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Freedom and Happiness: Why Rebellion Alone Cannot Bring Inner Freedom
Freedom and Happiness: Why Rebellion Alone Cannot Bring Inner Freedom
14 min
Modern culture often celebrates rebellion, travel, and endless experiences as symbols of freedom and happiness, but they can become just another form of conformity. Genuine personal development begins with mindfulness and creating the right mind space to understand oneself. Without inner clarity, changing places, trends, or identities only repeats old patterns. True freedom comes from self-understanding, not from chasing new experiences or fashionable rebellion.
Can OCD, Anxiety and Depression Be Healed from Within?
Can OCD, Anxiety and Depression Be Healed from Within?
13 min
Bullying hurts deeply only when it is allowed to define one's inner identity. External abuse may wound the body, but lasting psychological wounds require inner participation. While OCD, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions deserve proper treatment through psychiatry, lasting freedom demands self-knowledge.
Climate Change and Global Warming: The Hidden Carbon Emissions of War
Climate Change and Global Warming: The Hidden Carbon Emissions of War
24 min
Climate change and global warming cannot be addressed honestly while the world's largest source of hidden carbon emissions—military activity—remains largely excluded from climate accountability. Wars, military expansion, and consumerism arise from the same psychological drive for domination and endless consumption. Unless the Paris Agreement includes military emissions and humanity addresses the inner causes of conflict, every effort to combat climate change will remain incomplete.
I am Successful, High Achiever — Life Still Sucks
I am Successful, High Achiever — Life Still Sucks
11 min
Success achieved under pressure or conditioning is not true success because the goal was never truly one's own. Before chasing any achievement, one must ask whether the desire is authentic or borrowed from society. Real change comes not from becoming stronger but from gaining clarity and honesty about oneself. Young people are already capable; what keeps them trapped is the comfort of obeying external expectations. Life is too short to spend serving invisible masters instead of pursuing what one genuinely loves and understands.
The Spotless Kingdom: What the ‘Clean’ Countries Conceal
The Spotless Kingdom: What the ‘Clean’ Countries Conceal
14 min
The developed world often presents itself as clean by shifting pollution, waste, and environmental costs to poorer nations rather than eliminating them. Real cleanliness is not the absence of visible dirt but the absence of the ego that creates and conceals it. Laws, technology, and appearances can regulate behavior, but without inner transformation, societies merely relocate their destruction instead of ending it. A truly clean civilization is one that reduces consumption, acts from responsibility rather than image, and confronts the pollution within before claiming purity outside.
The Hidden Cost Of Every Scroll
The Hidden Cost Of Every Scroll
12 min
Social media has not destroyed attention spans; it has exposed our dissatisfaction with what we consume. The real problem is repeatedly returning to content we already know is empty instead of respecting our own intelligence. Books are only one medium for knowledge, not knowledge itself. What truly matters is reclaiming attention from distractions, demolishing the borrowed mental structures imposed by society, and creating an inner space where meaningful learning, reflection, and self-knowledge can flourish.
I Am Angry, Very Angry - at How You Are Hurting Yourself
I Am Angry, Very Angry - at How You Are Hurting Yourself
39 min
Technology has amplified human power, but not human consciousness. The real crisis is not a lack of scientific progress but the unchanged, ego-driven center using it. Education today trains people to consume and achieve, not to understand themselves. Unless self-knowledge grows alongside external knowledge, every technological advance risks becoming a more powerful instrument of greed, violence, and planetary destruction.
You Didn't Find God. You Invented Him
You Didn't Find God. You Invented Him
36 min
True religion is not built on belief but on inquiry, honesty, and direct understanding. Belief arises from fear and psychological convenience, while genuine spirituality questions every assumption and verifies truth through lived experience. Devotion is surrender to Truth, not to imagination or ritual. A free, responsible mind discovers the sacred within through self-observation, making wisdom—not blind faith—the foundation of both religion and a meaningful life.
Marriage Without Consent: Why Can't Even Educated Women Say No?
Marriage Without Consent: Why Can't Even Educated Women Say No?
14 min
Women cannot be truly liberated through education, income, or legal rights alone if they remain psychologically identified with socially conditioned ideas of “womanhood.” While external barriers may fall, inner bondage persists through inherited identities, roles, and expectations. Real freedom begins not by rejecting the body, but by seeing oneself primarily as a conscious human being rather than a gendered identity, because lasting liberation starts at the root of self-identification.
Congratulations. You're The Perfect Prisoner.
Congratulations. You're The Perfect Prisoner.
18 min
The ego is not a real, independent entity but a bundle of conditioning that creates the illusion of a separate "I" and becomes the source of suffering. Self-observation is not introspection or analysis but moment-to-moment honesty about what is happening within. Real freedom comes when this false center is seen through, allowing life to function naturally without the burden of psychological ownership.
Stop Calling It Love
Stop Calling It Love
7 min
Love is not a special emotion reserved for selected people or relationships but a way of relating free from self-interest, possession, and psychological dependence. Most relationships become transactions driven by insecurity, where the ego seeks completion through ownership and exchange. Genuine companionship arises without the urge to control or claim another, allowing affection to exist naturally, freely, and without conditions or expectations.
The Search Kabir Saheb already ended
The Search Kabir Saheb already ended
9 min
Kabir Saheb's message questions the very act of searching for fulfilment outside oneself. Whether through religion, relationships, success, possessions, or identity, people keep assuming that what is missing lies somewhere else. The problem is not the destination but the belief that fulfilment exists at a distance. Real freedom begins when the search turns inward, recognising that the seeker and the sought were never truly separate.
Gita as Casteist and Misogynist? Strawmanning at Its Worst
Gita as Casteist and Misogynist? Strawmanning at Its Worst
14 min
The Bhagavad Gita is often accused of supporting caste and misogyny through selective quotations that ignore context, grammar, and the text's central teachings. A closer reading shows that its emphasis is on inner qualities, conscious action, and spiritual equality rather than birth-based hierarchy or gender discrimination. Misinterpretations arise when isolated verses are detached from their broader meaning, while the Gita consistently points toward self-knowledge, freedom from ego, and the universal possibility of liberation for every human being.
Oxford meets Vedanta
Oxford meets Vedanta
8 min
Life cannot be transformed by knowledge of the external world alone; it also requires understanding the one who experiences it. Science, technology, and logic are powerful, but they remain incomplete without self-knowledge and inner honesty. Lasting solutions to personal and global crises emerge when the same rigor used to study the world is turned inward, examining one's motives, intentions, and consciousness with equal seriousness.
An Indian Philosopher At The UK Parliament
An Indian Philosopher At The UK Parliament
16 min
Real change begins not by changing the world alone but by understanding the one trying to change it. Laws, technology, policies, and scientific progress have value, yet they cannot solve problems rooted in human consciousness and endless desire. Truth remains the same across cultures and disciplines, requiring only a change in language, not in essence. Lasting solutions emerge through honesty, self-inquiry, and inner transformation, because no external system can replace a change in the human mind.
Why Yoga and Meditation Don't Fix You
Why Yoga and Meditation Don't Fix You
17 min
The mind is not an independent entity but a structure built and maintained by the ego through thoughts, memories, beliefs, and experiences. Most spiritual practices fail when they become distractions from examining the ego itself. Experiences, emotions, and preferences are often conditioned and unreliable. Real inquiry begins with observing the experiencer, admitting facts without distortion, and applying the same rigor to inner life that science applies to the external world.
The Man in Coma Dreams of Changing the World
The Man in Coma Dreams of Changing the World
12 min
Most people move through life unconsciously, mistaking inherited beliefs, ambitions, and social conditioning for personal choice. Careers, relationships, goals, and even identities often arise more from habit and circumstance than from conscious understanding. Real freedom begins by questioning the actor rather than the action, examining the assumptions behind one’s choices, and awakening from the psychological “coma” in which life is merely happening rather than being consciously lived.
India Boils, Cities Cross 45°C — Are We Really This Suicidal?
India Boils, Cities Cross 45°C — Are We Really This Suicidal?
18 min
Humanity continues to increase emissions despite clear warnings about climate catastrophe. The crisis is not merely technological or political but rooted in endless human consumption and the belief that happiness comes from material accumulation. Development and basic needs are not the problem; blind pursuit of growth is. Lasting solutions require a deeper understanding of human desire, because environmental destruction begins in the mind before it appears in the atmosphere.
Switzerland’s ten million: What a ceiling cannot survive
Switzerland’s ten million: What a ceiling cannot survive
6 min
Switzerland’s rejection of a population cap was not simply a vote on immigration but a reflection of a deeper difficulty: defining what is “enough.” Despite wealth, stability, and low birth rates, economic interdependence made limiting growth politically and practically costly. The episode highlights a broader human tendency, individual and collective, to keep expanding goals and expectations, while rarely questioning the endless pursuit of more or asking where growth should finally stop.
The body bends, the year turns: What Yoga Day forgets to ask
The body bends, the year turns: What Yoga Day forgets to ask
10 min
True yoga is not primarily about physical postures but about examining the ego, attachments, and motivations that shape one’s life. While the body can be trained and displayed, real discipline lies in honestly questioning desires, ambitions, and borrowed goals. Techniques and routines alone cannot bring inner freedom. Yoga begins when one repeatedly investigates who is setting the direction of life and whether that direction has ever been consciously examined.
She Thought She Had Life Figured Out. She Didn't
She Thought She Had Life Figured Out. She Didn't
20 min
Materialism and emotionality are not opposites; emotions themselves often arise from material desires, fears, and biological conditioning. The real distinction is between the material-emotional world and spiritual understanding. Spirituality is not another belief, emotion, or acquisition but the clear observation of thoughts, desires, and assumptions. Many personal and social crises stem from unexamined beliefs, and meaningful change begins by questioning them, speaking truthfully, and paying attention to what occupies the mind.
"I was a Hardcore Hindu - and now I don't like Religion"
"I was a Hardcore Hindu - and now I don't like Religion"
24 min
Human beings are born into uncertainty, surrounded by beliefs, identities, and social conditioning that offer ready-made answers to fundamental questions. Real spirituality begins not with accepting collective or personal beliefs, but with honestly examining one’s own suffering, fears, and false identities. The journey is not toward comforting ideas, but toward self-inquiry, where truth is discovered through questioning, observation, and the gradual rejection of illusion.
Doctors: Why Respect Is Disappearing
Doctors: Why Respect Is Disappearing
21 min
A society that loses its sense of sacredness begins to see every person and profession as merely transactional. When truth is replaced by the pursuit of happiness and consumption, trust erodes and cynicism becomes the norm. Doctors, teachers, and institutions are no longer respected but viewed with suspicion. The deeper crisis is not medical or social but philosophical: without self-understanding, people become consumers first and human beings second. True respect can return only when truth, integrity, and inner education become more important than personal gain.
Who Is the One Who Knows?
Who Is the One Who Knows?
