unravel and turns to a teacher for understanding. Their dialogue explores the forces of maya, karma, and the gunas that drive society’s confusion—and how dharma quietly restores itself through clarity, not outrage.
The American Mind - How the Gunas Shaped a Culture
A Vedantic analysis of the American psyche, revealing how rajas and tamas have shaped the nation’s myths, leaders, temperament, and cultural destiny.
A companion to “What is Evil and Why Does it Exist?”, this essay explores how fascism arises when tamas and rajas overwhelm sattva, why Ishvara’s order permits such darkness, and the dharmic responsibility that falls to witnesses in resisting it.
The World as It Is: A Vedantic View on Change, Chaos, and the Nature of Duality (Dharma Series)
This foundational essay introduces the three gunas—sattva, rajas, and tamas—as the underlying forces of nature and mind. It explains how history, culture, and individual psychology are all shaped by their interplay. Note: Even though this essay doesn't mention it, it's an early look at Pattern Viveka and more specifically, the role of the gunas.