06 Jun '26

What Cambridge kept asking: The crisis has a centre

"On the 30th of May, I spoke at the Cambridge Union as part of the Cambridge India Business Dialogue, in conversation with Professor Jaideep Prabhu of the Judge Business School. I had been told the session would run for about an hour; the room had other intentions."

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31 May '26

The Slaughter You Choose Not To See

"Every year, as Eid al-Adha approaches, the debate reappears: should the practice be restricted, is public sacrifice acceptable, are there hygiene concerns? The protests and defences line up on cue, and when the festival passes, the argument goes quiet for another twelve months. The animal that was slaughtered is forgotten; the position that was held is remembered."

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30 May '26

Climate crisis: When comfort masquerades as immunity

Almost every historical crisis has produced its version of the same thought: what is happening is happening to someone else. The climate crisis has produced a version of this thought particularly well-suited to the Indian urban professional class: climate change is real, but its primary victims are the farmer without irrigation, the construction worker or the landless labourer. The crisis the middle class has assigned to someone else is visible in the city's own property markets, its own seasonal calendar, its own streets after an hour of rain, and the exemption the middle class believes it holds has already been declined, though its holders have not yet checked the correspondence.

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24 May '26

The Terms She Never Chose to Live by

"The dowry demand is typically presented in public discourse as an anachronism, a stubborn remnant of a less enlightened India that education, urbanisation, and explicit legal prohibition have somehow failed to dislodge, a framing that mistakes the institution’s most explicit expression for a departure from it. But is dowry an aberration within the institution of marriage, or the institution’s own operating logic, followed to its economic conclusion?"

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23 May '26

An Energy Crisis in Disguise

"The connection between fuel consumption and the absence of a genuine inner life is not metaphorical. It is a mechanical chain. The human being who believes that satisfaction must be sought outward, because he has found no access to genuine sufficiency within, acts upon his emotions and desires without examining what drives them. Every desire acted upon requires energy. Energy, in a civilisation built on fossil fuels, means burning them."

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17 May '26

NEET crisis: The wound beneath the wound

"The investigation into 2026 NEET-UG cancellation will produce arrests, possibly convictions, and a reformed NTA with a strengthened testing protocol; the twenty-two lakh students who sat on May 3 deserve nothing less. But the reformed examination will still fill its halls with candidates who do not know why they are there, whose years were arranged around a credential that was always standing in as a substitute for the self-knowledge that no curriculum, reformed or otherwise, has ever offered them."

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16 May '26

Sanatan: Tradition Loudly Possessed, Quietly Unread

“When scriptures are reduced to symbols of identity instead of instruments of inquiry, tradition loses its living essence. Reverence without study creates pride, not understanding. And a civilisation that stops reading itself slowly becomes vulnerable to noise, imitation, and hollow ritual."

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10 May '26

Mother's Day Special: ‘The Marriage we Settled for’

“The mother being honoured today is the first person her children watched accept the settlement. The daughter who watched her mother’s labour go unnamed, unthanked, and unquestioned did not even consider that cooking may be a form of oppression. She learned something subtler and more durable: that this is what care looks like, that devotion does exactly this, and that a settlement accepted without complaint and carried with grace passes, in most households, for love itself.”

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09 May '26

Super Monday: Boredom as ballot, spectacle as sovereignty

"Beneath all the noise of Super Monday, there's only one question worth asking: if the voter has changed his government for the seventh or the fifteenth time, and if the quality of what is governed has remained constant, if the problems said to have motivated each successive verdict continue in their essential form, at what point does the ceremony of changing governments begin to look less like the exercise of popular sovereignty and more like the elaborate activity of a self that has decided never to examine what has not changed?"

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02 May '26

The Bill The Planet Has Been Paying For You

"The mountains are on fire and India's cities are furnaces. The bill for two centuries of mispriced consumption is arriving on a schedule that runs ahead of every published forecast. The question that remains is a simple one: whether the person who drove up to the hills, ate the Maggi, and tossed the packet into the ravine is willing to reckon with the distance between what he paid and what it cost."

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26 Apr '26

The Enemy We Cannot Afford To Lose

"The end of violence ought to be the simplest good news in the world. That it so rarely functions as such is a phenomenon worth pausing over. Something about the structure of collective life makes enemies necessary. Understanding what that something is, requires looking not at the conflict but at the one watching it."

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25 Apr '26

Counted, Not Weighed: What Delimitation Asks

"A delimitation that diminishes the political standing of societies with its highest-performing institutions is not simply an injustice to them; it is a statement about what India believes political standing should be based on. A country that wants to earn its place in the world as a knowledge economy cannot build that future on a political architecture that the builders of its knowledge economy will experience as a systematic penalty for having built it."