18 min
Science and philosophy arise from different kinds of inquiry. Matter seeks continuity of state, while the ego seeks continuity of existence and constantly changes identities to preserve itself. Fear, danger, and suffering are rooted in the ego’s sense of “I,” not in material reality itself. Questions are valuable because they expose hidden beliefs, and genuine learning requires challenging assumptions through inquiry, dialogue, and self-examination.
I Hold Her, I Own Her, Yet I Feel Insecure
I Hold Her, I Own Her, Yet I Feel Insecure
15 min
Modern relationships often create more insecurity, not less, because people are conditioned to seek completion, validation, and identity through another person. Social institutions, media, culture, and tradition continuously reinforce the idea that fulfillment lies in romantic attachment. As a result, relationships become driven by dependence rather than love. Real companionship becomes possible only when one is inwardly at peace and not using another person to fill an inner void.
Does Vedanta Hold The Solution To The World's Crises?
Does Vedanta Hold The Solution To The World's Crises?
7 min
A civilisation can achieve extraordinary success in technology, science, wealth, and exploration, yet still move closer to conflict, ecological crisis, and inner dissatisfaction. The missing piece is understanding the human being who creates, chooses, invents, and consumes. Technology and policy can improve efficiency, but they cannot resolve the endless psychological drive for more. Climate change, overconsumption, and misuse of innovation arise from an unexamined human center. Lasting solutions require large-scale self-education, honesty, and deeper awareness of human motives, because the root of global problems lies not only in systems and tools, but in the consciousness that operates them.
The Colonial Question: Ego as The First Coloniser
The Colonial Question: Ego as The First Coloniser
20 min
Colonialism is not only a historical event but a recurring psychological pattern. Empires succeed when individuals surrender inner authority and allow external forces to think, choose, and decide for them. Political independence alone cannot end colonisation if the mind remains dependent on ideology, superstition, social conditioning, or authority. Real freedom begins with self-awareness, personal responsibility, and the continual refusal to hand over one’s judgment to any external ruler.
A prayer in British Parliament: The one Question no law can reach
A prayer in British Parliament: The one Question no law can reach
10 min
India’s deepest contribution is not culture, ritual, or tradition, but the inquiry into the self. Laws, technology, policy, and economic progress can improve external conditions, yet they cannot resolve the inner hunger that drives conflict, consumption, and ecological crisis. Real change begins with self-knowledge, honesty, and awareness of the one who chooses, desires, and acts. Without understanding the self, progress remains incomplete, no matter how advanced society becomes.
NEET Was the Answer. Nobody Asked Her the Question
NEET Was the Answer. Nobody Asked Her the Question
16 min
Freedom begins when a person stops handing over the authority of life to others. Society, family, and tradition can offer opinions, rewards, or disapproval, but they cannot truly stop someone unless there is inner dependence on their approval. Many conflicts that appear external are rooted in psychological dependence, fear, greed, obligation, or the desire for validation. Clarity does not come from controlling every outcome; it comes from ensuring that decisions are not driven by inner confusion, and then allowing life to unfold naturally.
Truth Behind Acharya Prashant’s 60 Million Subscribers
Truth Behind Acharya Prashant’s 60 Million Subscribers
37 min
Sixty million followers do not necessarily indicate a transformation in consciousness. Large numbers may reflect persistent outreach rather than deep commitment. Truth is often avoided not through opposition but through indifference, convenience, and self-deception. Real change requires sustained effort, inner honesty, testing one's understanding, and the courage to face uncomfortable truths instead of seeking comfort, validation, or easy inspiration.
I Know I'm Not Mediocre, But How To Always Be At My Best?
I Know I'm Not Mediocre, But How To Always Be At My Best?
16 min
Operating from the highest inner point means living with honesty rather than self-created illusions. The ego becomes “higher” not through mystical growth but by dropping false self-images and testing its claims against reality. When honesty weakens, lower motives take control, creating inner conflict and disorder. Real growth lies in continuously questioning oneself, facing uncomfortable truths, and preventing the ego from being driven by comforting but deceptive beliefs.
World Environment Day: The hunger no forest can fill
World Environment Day: The hunger no forest can fill
10 min
Nature’s crisis is not driven only by technology, corporations, or policy failures, but by a deeper pattern of endless consumption rooted in human dissatisfaction. Forests, rivers, and even environmental causes are often turned into tools for personal identity and comfort. Real ecological change begins when people honestly examine the desires behind their choices and act from awareness rather than habit, guilt, or the need for more.
The Football Does Not Score Goals. Neither Do You
The Football Does Not Score Goals. Neither Do You
21 min
Freedom is often assumed to be the ability to choose, yet most decisions arise from conditioning, biology, social influences, and habit. Real freedom begins by seeing how mechanical and unconscious life usually is. As awareness deepens, confusion and endless options gradually diminish, making life simpler and more direct. Liberation lies not in imagining freedom, but in recognising and understanding the forces that keep one bound.
Motherhood: Choice or Compulsion, Autonomy or Anatomy?
Motherhood: Choice or Compulsion, Autonomy or Anatomy?
12 min
Inner freedom becomes impossible when identity is borrowed from family, friends, or social expectations. Fear, guilt, and pressure arise because people allow others to define their worth and choices. Relationships become healthy only when they support growth rather than control it. Real autonomy comes from self-understanding, continuous inner inquiry, and the courage to act from clarity rather than conformity. When there is inner certainty, labels, criticism, and social judgment lose their power.
What Cambridge kept asking: The crisis has a centre
What Cambridge kept asking: The crisis has a centre
18 min
Technological progress has expanded human power, but the inner motives driving that power remain largely un-examined. Climate change, over-consumption, inequality, and social crises persist because efficiency and policy address symptoms while leaving desire untouched. Real change requires education that helps people understand themselves, not just the world around them. Without self-knowledge, better tools merely amplify old patterns, turning progress into a more sophisticated form of the same crisis.
Beat Your Wife, But Don't Break Her Bones
Beat Your Wife, But Don't Break Her Bones
29 min
Women's oppression survives not only through external control but also through the internal acceptance of identities imposed by society. Freedom cannot be permanently granted from outside; it must arise from an individual's own sense of dignity, agency, and responsibility. While laws, institutions, and support systems matter, lasting liberation begins when people stop defining themselves through inherited limitations and choose to assert their own consciousness, freedom, and self-worth.
Does Your Partner Love You, Or Just Own You?
Does Your Partner Love You, Or Just Own You?
11 min
Love is not attraction, possession, dependency, or a transaction driven by personal gain. As long as relationships arise from insecurity, ownership, or the desire for psychological completion, they remain centered on the ego. Love is simple, natural, and free of self-interest, flowing without preference or exclusion. The ego seeks security, continuity, and suffering because they preserve its identity, while freedom and joy threaten its existence. A meaningful life begins when one stops repeating old patterns, accepts uncertainty, and chooses freedom over the comfort of familiar cages.
Climate Collapse Is Closer Than You Think
Climate Collapse Is Closer Than You Think
17 min
Climate denial is less about ignorance and more about refusing to face uncomfortable truths. Environmental destruction reflects narrow self-interest, collective confusion, and a failure to see the connection between inner values and outer consequences. The greatest burden falls on the poor, future generations, and other species. Lasting solutions require a change in human consciousness, not merely technological or political fixes.
What Deserves Your Whole Life?
What Deserves Your Whole Life?
17 min
True dedication does not feel like painful sacrifice. When a goal becomes love, unnecessary distractions quietly lose importance instead of being forcefully abandoned. Personal growth and contribution to society are not separate; meaningful work naturally benefits both oneself and others. Real freedom is not outward performance but inner clarity. Life should be measured by inner elevation, not by comparison with others’ achievements.
Cash for Pregnancy: When Love Gets Political
Cash for Pregnancy: When Love Gets Political
16 min
Climate change, population policies, and social conflicts often arise from a common source: narrow love. People, communities, and nations justify actions that benefit their own group while overlooking broader consequences for humanity and the planet. True care is not exclusive or identity-based; it is expansive and inclusive. Even motherhood, patriotism, and family concern can become limiting when reduced to narrow self-interest rather than guided by wisdom, freedom, and universal responsibility.
Why We Cling To What Hurts Us?
Why We Cling To What Hurts Us?
18 min
Fear, social conditioning, and painful memories often shape how people live and make choices. True growth begins by questioning inherited beliefs, refusing to remain trapped by past wounds, and acting from understanding rather than conformity. What appears to be sacrifice is often just the abandonment of conditioned habits. Freedom comes not from external systems, but from the courage to see clearly, learn, and move beyond fear.
The Slaughter You Choose Not To See
The Slaughter You Choose Not To See
10 min
Public outrage often focuses on visible ritual slaughter while ignoring the far larger, everyday suffering embedded in industrial meat and dairy systems. Milk, meat, and animal killing are deeply interconnected through supply chains that remain hidden from view. The deeper question is not about isolated acts but about the human tendency to avoid examining the consequences of habitual consumption and the assumptions that make such avoidance possible.
Climate crisis: When comfort masquerades as immunity
Climate crisis: When comfort masquerades as immunity
18 min
Climate change is often treated as a problem that affects others, while comfort and wealth seem to offer protection. Yet rising heat, floods, failing infrastructure, food insecurity, disrupted labor systems, and ecological decline are already affecting everyday life. Air conditioners, gated communities, and economic privilege cannot shield people from collapsing natural systems. The crisis is shared, and no individual or class can remain truly insulated from its consequences.
Small Boys, Big Toys
Small Boys, Big Toys
13 min
Entrepreneurship is often driven by the same urge for accumulation that shapes human life from childhood-chasing bigger numbers, status, and validation without self-understanding. This leads to hollow pursuits where profit replaces purpose. True fulfillment arises not from external success, but from inner clarity. When one understands oneself, work becomes meaningful, and money shifts from being the goal to merely a tool.
Women: Beyond Every Conditioning
Women: Beyond Every Conditioning
13 min
Curiosity and honest questioning do not oppose love; they deepen understanding. Blind obedience creates dullness, while genuine inquiry keeps the mind alive and engaged. True questioning is not self-defense but a sincere search for clarity. Most people remain psychologically hypnotized by fear, entertainment, and ego, yet a small conscious voice within always seeks truth. Real change begins when one chooses love and self-realization over fear and self-preservation.
Burning Desires, Burning Planet
Burning Desires, Burning Planet
34 min
The climate crisis is not merely an external environmental problem but a reflection of inner human greed, desire, and psychological disorder. Drawing from the Gita’s idea of yagya as desireless action, it says real ecological healing requires inner transformation. Outer pollution, exploitation, and destruction mirror the ego’s inner confusion, making personal consciousness and planetary health deeply inseparable.
Free The Nipple Movement - Does Nudity Really Liberate Women?
Free The Nipple Movement - Does Nudity Really Liberate Women?
