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Someone asked me why their meditation teacher keeps saying "we are all one" when we're obviously different people with different problems and different bank accounts. Well, both statements are true. And understanding why might be the most practical spiritual insight you'll ever come across.
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As a young girl, I was consumed by a burning need to find myself, to seek answers to questions I could not even fully articulate, and to understand my place in this world. That hunger drove me into intense sadhana. I became almost militant in my approach, juggling college, meditation,
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You buy a $500 Breville (a fancy coffee machine) because you think it'll make your mornings better. For the first week, it does. Perfect espresso, exactly the right temperature, that satisfying hiss of steam. You wake up looking forward to that first cup. The machine sits on your
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You've been trained your entire life to look for the single right answer. One God. One book. One prophet. One path to salvation. The structure is clear, the hierarchy is fixed, the questions are settled. Abraham's children—Jews, Christians, Muslims—all share this fundamental assumption: there&
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To establish the self in awareness, wisdom, and to be equanimous. This was my biggest takeaway from Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita. As a small child, a particular painting in my home always caught my attention. It was a painting of a watchful face, half obscured but strangely penetrating.
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Have you ever stood at the edge of the ocean and watched a single wave approach the shore? This one particular wave with its own shape, its own rhythm, its own moment of rising and crashing. It seems completely distinct from every other wave around it. Yet that wave is
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The Yoga Vasishtha, one of the greatest works of ancient Indian philosophy, is a conversation between the wise teacher Vasishtha and young Shri Ram. Composed millennia ago, this enormous scripture has more than 29,000 verses discussing the nature of reality, consciousness, and liberation. In contrast to better-known works such
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Consciousness is not merely awareness; it's the luminous backdrop against which the mind performs. The mind operates atop neural processes—like a conductor before an orchestra, but consciousness is the concert hall itself. The space that makes the performance possible. Our mental clutter obscures this fundamental relationship. We
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The Dravidian movement, led by self-proclaimed “revolutionaries” like E.V. Ramasamy (Periyar) and C.N. Annadurai has long positioned itself as the champion of Tamil identity, social justice, and self-respect. Yet beneath this facade of liberation and anti-Brahminism lies a more insidious agenda: the calculated whitewashing of Tamil’s deep
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Hinduism survived because it was decentralized. Unlike Buddhism, which tied its survival to monasteries and monks, Hinduism scattered its rituals and knowledge like seeds in the wind. No central gatekeeper. No single point of failure. Imagine 7th century — an invader storming into a peaceful Buddhist village. No weapons. No warriors.
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Today knowledge is unlimited yet wisdom remains rare. The internet has made expert knowledge available to everyone, yet the gap between what we know and what we do has never been wider. The Hindu yogis figured this out thousands of years ago: Jnana Yoga (knowledge) without Karma Yoga (action) is
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Hindu society stands alone in human history—an uninterrupted cultural continuity stretching back thousands of years. While ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome exist only in museums and texts, Hinduism breathes as a living organism. This isn't just survival. It is perpetual adaptation without abandoning its essence. The same