7 min
The debate around nudity and movements like “Free the Nipple” miss a deeper issue: true freedom is not about clothing, but freedom from psychological conditioning and body-based identity. Clothes themselves neither oppress nor liberate. A truly free society is one where the body becomes ordinary and irrelevant, not a source of obsession, shame, validation, or social control.
An Energy Crisis In Disguise
An Energy Crisis In Disguise
16 min
India’s energy crisis may not be only about oil prices, imports, or climate change. The article argues that beneath these visible problems lies an invisible one: a society endlessly trying to fill inner insufficiency through consumption. Cars, gold, travel, upgrades and endless wanting are not merely economic choices; they reflect a deeper restlessness. The real deficit may not be in fuel reserves, but within the human mind.
The Terms She Never Chose To Live By
The Terms She Never Chose To Live By
10 min
The dowry violence is not a social “exception” but a natural outcome of how marriage is treated as a transaction between families. Using a recent dowry death case in Bhopal, it shows how ego, status, tradition, and family expectations disguise financial negotiations as duty and honour. Laws may punish individuals, but the deeper structure — where relationships become arrangements for security and social gain — remains largely unquestioned.
Gen Z Wants to Rebel — But This Is What It Misses
Gen Z Wants to Rebel — But This Is What It Misses
8 min
Will another revolution really change anything, or are we just changing faces while keeping the same consciousness intact? The article argues that societies often rush toward rebellion because it feels easier than responsibility. We blame systems, governments, and institutions, but the deeper crisis lies in the collective ego that creates them. Without inner education and self-understanding, every revolution risks becoming another cycle of the same story.
NEET crisis: The Wound Beneath The Wound
NEET crisis: The Wound Beneath The Wound
10 min
Why are twenty-two lakh students competing for a few thousand seats? The crisis may not begin with leaked papers, but with a culture that teaches young people what to chase without helping them understand why they are chasing it. When education becomes a race for titles, positions, and approval, success turns into survival and failure into collapse. The missing subject may not be in the syllabus, but in the student.
Sanatan: Tradition Loudly Possessed, Quietly Unread
Sanatan: Tradition Loudly Possessed, Quietly Unread
28 min
What if the loudest debates around Sanatan are happening between people who have never truly examined what they are defending or attacking? The article argues that the conflict is rarely about the philosophical core of Sanatan Dharma and more about labels, identities, and inherited assumptions. A tradition built on inquiry is often reduced to slogans, while its deepest questions remain quietly unread.
The Marriage We Settled For
The Marriage We Settled For
10 min
A Mother’s Day reflection examining marriage, gendered labour, loneliness, and the inherited architecture of emotional expectations. Most marriages do not begin in clarity, but in fear, fear of loneliness, social judgment, and inner incompleteness. Two people come together not to understand themselves, but to manage each other’s emptiness through roles, routines, and silent expectations. The arrangement may work for decades, yet beneath the stability survives an unexamined loneliness that no ritual or relationship can truly dissolve.
Super Monday: Boredom As Ballot, Spectacle As Sovereignty
Super Monday: Boredom As Ballot, Spectacle As Sovereignty
23 min
When people vote, are they really choosing wisely, or just getting bored of the old face and excited by a new one? Governments change, parties collapse, new heroes rise, yet the deeper problems remain the same. The article argues that elections often reveal not political maturity, but the restless ego constantly searching for a new object to cling to, without ever examining itself.
Loneliness Epidemic: Do You Really Need Someone?
Loneliness Epidemic: Do You Really Need Someone?
8 min
Is loneliness really the absence of people, or the crowd of images and ideas inside us telling us that we “need someone” to feel complete? Two incomplete people cannot create wholeness together. Relationships are beautiful, but only when they do not become substitutes for inner completeness. Relate to the world, connect deeply, but never use another person to fill your inner hollowness.
Modern Women, Ancient Conditioning
Modern Women, Ancient Conditioning
14 min
Todays educated and financially independent woman says, “I am free,” yet still feels deeply confined within. Why? Because external freedom alone does not dissolve inner conditioning. The old idea of “womanness” still sits at the center of identity. Real liberation begins when one stops seeing oneself merely as a gendered body and starts living as human consciousness first.
The Enemy We Cannot Afford To Lose
The Enemy We Cannot Afford To Lose
10 min
Why ceasefires often spark grief, resentment, and identity crises instead of collective relief. The end of violence should feel like relief. Yet ceasefires often produce grief, anger, even resentment. Why? Because the enemy does more than threaten us, it gives identity, unity, and the promise of vindication. When conflict stops, many feel robbed of something unfinished. The real loss is not war itself, but the dependence on an enemy to know who we are.
The Bill The Planet Has Been Paying For You
The Bill The Planet Has Been Paying For You
7 min
Every summer India gets hotter, but have we asked who lit the fire? Petrol, plastic, cheap convenience, endless growth, we paid the price, but never the full cost. The real bill was shifted to rivers, forests, mountains, and the children yet to inherit this world. We consumed capital and called it profit. This is not just a climate crisis, but a crisis of desire. The bill has arrived. Will we open it?
Future: Escape or Transformation Opportunity?
Future: Escape or Transformation Opportunity?
11 min
Do you get stuck between hope and fear while thinking about the future? The problem isn’t the future, but your intention. Most people look ahead just to remain who they are. The right approach is to use the future as a chance to change. When the goal is truly challenging, there’s no time left to worry or expect results—only to act fully.
The Evil of Caste System
The Evil of Caste System
11 min
Do you still feel the need to know someone’s caste? That urge itself is the problem. Caste exists neither in the body nor in consciousness; it is a construct of the mind. Society keeps it alive because the ego thrives on division. Until you see a person simply as a person, caste will persist. The real solution lies in understanding and dropping inner ignorance.
Freedom Beyond Systems and Power
Freedom Beyond Systems and Power
21 min
You look at Iran, at revolutions, and ask: can systems really bring freedom? Revolutions keep replacing one system with another, yet the chaos remains. The real question is rarely asked: what within us creates these systems? Real freedom is not political or social; it is inward. Without inner change, every revolution only rotates power, never resolves suffering.
Reserved Seats, Unchanged Cages
Reserved Seats, Unchanged Cages
10 min
Women’s reservation means little unless society first transforms the lives women actually inhabit. More seats for women promise progress, yet the structure beneath remains unchanged. Representation grows, but the same families, same control, and same limitations persist. A woman may enter Parliament yet remain bound in her personal life. Without changing the ground that shapes her identity and choices, reservation risks becoming a surface shift, not real freedom.
The Wound That Equality Cannot Heal
The Wound That Equality Cannot Heal
18 min
Feminism challenged external oppression, yet the deeper wound remains untouched. Rights, representation, and power have increased, but a woman often still sees herself through the same objectifying lens. The issue is not just social but internal. Without self-inquiry, change only shifts roles, not bondage; the cage remains, merely better furnished.
Spirituality Is Clarity, Not Intoxication
Spirituality Is Clarity, Not Intoxication
5 min
Many so-called spiritual practices falsely promote intoxication as a path to higher consciousness. In reality, this only deepens confusion. True spirituality is about clarity and self-understanding, not external experiences or blind belief. Neither gurus nor media can offer truth. It must be discovered within by honestly observing and rejecting inner falseness, with awareness and sincerity.
If 87% Suffer, Why Is Caste Still Alive?
If 87% Suffer, Why Is Caste Still Alive?
15 min
If most people are oppressed, why do unjust systems still survive? Because the oppressed themselves unknowingly support them through inner ignorance. No structure can sustain without the participation of those it exploits. Real change cannot begin outside; it must begin within. When individuals see clearly and refuse to remain complicit, the system collapses. Blaming the system is easy, but transformation demands responsibility for one’s own life.
Gen Z Isn't Cool, It's Just Conditioned
Gen Z Isn't Cool, It's Just Conditioned
40 min
Gen Z isn't rebellious or individualistic - they're simply following their generation's conditioning, just as previous generations followed theirs. Real rebellion begins with honest inquiry into why you live as you do. The primitive restlessness driving all humans remains unchanged; only its expression differs. True freedom requires questioning borrowed desires, recognizing that your ambitions, tastes, and choices aren't genuinely yours. Vedanta teaches this: stop chasing false questions and confront who you actually are beneath all conditioning.
What the IPL Spectacle Really Feeds
What the IPL Spectacle Really Feeds
18 min
The ego seeks borrowed identity to avoid facing itself. The IPL franchise provides this escape, belonging without inner work. Yet this mechanism extracts a cost: attention stolen from genuine engagement, emotional energy flowing toward strangers who don't know the spectator exists. The entertainment apparatus thrives on inner poverty. When the match ends, the emptiness remains. Real questions accumulate, unexamined, while the spectator runs toward the next season's distraction.
The Child as the Ego’s Credential
The Child as the Ego’s Credential
10 min

Originally published in The Sunday Guardian on 12 apr '26

Ask any parent and she will say, without hesitation, that she wants her child to be free: to find her own path, to live her own life, to become herself. Most parents mean this. And yet the same parent will…

Why Do Nations Fight?
Why Do Nations Fight?
14 min
Global conflicts stem not from geopolitical interests but from the ego's fundamental incompleteness. Nations are merely expressions of collective egoic consciousness. Leaders represent humanity's worst tendencies, not its average. The ego requires duality and boundaries to survive. True disarmament means detoxifying the ego itself. External wars reflect internal disturbance. No diplomatic solution addresses the root cause, only wisdom and self-knowledge can dissolve the ego's need for conflict and separation.
Beyond Self: Cricket, Consciousness, and Collective Survival
Beyond Self: Cricket, Consciousness, and Collective Survival
50 min
Saurabh Netravalakar, a software engineer and cricketer, discusses balancing multiple pursuits with Acharya Prashant. They explore how hidden wastage of time and energy prevents genuine progress. The conversation extends to team sports teaching ego-dissolution, broadening identity beyond self-interest, and addressing planetary crises through inner transformation. They examine how religion's core purpose—freedom from suffering—unites humanity despite different practices, and discuss practical solutions to environmental exploitation through proper pricing and intent.
One Truth That Ends Overthinking
One Truth That Ends Overthinking
11 min
Overthinking trivial matters stems from inner emptiness. Fill your life with something genuinely important, a worthy cause, a meaningful pursuit. When you're truly immersed in what matters, random anxieties lose power. Develop strong inner immunity through purpose, not by fighting thoughts. Like Bhagat Singh, marry yourself to something noble. Immersion in the essential is the best meditation and antidote to mental suffering. Without importance, life becomes scattered doing nothing in particular.
You Are Recycled, Not Young
You Are Recycled, Not Young
13 min
You are not truly young, you carry centuries of inherited beliefs, prejudices, and conditioning. Youth is the ability to change and create the new, not follow fixed patterns. Before asking what to do next, question and free yourself from the past. Only by breaking from inherited constraints can genuine freshness emerge.
Who Controls Your Mood?
Who Controls Your Mood?
4 min
Our mood is always dependent on others and situations. Results have not been up to your expectations. So now you require a morale booster, some motivating speaker. The moment that fellow is gone, your energy also goes away. But there is another way of living. Deep within myself, I find a point that no external situation can touch. Whatever happens, happens on the surface. That will remain stable, uninvolved, a non-participant. Then you are really free.
Love Lies Beyond Patterns
Love Lies Beyond Patterns
20 min
Love has to be seen as the need of the mind, the attraction of the mind towards Peace, towards rest. All attraction is there only with a desire; the hope is of fulfilment. So when the mind says ‘love’, along with love it has a picture of love. How do you know that somebody loves you? Only if he behaves according to set patterns. When real love comes to us, we close our gates to it. Love is not with a particular man or woman; Love is the natural state of the mind.
Are We All A Little Bipolar?
Are We All A Little Bipolar?
4 min
What do you call as ‘bipolar disorder’? Is this disorder fundamentally not present in everybody? Mind lives in dualities; that is what you call as the ‘poles’. Sitting on one pole you feel attracted to the other. There is always a need to change and become something else. Won’t it be great to firstly understand the mind itself–its urges, its actions? There has to be determination to go into the route of the swings, desires and urges, to be free and well. And it is quite possible that the right medication need not be a pill.
Clarity: The Only Way to Live
Clarity: The Only Way to Live
8 min
Who is a practical man? One who understands before acting. To be practical means to understand and put it into practice. If my work, my action, and my practice is arising out of clarity, then I'm practical. Clarity is not some state, clarity is not some picture and clarity is not ideal. Clarity is not something to be achieved. Clarity is your inherent ability - your very nature to understand, to know, that is called clarity.
Shiv: Beyond History And Myth
Shiv: Beyond History And Myth
6 min
Shiv isn’t a person who existed at some point in time. Shiv isn’t confined to a specific place. Stories are sometimes useful pointers to the truth, but in our ignorance, we take the pointers themselves as history, facts or Truth. Shiv is the joy of pure consciousness. When false identifications and attachments are dropped in the light of self-knowledge, what remains is called the untainted essence of Shiv.
What Does Valentine’s Day Really Mean?
What Does Valentine’s Day Really Mean?
19 min
The kinds of meanings that we associate with love are actually quite demeaning. It’s not your own self-interest that you think of in love. Love is not an emotion; love primarily is a spiritual understanding. Saint Valentine would not be quite pleased with the meanings we have associated with his name and his day. The saints laid down their lives so that our faulty definition of love could be corrected, and that is probably the best use this day can be put to: correcting the definition of Love.
Geopolitics: The Ego’s Grand Theatre
Geopolitics: The Ego’s Grand Theatre
9 min
Nations often behave remarkably like insecure individuals. Every new weapon is the ego trying to insure itself against its own fragility. When the boundary feels violated, nations behave the way any organism does. On the collective level, it becomes nation against nation. The collective reacts rather than reflects. No realignment of alliances, no new world order will resolve what is fundamentally a crisis of self-knowledge.
Why Scandals Shock Us, And Shouldn’t
Why Scandals Shock Us, And Shouldn’t
15 min
A scandal is not a new revelation. It is a long-overdue and grudging declaration of our inability to keep ignoring what was already there all along. The question, then, is not why the scandal surfaced, but how it remained hidden at all. And why something so obvious and axiomatic required loud exposure before it could be acknowledged. When power is held without inner clarity, it is put to the meanest and lowest kinds of use, usually away from public view. That is why it is not seen, and why delusion persists.
Can You Act From The Heart?
Can You Act From The Heart?
7 min
The world is a crooked place. You will have to be zig-zag, tangential; that is the nature of the world. Realization of crookedness is the only straight thing possible. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. Once you know that the straight One, the innocent One, is sitting in your heart, then you no more feel the need to display a fake straightness. Now you can get rid of all morality. Whatever you are doing is coming out of your love and compassion or just enjoyment.
Why Economics Fails Without Spirituality?
Why Economics Fails Without Spirituality?
10 min
If you do not understand spirituality, you will fail even in economics. Look at how common people live their daily lives. Do we inquire into what we are doing? We do things because others are doing the same things. Out of ignorance, you act; and out of greed, you keep acting. Economics does not address the problem of ignorance. Economics also does not address the problem of greed. It is the Upanishads and the Gita that address these problems.
Are You Lazy or Are You Conditioned?
Are You Lazy or Are You Conditioned?
8 min
When you don’t want to do something, you feel lazy. All your wants emanate from your conditioning. Have a sharp look at what you call your ‘wants’. Our ‘wants’ are just an expression of how we have been programmed; they are not our ‘wants’ at all. Wanting and realizing are very, very different dimensions. Act on the basis of your intelligence, on the basis of your realization. Laziness is just a symptom of the effects of conditioning.
Does Love Need A Certificate?
Does Love Need A Certificate?
7 min
Real Love is a very pure thing. It is pure and it purifies. If you really love her, forget about the families, you won’t even bother whether she loves you, because Love does not demand anything in return. Forget about marriage or anything else. You love, you know love, and that is all, sufficient. Love unconditionally, and then a way will emerge. Unconditional Love is very, very intelligent, and knows no fear. It knows where the solution is, it will find a solution.
Ignorance Is Not What You Think
Ignorance Is Not What You Think
3 min
Ignorance is not about not having some particular knowledge. Ignorance is not an absence; ignorance is having knowledge. That which your mind is full of is ignorance. Ignorance is your basic sustenance. In such a situation, this utterance, “In reality, you are the One,” I repeat, must not be taken as the Truth in the sense of an affirmation. It is a method to help you drop that which fills you up. All it is telling you is this: “You are an entire universe sitting in your mind; you are not that.”
Be Honest: What Are You Actually Bowing To?
Be Honest: What Are You Actually Bowing To?
14 min
Often, in the name of financial pressure, what we are really kneeling down to is something else. But because that something else is not nice enough to be named, what we quote is financial pressure. Nothing is ever forced in a tangible way. The way is kept gentle in appearance. But there is something else at work inwardly. What is that thing? That is what you have to uncover. You have to be honest towards yourself, very honest.
We Study Things, Not Ourselves
We Study Things, Not Ourselves
6 min
I am asking you, who is more important? The mobile phone or the man holding the mobile phone more important? Unfortunately, your education is such that it will tell you everything about the mobile phone, but nothing about the man. They ask you to keep looking outwards but they never tell you to look inwards. Self-education is more valuable than the rest of your education put together. Has your education ever brought you close to yourself? Now you decide what is more important.
Want to Be Happy? Become Sad!
Want to Be Happy? Become Sad!
4 min
All happiness that your mind feels is directly proportional to how unhappy you are. So, if you want to be really happy, become totally unhappy. This is called the law of duality. The deeper your pain, the more relieved you will be. That is the nature of the mind. When you are moving towards happiness, actually the journey towards unhappiness has begun.
Can Ambition Ever Be New?
Can Ambition Ever Be New?
4 min
All of us want a new future. But the brain cannot want anything new. How many of you would want to taste a dish like Kakatua? Forget about tasting it, you haven’t even heard the name before. So, there is a golden rule: all desire is nothing but a stale repetition of memories. Ambition is nothing but a repetition of the past. What you didn’t know in the past, you can’t want in the future. New is new only when it is totally unrelated to the past. The truly new comes as a surprise.
What Makes India Worth Loving?
What Makes India Worth Loving?
9 min
For most people, India is just a bit of land, a boundary on the global map, a political entity. These are not things you can fall in love with. To love, there must be something sacred, something worth worshipping. The identity of India, the root of the Indian nation is essentially spiritual. India has been a nation because of its Vedantic foundation.
Are You Truly Religious?
Are You Truly Religious?
10 min
If you are religious, then shouldn’t you be truly religious? Religion is about a total commitment to the Truth. You’ll have to recognize that the objective of religion is not to attain heaven, not to please a holy figure, but to come to your own inner Truth. All good books exist to awaken your consciousness. When it comes to you and the Truth, do you want somebody in between? And wherever you spot fakeness, falseness, hollowness or ignorance, drop it.
The Roots Of Indian Philosophy
The Roots Of Indian Philosophy
8 min
There is a search within the human being, always for the greatest, the absolute, and that is what differentiates humans from animals. India was fertile, and there was abundance. You had ample leisure, and in that leisure there was space for intellectual inquiry. The sages and the seers would talk to each other purposelessly. And from that purposeless discussion, from silent observation of life for hours, days, months, and years, came those insights that you today recognize as Indian philosophy.
Martyr's Day Wisdom
Martyr's Day Wisdom
5 min
Death is already happening moment by moment. Why think that it is there somewhere in the future? We are all going in the same direction: a journey towards death. You cry not at the fact that somebody died, but at the fact that life was not lived fully. We have had a mystic who said that death should be celebrated. When everything about this man was joyful, how can his death be painful? There would be no reason to cry; death can be celebrated.
How To Get Clarity?
How To Get Clarity?
19 min
Clarity is not a state. Clarity is like clean air, air free of pollutants. It is not something you arrive at. It is not a finality. There is a lot that you believe in, and you must keep testing it and rejecting it. You can never say, “I have achieved clarity.” It is a lifelong process, because pollutants keep entering the air continuously. So you have to keep clearing the air continuously. That is the process.
From Caveman to Greenland: The Hunger That Never Left
From Caveman to Greenland: The Hunger That Never Left
9 min
From 1945 to today, consumption drives war beneath peace globally. We have continued to be exactly the same as we were on the day of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That war happened because the various powers wanted to consume. Have we changed internally? If not, how can there be peace? The problem is not in the structures of thought or governance. The problem is within.
A Death Equal to Life
A Death Equal to Life
12 min
A dignified life includes a death of dignity. If everything in life must be subject to your conscious choice, then so must be your death. Death is not something that we should ever leave to chance. Choice must not lie only in extending life, choice must lie also in ending life. That decision cannot be made in a moment of desperation or despondency. Let your life be high and let your death be an equal to your life.
How to Make India Invincible?
How to Make India Invincible?
13 min
India was a superpower in all possible terms and yet those lowly little Britons came here and colonized us. Is it possible? There is something fishy in the story. We don't want to go back and really read and figure out what really happened. We believe in this narrative: we were great, we were ‘Vishwaguru’. How can the land of the Gita be ever defeated? It was due to internal reasons that we got defeated and enslaved. And those reasons are still very much present today. Which means the fault is entirely our own.
Why Wisdom Comes Last in Democracy?
Why Wisdom Comes Last in Democracy?
7 min
You see, the democratic system is a great one, but there are some problems associated with it. The leader comes from the masses, and the masses, by themselves, are never really attracted to wisdom. Have you ever found a voter asking his leader, “How many Upanishads have you read?” before casting a vote. The leaders know very well what they can ignore. They just want to know what your religion is, and what your caste is. That is why wisdom always comes last.
The True Women Empowerment
The True Women Empowerment
13 min
Women do not need sympathy, reservation, or compensation; they need awakening. Victimhood may offer temporary advantage, but it slowly erodes dignity and strength. Education that stops at jobs and numbers fails both men and women. Unless education addresses the inner fear, insecurity, and ignorance that sustain oppression, no policy can truly empower the girl child.
How Did Bhagavad Gita Help Subhash Chandra Bose?
How Did Bhagavad Gita Help Subhash Chandra Bose?
10 min
There is no revolution possible without the Gita. That’s the reason why even those who are not remembered particularly for their spiritual inclination, people like Subhash Chandra Bose, even they founded their core on Gita. What kind of revolution can you do if it’s the body that’s always at the top of your mind? You require a Gita to tell you that this body is perishable and would anyway go. Gita only teaches you, "Endure and fight."
The Lust to Consume
The Lust to Consume
11 min
All consumption comes from this ecosystem, this planet and in the lust of our blind consumption, we destroy life for everybody. As technology progresses, you will probably be able to consume more with impunity.There is a consumption that is needed for basic physical sustenance and comfort,then there is consumption that happens for entirely different psychological reasons. It is the second type of consumption that I am always worried about.
AI Is Not the Problem: We Were Already a Machine
AI Is Not the Problem: We Were Already a Machine
9 min
Machines are not becoming human; humans have been living like machines. AI merely exposes the mechanical nature of lives driven by repetition, imitation, and borrowed identity. What cannot be replaced is not skill but consciousness. Where there is originality, suffering, love, and the longing for liberation, no algorithm can enter. The question was never about artificial intelligence; it was about whether we were alive at all.
Does God exist? The ego’s favourite shield
Does God exist? The ego’s favourite shield
13 min
When we ask, “Does God exist?” the ego feels intelligent. The believer says ‘Exists’ and clutches scripture; the atheist says ‘No’ and clutches logic. Both feel relieved. But both forget to ask what “exist” even means. Whatever exists is, first certified by me. So who is this one demanding verdict? The question survives because the questioner is never questioned.
What's The Right Action?
What's The Right Action?
9 min
When I say, “I want the right action,” surely I have an image in mind. That image is coming from the past. But the right action, by definition, is one that cannot come from the past. Please remember that whenever something really right happens in life, it does not happen as a result of one’s decision. The really good, the right action, happens on its own, provided you do not become the decision-maker and the actor.
Why Guilt Doesn’t Transform?
Why Guilt Doesn’t Transform?
6 min
Guilt says, “I am better than how and what I did.” Right? There need not be any imagination in this. Far better than guilt is the realization of one’s actual state. And once you realize where your choices and decisions have brought you, there is a certain sublimation. That honest realization does not shout too loudly, but it has great power. For that power to arise, you first have to acknowledge where you really are.
Are We Really Special?
Are We Really Special?
16 min
We have a great interest in claiming that there is something special about us. But there is nothing special. We too are just machines made of material, just a system. And this system, in the course of evolution, has now given birth to another system, which you call artificial intelligence. But calling it artificial is just vanity. We too are equally artificial. This “I” feeling that we carry is just a product of our physical constitution.
Is AI Making Us Dumb?
Is AI Making Us Dumb?
22 min
We are very conveniently leaving ourselves more and more at the mercy of technology. But we have to understand that AI operates on data, and data is provided by human beings. If we are dumb, our data will reflect that dumbness. AI has done what it’s programmed to do, but are you doing what you are born to do? You are the user, the ego. And the ego always has a choice. If you don’t exercise choice, there is no elevation; then there is no difference between man and stone.
Grief Is Our Denial of Death
Grief Is Our Denial of Death
17 min
When the person is dead, you remember that person. But when the person is alive, do you remember death? Who is not dying every moment? Please tell me. Then why do you want to believe that the person, as you see him right now, would be carried over to the future? No one gets carried over to the future. No one. Death has to be seen as a fact, not a fact at the end of a string, but as a present reality. It is not death that scares us. Unlived life is what we grieve for.
Why the New Appears So Old
Why the New Appears So Old
11 min
The desire for the new is genuine. What we call new is almost always the old in fresh wrapping. The calendar changes; the person does not. A digit shifts from five to six, yet the one who reads it remains imprisoned in the same patterns, the same desires, the same fears. New programmes, new resolutions, new routines; none of it works. We upgrade everything, phones, jobs, partners, cities, and the one who remains untouched by all this upgrading is the one who needed transformation the most.
Venezuela and Bangladesh: Two Theatres, Same Actor
Venezuela and Bangladesh: Two Theatres, Same Actor
11 min
Violence never arrives announcing itself as violence. It comes wrapped in duty, in faith, in law, in nation. First, it asks for your moral consent. Only then does it spill blood. The actor I’m pointing to is not a nation, it is the human ego that converts harm into virtue. The theatre changes but the play remains the same. Only the costumes are updated; the script is ancient.
If Vivekanand Comes Alive Today
If Vivekanand Comes Alive Today
36 min
We love to talk of Swami Vivekananda as a youth icon. And I am asserting that were he to be here today, it is the youth that would resist him the most. When he returned from the United States, a huge procession greeted him, right at the port. But when he asked for just a hundred people who could be his soldiers, he was denied. Nobody wants to accept a Swami Vivekananda. He was resisted then, he would be resisted even today.
This is Meditation, Really?
This is Meditation, Really?
9 min
“Immersing myself in deep meditation.” What do you mean by meditation? And who is being immersed? Please tell me, beyond a trick of words, what is this? But you’ll never ask these questions, because some Baba-ji totally dominated your faculty to question with his get-up and demeanour. Real spirituality is not about something that sounds elevated or respectable. Whenever you are bombarded with high-sounding fluff, learn to ask this question; what exactly does that mean?
You Call This Love?
You Call This Love?
30 min
I have desires and you are the means to fulfill those desires. That’s why I come to you and I say I’m a loving person. This is not love. Most of that which we call love is actually just self-interest. A lot of our comforts, conveniences and identities depend on the other; therefore, we want to hold the other. Real love is possible only when you know that the other cannot bring anything to you. You relate to the other to share, not to gain.
Whose Goal Are You Chasing?
Whose Goal Are You Chasing?
13 min
I am being told to work hard, but not for myself. I am being told to slog for something I don’t really care for. This is the situation of each one of us: no purpose and high pressure. The very system is designed to rob you of having any innate, heartfelt purpose of your own. Pressure alone is not the problem. The very nature of a great purpose is that it brings pressure, but such pressure now is life-saving, even life-giving, because you love what you want to achieve.
Still Carrying the Past?
Still Carrying the Past?
13 min
We keep carrying the unexamined burden of the past all our life. That’s a great problem that we have. If you want to carry something from the past, if you want to remain related to it even today, then you have to ask: how does it benefit you? Because it’s an expensive decision to make. The purpose of life is to unburden yourself. Relate to something or somebody in a way that will help you clear away a lot of useless relationships.
Sustainability Crisis: Why Humans Consume Endlessly
Sustainability Crisis: Why Humans Consume Endlessly
9 min
Why the question of sustainability is relevant only to our species, out of the billions of species on this planet? Because we have a hollow inside us, and that hollow demands to be filled. So we want more and more manufactured products, more meat, more luxury, more money. And the sad part is, none of that really succeeds in fulfilling you. But you still want to consume endlessly. And that endless consumption, arising from a spiritual point, is what the sustainability crisis is today.
Is Rejecting Authority Really Intelligent?
Is Rejecting Authority Really Intelligent?
5 min
It’s a great thing not to be submissive to authority. One doesn’t needlessly bow down, because that would be detrimental to one’s interests. So, it’s all right if you are careful. But being careful is one thing, and becoming psychotic about that is another thing. Obviously, let’s try on one’s own first. But we all know how limited we are beyond a point. And when we come to that point, one needs to look beyond herself, that one needs to seek help.
Man Is Climate Change
Man Is Climate Change
7 min
I am hungry, I am dissatisfied, I want to consume. And I do not know what it is that would appease me, make me happy, quench my thirst, so I will try out everything. If you have this big a hole in your heart, what else will you do? You will use the entire universe to plug this hole. That is what man has been doing. He wants to eat up everything. The very basis of climate change is the constitution of man himself. Man cannot help climate change; man is climate change.
Are We Really Selfless?
Are We Really Selfless?
17 min
Oh, we are so selfless towards our kids, come on, and then we expect compliance and returns and obedience, basically ROI. It becomes very difficult to explain to the other that, no, you cannot act selflessly, not because of you, but because you are Homo sapiens. Our species is not designed to act selflessly. Therefore, trying to practice Nishkam Karma (selfless action) without knowing what the “Self” is, is actually self-deception, not selflessness.
Women Sacrifice More in Relationships?
Women Sacrifice More in Relationships?
11 min
Women, the way they are brought up in our country, anyway do not have much to lose. If I do not have much in life, and then there arrives a person who is attractive, earns well, is strong, then why, as a woman, will I not go for him? Your body is impelling you to take a particular decision, and you don't even know that it's coming from the body. The only solution is understanding, real, deep, honest observation of life. And this you could also call spirituality.
Fed Up With the Old?
Fed Up With the Old?
4 min
The mind has been living for long in patterns. It knows no other way of being. The movement of patterns is gross. The movement of egoless action is very subtle, and the habituated mind will initially fail to notice it. You will have to wait like one waits for a lover. Do not expect that the new action, the new voice, the new guide will be of the same type, the same nature as the old one. This will be new, really new. Be ready to be surprised.
What Is Joy?
What Is Joy?
19 min
Joy is not something that you can think of as something wonderful. You cannot go somewhere and say that, looking at a mountain, I experienced joy. Joy is something which is always there, obfuscated; hence, it is the absence of obfuscation. A complete absence of all rubbish is joy, and that rubbish includes both pleasure and pain.
Who Owns Your New Year Celebrations?
Who Owns Your New Year Celebrations?
26 min
If I do not know what I want, what can be sold to me? Anything. How do you know you need anything you aspire for? No, no, that need is artificial. And not knowing yourself, you are blissfully unaware that the need is an implanted thing. Remember, the seller is not selling you just his goods. He’s also selling you the need to buy his goods.
What Is a Silent Mind?
What Is a Silent Mind?
6 min
Ramana Maharshi says, “Silence of the mind is higher than the silence of the eye and the ear,” because even if the eye and the ear are not compulsive about sucking in sensual inputs, still something will reach the mind. A silent mind is the one that is not under any internal pressure, any internal compulsion to react to what comes to it. Stuff has come; the mind says, “Alright, you have come. I am inert towards you. I am non-reactive!” “Real silence is silence of the mind.”
Nothing Is Beyond Inquiry
Nothing Is Beyond Inquiry
15 min
Beliefs can’t talk to each other. You will say, ‘The world was created on a Sunday.’ He’ll say, ‘No, on a Monday.’ He’ll say, ‘Tuesday.’ He’ll say, ‘Wednesday.’ Now talk, how will you reconcile this? You can only fight. Why do you need to believe? You look at the question, "What should I believe in?” Well, nothing.
Rape: Not an Incident, A Continuity
Rape: Not an Incident, A Continuity
17 min
If you leave yourself weak and vulnerable, you are submitting to the ecosystem of rape. What’s worse? It won’t even be reported. The first thing is: empower yourself through education, through exposure, through wisdom. When it comes to sexual urges, no lessons of morality really succeed. You’ll just be left complaining to the benevolent power up there, “You know, I’m such a pious woman. Why was I violated?” Because that’s how it happens in the jungle. That’s the answer. That’s all.
A Guru’s Helplessness
A Guru’s Helplessness
5 min
You can tell someone, “Kid, this is the path of destruction. Leave it!” But you cannot forcefully pick the kid up and take her away. You know something is not right for the other person, and yet you can’t help her from doing it. You can’t give up, you can’t get angry, and you can’t stop what is happening. Great powerlessness. That’s how a Teacher feels.
Observation: An Honest Acknowledgement
Observation: An Honest Acknowledgement
6 min
If you close your eyes and write, do you need to see what you have written? Observation is an honest acknowledgement: “This is what I’m writing.” It is a subtle thing of honesty that happens on its own. What obstructs it is your determination, your stubborn resolve not to see the inner fact. That’s what you have to dispense with. “I refuse to buy the arguments of the false.” Once you refuse that, then the inner fact is obviously visible.
Jesus: The Highest Potentiality of Adam and Eve
Jesus: The Highest Potentiality of Adam and Eve
8 min
Adam and Eve are people with a body and choice. ‘Garden of Eden’ is the state of bliss that one enjoys as long as one keeps making the right choice. ‘Tree of Knowledge’ is the intellect that has an ego as its root. ‘Bitten Fruit’ is taking sustenance from intellect rather than God. Jesus is that man who is not quite a man because he is left with no choices, he is the highest potentiality of Adam and Eve.
Beyond Victory and Defeat
Beyond Victory and Defeat
8 min
Be in love with your work and give it just everything that you have. The quality of the relationship must be so high that you are left choiceless in attending to it. Once you have given it all that you have, you will be left with very little time, space, or energy to bother about the result. “I gave everything that I had; now it is difficult to differentiate between defeat and victory.” Live so intensely that, in the end, you are left with no energy to be concerned with the result.
Shruti Philosophy: The Hinduism That Stands Forgotten
Shruti Philosophy: The Hinduism That Stands Forgotten
9 min
The test is straightforward. Whatever aligns with Shruti is dharma. Whatever defies Shruti, however old or beloved, is not. Shruti demands only one thing: self-knowledge. Everything else is ornamental. Without Vedanta, Hindu identity risks becoming ritual without philosophy, sound without meaning. Offering flowers may express devotion, but it is not Sanatan Dharma. Seeing the Self is.
How Men Actually See Women
How Men Actually See Women
14 min
The tiger chases the buffalo calf and brings it down. Does that disappoint you? No, because that was expected. Similarly, expect animal behavior all the time from everyone around you, including yourself. Everything we do comes from the jungle, so don’t be disappointed. Disappointment always arises from expectations. You really have to strive to be someone who is not an animal. And the first step in that striving is to address your own inner animal.
Meditation Can be Dangerous
Meditation Can be Dangerous
10 min
This breath-in, breath-out, stomach-in, tummy-out; this is not meditation. Even animals do not need training in breathing, and we are being taught how to breathe. What’s going on? You know, you should breathe mindfully. Why? Is there anything wrong with your breath? Meditation is nothing but an observation of the naked inner fact. That is meditation. To stand naked and honest in front of what is, that is meditation.
Messi’s GOAT Tour: Cheers for Gloss, Tears for India
Messi’s GOAT Tour: Cheers for Gloss, Tears for India
19 min
If somebody is a great cricketer, I am all right admiring him irrespective of his nationality; that’s fine. But the question is: why is such adulation and such expenditure reserved only for people outside your own country? Indian soccer is totally starved of funds, but the same fans will not spend this money, not even a fraction of this money. Are we really poor, or are we just poorly directed? We don’t know the right direction to move in because we don’t know the right center to have.
Why China Surged Ahead, India Stood Still
Why China Surged Ahead, India Stood Still
21 min
So much so that, even today, India’s literacy rate is just 77%, and China has almost cent per cent literacy. That’s a huge difference. From where will you get innovation if your kids are not well-educated? And even if they are educated, they are just moving towards the service sector rather than the line of innovation. How will you lead the world? Just having democracy will not take you anywhere if those casting their vote are not educated enough.
When You Have a Heart, You Get a Spine
When You Have a Heart, You Get a Spine
4 min
We teach our kids to write applications: “Humbly I beg to submit that today I have an ache in my tooth.” “Humbly I beg to submit!” If you are stating a fact, if the toothache is real, why the hell are you groveling? If that is the Truth, why are you begging? Drool, drool, drool. That’s become our culture. If your philosophy tells you to submit and surrender to several masters, you will never be a truthful person, because in Truth there is no authority but the Truth.
Why ‘Settling Down’ Is the Worst Thing You Can Do
Why ‘Settling Down’ Is the Worst Thing You Can Do
19 min
You are given an image to pursue, and that image is a distant one, far off in the future. A villa of your own, two nice cars, two cute kids, a light-skinned wife, such things. That's the worst concept you can subscribe to in life: settling down. What does that mean? Not changing anymore, not improving further, not having the guts or the stamina to be disruptive anymore. We are very loveless people. All we care for is security, and that's why there is so little creativity and innovation here.
The Collective Ego: GDP Over Wisdom
The Collective Ego: GDP Over Wisdom
8 min
When a society changes what it respects, the economy changes what it produces, because output is only the shadow of values. If status comes from owning, life becomes a showroom, politics becomes the management of craving, and relationships become transactions. If status comes from understanding and contribution, people step out of the consumptive spell, not through forced austerity but because they stop trying to buy an identity.
Climate Disaster: A Spiritual Crisis
Climate Disaster: A Spiritual Crisis
18 min
‘I’m not feeling well.’ Your feelings are carbon. No other species is responsible for the climate disaster. We are. Why? Because only the human being has a hollow in her heart. Climate change is the unfulfilled, dark interiors of this species, Homo sapiens. We are destroyers because we are unhappy and loveless within. There can be no scientific, no economic, no political, no technological solution to the climate disaster. Not at all. Because this is purely a spiritual crisis.
The American Dream is India's Nightmare: GDP is Gross
The American Dream is India's Nightmare: GDP is Gross
17 min
If you see GDP growing at a fast rate, it is not a matter of celebration; it might actually be a warning. Don’t do that. Slow down. GDP is something that you can increase even with a lot of income inequality, as is happening in the case of countries like India. We need clarity. We need to be extremely clear on the definitions of our national imperatives. If development means the images we have been carrying of the United States, that is unsustainable, just not possible.
Don't Suppress, Understand Your Feelings
Don't Suppress, Understand Your Feelings
7 min
A thousand feelings: envy, fear, hatred, competition will come to you. You cannot fight them all, and there is no need to fight them. Be courageous when that feeling comes, and sit down like friends and talk. Be honest that you are the one who is nurturing that feeling all the time. Be aware that it is coming. Let it not enter like a thief. And when it comes, don’t feel small. You only need to understand, not control.
Creativity Begins With a Question Mark
Creativity Begins With a Question Mark
6 min
Creativity is, first of all, to realize that we are uncreative people. We are puppets with strings in the past or in the hands of others. You know noodles, your mother knows noodles, even your grandmother may know noodles. So noodles are very well known. But all the other things will require a question mark; otherwise, you cannot know. So creativity begins with that question mark. Creativity begins with stepping outside your known zone.
Stop Manifesting, Start Questioning
Stop Manifesting, Start Questioning
8 min
Manifestation is simply an expression of your desire. You desire something, and then you imagine your desire has been fulfilled. What does the common man desire? ‘Give me more money.’ What will the politician desire? ‘Finish off democracy and give me power for life.’ We have very stinking desires. Do we ever desire anything that is really good for everybody? The question remains: Was that thing worth it? You gave it so much time, so much respect, did it deserve that?
There Is No Planet B: ‘Colonising Mars’ Is Fantastic Gibberish
There Is No Planet B: ‘Colonising Mars’ Is Fantastic Gibberish
26 min
Let the Earth be destroyed. We have to save humanity. Wow! The human body is 70% water, and the Earth’s surface is also 70% water. Can’t you see that we are the Earth itself? Going to another planet means thinking of collective suicide. Just remember one thing: we don’t live on this planet, we are this planet. Either two of us live together or we go down together, because we are not two at all. We are one.
Why Do So Many Relationships Turn Violent?
Why Do So Many Relationships Turn Violent?
15 min
"As long as you are giving me pleasure and satisfying my needs, there will be peace. The day you stop, there will be war.” This is the usual social contract in which we exchange pleasures and dependencies. This is why there is a lot of violence. But there can be another way of relating to the other, where you are existentially complete within. There can now be beautiful, loving, compassionate relationships because you are not looking to be a parasite or a commander.
Is Centrism the Alternative to Extremism?
Is Centrism the Alternative to Extremism?
8 min
The ego is terrified of groundlessness, so it grabs a chair. It clings to labels because labels give it continuity. When someone says, ‘I am a Leftist’ or ‘I am a Rightist,’ this is not identity but insecurity. The chair is a crutch. The row is a refuge. The ego loves ideology because ideology is a respectable form of bondage. The real question is not Left versus Right. You were not born to sit on the Left or the Right. You were born to stand free.
The Gita’s Revolt Against Ritualism
The Gita’s Revolt Against Ritualism
8 min
Many cultures quietly accept shows of faith without genuine inner change. Mainstream religion, or lokdharma, often reinforces this pattern by offering social approval in place of critical thinking and introspection. It is unfortunately operating like a marketplace, where people seek emotional or material fulfillment, treating dharma as something to consume or perform rather than a path to transform. The Gita dismantles this model entirely, challenging the foundation of desire-driven faith and replacing it with radical self-inquiry.
Is Early Marriage Compulsory?
Is Early Marriage Compulsory?
6 min
There is no compulsion, it's either a slavery you buy into or just an expensive luxury that the rich afford. All this that we are doing: success, marriage, fidelity, money, prestige, whatever, all these are founded on self-ignorance. Somebody tells you, “Go get married, bear kids.” What do you know? You don't know your own birth, and you are giving birth. No point playing blind. Before you start walking, start opening your eyes.
Love Is Dangerous
Love Is Dangerous
9 min
“I love my job as long as I'm paid for it.” Can you work without being paid? If yes, then probably there is some beginning of love. There are ten things we all like, and all liking or disliking is conditional, and the mark of love is that it survives all conditions. If you come to something that is dearer to you than life itself, then you know what love is. Love is dangerous, because it would mean you have come to something that's more precious to you than life itself.
One Realization That Ends All Attachment
One Realization That Ends All Attachment
6 min
The other must exist in your life, and vice versa, only for the sake of internal elevation, to make you into a better person. Don't you see the impact the other one is having on your life? Seeing is the key. What does seeing mean? Seeing implies understanding. See and ask yourself: What is the impact upon me? And if you see that, you'll just push it aside. It will be spontaneous. You won't even require to think, because now you have seen.
One Greed Six Earths: The Inner Emptiness Behind Global Consumption
One Greed Six Earths: The Inner Emptiness Behind Global Consumption
10 min
Overpopulation is not merely a policy failure; it is a failure of consciousness. A species that cannot see where its hunger comes from will consume its own home. A civilisation that defines success through accumulation will accumulate until nothing remains. The forests shrink, the aquifers fall, the soils erode, the oceans empty, the rivers dry, the species die, the climate destabilises, and the slums expand. These are not warnings of the future; they are descriptions of the present.
Yes, the Planet Is Overpopulated
Yes, the Planet Is Overpopulated
14 min
Yes, the planet is overpopulated, but not merely with human bodies. It is overpopulated with high‑consumption lifestyles and with the ideals that glorify them. The way we are living, every additional human birth often means one more wound to the forests, the rivers, the climate, and the other species that must make space for us. When one more human is added in this prevailing culture of ignorant consumption, the rest of existence has one more burden to carry.
Celebrate Duality, That's All That There Is
Celebrate Duality, That's All That There Is
5 min
Duality is Truth wanting to know itself. If there is no duality, what will the Truth do? Alone, absolutely alone. He too needs a partner. So, it divides itself into two. All our sufferings, all imperfections are important. There is no reason to feel small about it. Without you, how will the Source know what it is to fail, what it is to suffer? Indulge yourself fully, but remember what all this really is. Don’t forget that.
Why Don’t We Accept Brilliance?
Why Don’t We Accept Brilliance?
15 min
What surrounds you is 99.99% trash. And if, by glorious chance, there is 0.01% greatness, brilliance, selfless compassion, you will never accept it because you are used to the usual 99.99%. You will think even this one is of the same type. You need to be very careful about this because it’s a double trap. One, you are surrounded by idiots. Two, when you meet the one exception, you are so conditioned to idiots that you take even the exception as an idiot.
Period Leave: A Gift or a Cage?
Period Leave: A Gift or a Cage?
9 min
The point always to be proven and maintained is that the woman is weak and fragile, because that is exactly what patriarchy always sought to prove: “She can’t work.” Coming from a man it will appear harsh, but being a human being much like a woman, what I can broadly say is that I will not trade away my freedom for the sake of avoiding physical inconvenience. Even if favors are offered to you for free, refuse. There are no free lunches.
Lack of Research Culture in India
Lack of Research Culture in India
13 min
The very nature of research is that there is uncertainty. It’s a dive into the unknown. We fear the unknown so much that we want to stick to known lanes throughout; that’s what explains the lack of a research culture. There are just so many masters all around and over you. Don’t listen to them. All those who stop you from flying high, they are being irresponsible, because they in no way can compensate for the opportunity you lose.
So, You Want To Change The World?
So, You Want To Change The World?
16 min
Every living being, from humans to the smallest species, is trying to change the world to suit its own needs. But this is not intended to do any good to the world, it is just coming from the little ego. And the ego will not say, “I'm not all right;” it will try to change the world. So, if your idea of ‘good’ is only relative to your personal self, is it right to impose it on others? You must be clear about why you aspire to change the world, and whether you have brought about any change in yourself first.
Self, Society, and the State: Vedanta’s Voice in Indian Democracy
Self, Society, and the State: Vedanta’s Voice in Indian Democracy
7 min
Embracing the Constitution isn’t just about fulfilling a civic duty; it’s about acknowledging a spiritual responsibility. It calls on us to recognize that India’s true freedom lies in harmonizing our laws with our inner Truth. As we continue to grow as a democracy, we should remember that the Constitution isn’t something foreign to our heritage but an expression of the deepest aspirations of the Indian spirit.
Living Authentically Means Living Freely
Living Authentically Means Living Freely
8 min
The authentic one can never be harmed because he lives freely and without dependence. If someone can inflate you with their words, they can also deflate you. By accepting your identity from someone else, you have needlessly made yourself a beggar. The authentic person does not want anything from any external being. He can have a relationship, but he’ll always be ready to leave. And that does not mean the relationship cannot have love. Love and desire are different things; desire means: I want to exploit; love is about giving without expectation.
An Advaitic Critique of Marxism
An Advaitic Critique of Marxism
11 min
Marxism is not wrong for seeking justice. It is incomplete in believing justice can come without awakening. When awakening does come, whether in a Kolkata adda, a Dakshineshwar temple, a Russian factory, a Wall Street floor, or a village panchayat, one sees that every great outer revolution begins when one has the courage to challenge one’s inner structures.
The Biggest Lie: ‘Everything Happens for a Reason?’
The Biggest Lie: ‘Everything Happens for a Reason?’
23 min
Why do you expect the universe to be a fair and just place? That’s not philosophy, that’s a lot of fiction. This whole thing is very, very random. But we want to assign causality to it. We want to say, “Things happen for such and such a reason.” Why are we allowing randomness to assume meaning? A life without meaning terrifies us. There is no meaning in external material life; it is absurd. But there can be meaning in the one who you are.
What Is A Doctor’s Responsibility?
What Is A Doctor’s Responsibility?
21 min
As a doctor, can we limit our responsibility to the one particular body or to the set of few bodies that come to us for treatment? Or is the patient actually a representative of an entire society, an entire ecosystem? Can I really be a good doctor of the lungs, if I support a society that pollutes the environment in the name of development? So, if I'm a doctor, then health is my responsibility in the holistic sense, not just one patient.
Why Will Governments Never Solve the Climate Crisis?
Why Will Governments Never Solve the Climate Crisis?
6 min
Ours is a democratic system. You are the government. If you want to accelerate climate devastation, it will be accelerated. Who can stop it? A leader is just a poor person, typically an old man. How will he resist the combined might of the electorate? All real change can happen only at the level of the individual. Once it happens there, it takes no time for governments to toe the line.
Good Spirituality Is Good Economics
Good Spirituality Is Good Economics
12 min
The money you pay for something must be commensurate with its practical utility, but how do you know something is worth its price? For example, does jewellery really have any utility that you pay so much for just a piece of metal? The average Indian household spends much more on the girl’s dowry than on her education. And poor farmers in India are often pushed to suicide because they spend a lot on weddings and funerals by borrowing at exorbitant rates. This is what happens when you are not deeply spiritual: you can be easily conditioned to earn from the wrong source and spend at the wrong place.
Before the Ice Melts, the Ego Must: The Real Crisis Behind COP30
Before the Ice Melts, the Ego Must: The Real Crisis Behind COP30
12 min
Governments cannot enforce what people do not inwardly accept. The same person who demands climate action as a citizen demands consumption as a buyer. The voter and the consumer are the same person, unwilling to live with less. No political system survives long by asking its people to sacrifice comfort. So governments sign accords, issue statements, and return home to protect normalcy.
How to Beat the Competition
How to Beat the Competition
14 min
You don’t beat the competition by continuously wasting your energy on surveillance. “How is this one doing? How is that one doing?” Do what you have to do, and the results, let them show up on their own. And then even if the result is not great, you say, “Fine, who cares?” Why? Because you anyway had a good time; you were doing what you loved to do. You beat the competition not by targeting the competition, but by being with yourself.
Why Should Someone Study Philosophy?
Why Should Someone Study Philosophy?
11 min
This in itself is a philosophical question. This is why you should study philosophy, because you already have this question. Philosophy is your affection for the Truth, your leaning towards the Truth. Don’t you want to know the Truth? How many of you are happy with lies? Nobody. So, it is this love for Truth that we all innately have; that’s called philosophy.
From Dharma to Dogma: The Genesis of Caste
From Dharma to Dogma: The Genesis of Caste
11 min
If caste were only a social structure, reformers would have erased it. If merely legal, the Constitution would suffice. But caste is sustained in religious belief. It persists because it hides behind Dharma's name. As long as this false dharma based on birth endures, caste will endure. What is worshipped will not be questioned, and what is not questioned will not change.
If the Weekdays Are Rotten, Will the Weekend Help?
If the Weekdays Are Rotten, Will the Weekend Help?
26 min
Why have that kind of work that makes it important for you to leave the office and say, "I'm done for the day?" Why can't work be a love affair? Why can't the entire life be a love affair? We all have real needs, but have we identified them? We might be investing ourselves in fulfilling random, shallow, borrowed desires. And to fulfill them, we slog, hustle, and put up with things. There is a thin line between a real need and a borrowed desire, and that line is the output of self-observation.
Learn From Kids Before You Teach Them
Learn From Kids Before You Teach Them
3 min
If you are in charge of a kid, then you have to be very sensitive, very careful, and loving. Just being with the kid in a loving way, not even having planned what to teach him, is sufficient. Instead of teaching kids, I have been learning from them, and they have given my ego great lessons by exposing me. No kid needs any training; we need de-training.
What Do You Mean by Loyalty?
What Do You Mean by Loyalty?
8 min
The fellow is the worst kind of human being possible. But you will not accuse him of disloyalty, infidelity, or cheating, because he still reserved his body for you. This simply tells that the relationship is founded on the body. The woman has been trained to consider herself the body, and so has the man. Why don't we broaden our definition of loyalty? Please ask, “You couldn’t be loyal to any kind of virtue. How will you ever be loyal to me?”
What Is Karma?
What Is Karma?
3 min
Karma is a reflection of who you are. You are the doer. Karma means action. You are the actor. The principle of karma is: do not focus on karma; focus on karta, the doer, the actor. That is karma, that’s all. There is nothing mystical about it.
Delicate to Dauntless: The Myth of Female Fragility
Delicate to Dauntless: The Myth of Female Fragility
9 min
Our women have lifted the cricket world cup. This win challenges a civilizational assumption: that women must remain delicate and desirable. For centuries, India celebrated women as symbols of purity, patience, and sacrifice, but seldom as doers. This reverses that. A woman is not sacred because she endures but because she acts, strives, transforms. The chuimui image fades, replaced by the woman composed, capable, quietly fierce.
When Nothing Else Matters
When Nothing Else Matters
4 min
When you are passionate about the one right thing, then you become impervious to many other things. Come pleasure, come pain, come attractions, come distractions, nothing matters to me, because now I have something extremely worthwhile in my life. One thing, one life, one love, one passion. Isn’t that a great way of living life?
How to Work Without Becoming a Slave to the System?
How to Work Without Becoming a Slave to the System?
4 min
If I’m working in a machine that helps accumulate money for one person or a group of persons, and then that money is used for the ugliest kind of consumption, for example, one that worsens the climate spectre, then there is a problem. The question is: where is the heart placed? If the heart of the system is at the right place, then at the micro level you can do your best in it. Minor flaws will remain even in the best system that you construct on your own.
Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn
Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn
10 min
What does the world look like after COVID? What has changed? The answer is uncomfortable: very little. We have not learned that we are not separate from nature; whatever we do to harm it rebounds on ourselves. COVID was a whisper from the abyss. Climate change is the roar. The question isn’t if another pandemic will come. The question is whether we’ll still be asleep when it arrives, or whether we’ll finally ask: Who am I beyond this endless wanting? That question is humanity’s only real defence.
Technology: A Magnificent Servant, a Dangerous Master
Technology: A Magnificent Servant, a Dangerous Master
8 min
Technology can process information, but it cannot live life on our behalf. It cannot love for us, understand for us, or grow for us. To remember one’s ability for discretion is the essence of wisdom. If we neglect this inner development, our outer power will remain unearned, misused, and ultimately self-destructive. If we grow inwardly, then technology becomes a servant rather than a master, a means of liberation rather than destruction.
No Price Is Too Big for Freedom
No Price Is Too Big for Freedom
25 min
If the woman really understands herself and therefore her choices, why would there be a need to be affected by others? But we bother. That happens because we have borrowed our sense of self from history, tradition, and society. When dependence is glorified, be it physical, financial, emotional, or psychological, it definitely coexists with bondage. If you feel bulldozed or forced, there is only one reason: you’re not walking on your own legs. Go out and earn. No price is too big for freedom.
Work That Challenges Your Weaknesses
Work That Challenges Your Weaknesses
6 min
Your work has to be of a nature that challenges your central problem, that will not allow you to remain the weak person you are. Every CV has strengths, weaknesses and we know very well that our weaknesses are bigger than the ones we typically reveal on the CV. So what will challenge you enough to shatter your weaknesses down? That’s the definition of work.
You Have Lifted the Cup, and Part of the Spell
You Have Lifted the Cup, and Part of the Spell
2 min
You have lifted the World Cup, and with it, part of the weight of centuries. Such victories go beyond the field; they remind us how much becomes possible when you are unshackled from limiting scripts and submissive roles. A true victory is not over an external opponent, but over one’s own limitations: personal, cultural, historical. When women play freely, the nation breathes freely. When women claim their place, the planet finds its peace.
You Fear Death Because You’ve Never Lived
You Fear Death Because You’ve Never Lived
5 min
Death is certain for everybody in the future. What matters is that today, you are alive. Wasting time is bad even for an otherwise healthy young person. But when you know that your clock is ticking, then wasting time makes no sense at all. Let every day be a celebration of some kind or the other. Be free, sit together, eat together, travel together, and make the best use of whatever time is there.
Passion vs Pressure: How to Make Choices?
Passion vs Pressure: How to Make Choices?
20 min
What is life without real passion, real commitment, real love? What do you live for? Just wake up each day and say, "Another day, another day," and a day will come when you will run out of days. They will tell you, "Look at that beggar on that street, that will be you in 20 years." They will paint all these terrifying pictures. Don't listen. The real deal is work, not money. Just do not be afraid.
Truth Isn’t a Crime
Truth Isn’t a Crime
10 min
In the rule books of the courts, there are offenses of a thousand kinds, but when it comes to life, there is just one offense, ‘Did you live by the Truth or did you betray it?’ Remember that chap called Bhagat Singh and his associates. The courts declared they were guilty, and they were still joyful because they were absolutely not guilty in front of life. Live rightly, and then don’t apologize. That’s it.
How to Choose Work?
How to Choose Work?
7 min
For most of us, work is a random accident. You’re born a girl, so you’ll become a housewife. Born a girl, how will you be an astronaut or a swimmer? Is any self-awareness needed? Do not let your choice of work be dictated by social norms or established channels. When work arises as an expression of your deepest clarity, only then can there be love.
Why Do We Go to the Upanishads?
Why Do We Go to the Upanishads?
17 min
Joy is not a problem. Suffering is a problem. I am the sufferer. And if this ‘I’ is the problem, the sufferer, then firstly the ‘I’ itself has to be approached. And when I find that my efforts are getting saturated, I will have to go to a book that talks exclusively of the ‘I.’ The Upanishads are such books, because their subject matter is nothing but the ‘I.’ So, if you come across something that is dealing in stories, beliefs, and deviating from the self, you must know that it is not Vedanta at all.
Bihar Elections 2025: The Vote That Must Awaken the Voter
Bihar Elections 2025: The Vote That Must Awaken the Voter
8 min
Bihar’s tragedy is not that it is poor; it is that it refuses to wake up. A state cannot rise if its voters remain inwardly unaware. The quality of the government is never higher than the quality of the people who elect it. When people vote unconsciously, by habit, caste, or anger, elections become nothing but a ritual. A sleeping mind elects a snoring system. Bihar does not need another ruler; it requires a teacher — one who can awaken the inner voter before the outer vote is cast.
Who Is a False Teacher?
Who Is a False Teacher?
3 min
Just see what their presence does to you. Are they really able to remove fear from your mind, or are they putting you in greater fear? Do not know them by their forms, medallions, or all the respect that society gives them. Know them by one criterion only — "Have they liberated you, or have they put you in greater bondage?"
Enquiry Beats Belief
Enquiry Beats Belief
17 min
Spirituality is not belief. Please, please. In fact, spirituality is constantly sniffing for belief. And if I smell belief there, I’ll come hunting. Spirituality is the unrelenting enquiry into all beliefs in life. “Why am I living on imaginations? I want to question.” Enquiry does yield results, but it requires honesty. If you honestly look at yourself, you’ll discover there is a reason why you are irritated. In the absence of honesty, belief is the crutch.
Is Destiny Trash or Pre-Written?
Is Destiny Trash or Pre-Written?
8 min
You say, “Anyway, nothing is going to happen. What is written is written. So what is the point of acting? Let me just sleep and rot.” All this concept of destiny is a dirty trick to justify your laziness and cowardice. There’s nothing called destiny. However, there is something called randomness, and that randomness you cannot control. But that randomness is not destiny. You have the agency to respond rightly to that randomness. You always have a choice. Always.
Offering Prasad
Offering Prasad
4 min
Prasad is what you get by being in contact with a luminous source. You are close to the Bhagavad Gita, there are insights, you start living those insights, others look at you and see something special, something luminous, and feel inspired — that is prasad. There is a certain realization, and you want to share it with everybody — that is prasad. Your own inner illumination is prasad.
Continuity, Not Perfection
Continuity, Not Perfection
15 min
What does imperfection look like? The face in the mirror — that’s imperfect. Every imperfect person, according to his or her conditioning, dreams of perfection in his or her particular way. Perfection is a concept, an imagination. So, should I chase this imaginary ideal called perfection, or should I just look at my current state? We are not okay as we are. And in this lies the inspiration to get better, to move on.
Seeking External Validation: You Are a Bubble Blown by Society
Seeking External Validation: You Are a Bubble Blown by Society
11 min
Had you not been told what to do, would you have done even one of the things that you currently do? Think of it. If nobody tells you to take a particular kind of education or a particular career, would you still go in that stream? Very unlikely. Most of that which we want is something we have been ‘made to want.’ You are not even a puppet. You are a bubble — a bubble blown by society. Once you start looking directly at yourself, the need for external validation then reduces.
True Growth Requires a Second Birth
True Growth Requires a Second Birth
10 min
Growth is a reduction, growth is a dissolution. True growth is rather a contraction, bidding goodbye, letting go, dropping, unburdening, unloading, unbecoming. Those are the real words. This birth that we are carrying as our identity is just suffering for the one who is carrying it. Why should you carry something that simply burdens you? That’s what is intended to be read.
Rumi's Innocent Surrender
Rumi's Innocent Surrender
8 min
To say, “I am such a devotee that I will reach freedom through my efforts. And I will not stop till I am liberated,” might sound like a statement of commitment, devotion, and deep mystical thirst — but it is actually just arrogance. Rumi has done the fullest that the human mind can do, and has left no stone unturned. And after doing what he could do, he simply raised his hands and surrendered. This is the utmost that this mortal form can do.
True Freedom of Expression Is Inner Liberation
True Freedom of Expression Is Inner Liberation
7 min
We mistake freedom for something the world grants us: the right to speak, move, or choose. But whatever the world gives, it can also take away. This is why the scriptures speak of an inner freedom: the one that's untouched by time, politics, or power. True freedom of expression lies not in the right to speak, but in the clarity from which the speech arises. Before we defend our right to free expression, we must ask ourselves: Who is the one within me who's expressing? Are my words truly my own, or just echoes of the noise that surrounds me?
Earned the Right to Celebrate Diwali?
Earned the Right to Celebrate Diwali?
10 min
You need to earn the right to even utter ‘Shri Ram’. If, for 364 days, you have really lived up to Shri Ram, only then must you celebrate the festival of Ramness. For 364 days, your life had nothing to do with Shri Ram, and on the 365th day, you join the noisy bandwagon. Shri Ram, who stands for that which can neither be bought nor sold, his festival has been turned into an orgy of sales and discounts. Live your life just as Shri Ram lived his life, and then you will have the right to celebrate Diwali.
You’ve Already Won: Now Fight the War
You’ve Already Won: Now Fight the War
19 min
The Gita is not made precious by the fact that Arjun won. No, Arjun may win, or Arjun may lose. The real thing lies in having the Truth represented by Shri Krishna at the heart. When you are fighting the right war, then you have won even before the war has begun. That does not mean that you will no longer fight. You will still fight, and you will fight for the sake of external victory. But inwardly, you are victorious even before shooting the first arrow.
Climate Action: Why Governments Keep Resisting
Climate Action: Why Governments Keep Resisting
7 min
If you think you can do it at the policy level, that sounds very tempting but means nothing, because you are trying to defy the very law of existence. You are saying the minister will do it. Why will the minister do it? The ones in power have the least interest in any climate action because they are the ones with the minimum stakes there. You'll have to awaken the individual so that the one in power listens to you. Awaken the individuals. What else? There is no option.
Maya: The Most Fundamental Hypnosis
Maya: The Most Fundamental Hypnosis
10 min
Some battles need to be fought just because they deserve to be fought, not for the sake of victory but for the sake of the fight itself. And victory is indeed possible. We are not fundamentally evil. We are all hypnotized since birth. That’s what is called Maya. Just as somebody can hypnotize us, somebody can also break the hypnosis. It is possible! Never, never lose Faith.
Ladakh: A Climate Warning from the Roof of the World
Ladakh: A Climate Warning from the Roof of the World
9 min
Taking care of Ladakh is not just a favour to the mountains; it is a way to protect oneself. Ladakh is not rebelling; it is remembering. The voices coming from its valleys are not acts of rebellion; they are a call to remind us of what we have forgotten: that even survival is connected to inner clarity. To look at Ladakh today is to look at ourselves. The cracks in its ice are reflections of our own restlessness, our refusal to pause in the midst of a catastrophe.
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