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19 Apr '26

Reserved seats, unchanged cages

"Women’s reservation means little unless society first transforms the lives women actually inhabit."

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18 Apr '26

The Wound That Equality Cannot Heal

"The Women's Reservation Act will soon reach implementation. More women will enter legislatures, which is preferable to the alternative. But the question being avoided in all this discussion is more uncomfortable: has anything changed in the relationship between a woman and her own sense of self? The hardest evidence against the adequacy of external liberation is not political. It lives in her inner life. That doesn't yield to legislation or to awareness of patriarchy as a social structure."

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14 Apr '26

The age of emotional fragility

We live in what is probably the most comfortable era our species has known. In practical terms, the body is safer than it has ever been.

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12 Apr '26

The Child as the Ego’s Credential

"A parent who has not questioned her own conditioning, who has not sat with her own fear and traced it to its source, who has not asked what she is outside her own social performance: such a parent has no light to offer. The state of the child is a faithful record of the state of the parent, and the relationship with the child cannot change until the parent begins to change what she is."

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11 Apr '26

What the IPL Spectacle Really Feeds

There is a reason the entertainment apparatus grows more elaborate, more expensive, and more omnipresent when the ground-level facts of existence are becoming harder to look at. Political theatre, religious spectacle, franchise cricket: the products differ but the mechanism is identical in every case, each offering the ego a ready-made emotional world to inhabit so that it need not examine the actual world it lives in.

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05 Apr '26

The Right to Depart: On Death as a Decision, Not a Default

"The decision to depart, when genuine, must be the person’s own, arrived at in full awareness, not extracted by family exhaustion, economic pressure, or a system that has run out of ideas. It cannot come from pain alone, because suffering without self-knowledge produces desperation rather than clarity, and desperation and dignity are not on the same register."

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04 Apr '26

Misinformation has a patron: The ego that calls itself post-truth

"If the ego is always filtering information through what it has already decided to protect, then what does misinformation actually mean? Both misinformation and disinformation assume a stable, agreed-upon baseline of truth against which the falseness of a given claim can be measured. This is the assumption that has not been examined."

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29 Mar '26

The Climate Without, The Hunger Within

"The sense of incompletion that propels a young professional to book a flight to a destination he has already mentally photographed, to build a house with rooms that will rarely be used; this is not a rational economic decision. It is the ego’s oldest and most relentless reflex: I am insufficient as I am; adding, acquiring, displaying will resolve the insufficiency."

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28 Mar '26

Charged, but Unchanged: The EV Delusion

"Every civilisation in crisis reaches first for the solution that requires it to change the least. This is not cowardice; it is the structural behaviour of the human ego, which will accept any modification to its tools before it will accept an examination of its wants."

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22 Mar '26

The Real War Nobody Wants To Fight

"The real war is the one the ego wages against honest seeing, the war between what it is and what it insists on being taken for. It is the hunger the ego carries meeting a reality that will not satisfy it; the persistent feeling that something is missing whose name cannot be found because finding it would require looking at the one who feels it."

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21 Mar '26

Ballots in a Burning World: What Elections Cannot Vote Away

"Democracy does not give you what you want—it gives you what you are. A hard look at how the voter’s inner state shapes the nation more than any leader ever can."

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15 Mar '26

The Government Job Obsession: A Paranoia, A Mirage

"What makes this machinery particularly effective is that it finds its subjects already converted. By the time a young aspirant is old enough to question the direction he has been pointed in, he has already invested years, and the sunk cost holds him in place."

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14 Mar '26

The Climate Cost of the War Machine

“War is not only a humanitarian disaster; it is also an environmental one. Modern warfare devours fuel, burns cities, poisons soil and air, and leaves behind scars that last far longer than the battles themselves. Even as nations pledge to fight climate change, the machinery of war continues to run on a scale that quietly undermines those very promises.”

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08 Mar '26

The Woman Neither Tradition Nor Rebellion Prepared For

"On 8th March every year, International Women’s Day is observed, speeches are made, and achievements are listed. But the woman sitting quietly behind all of it, the one who has given and accommodated her way through life, is not waiting for a celebration. She is waiting, perhaps without knowing it, for permission to ask who she actually is beneath everything she was told to be."

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07 Mar '26

Why do nations go to war ?

"The inner condition that produces belligerent foreign policy is the same one that produces the epidemic of depression, anxiety, addiction, and inner purposelessness that's become the defining psychological signature of the most militarily powerful societies on earth. You cannot burn your neighbour’s house and rest in peace, not because of some mystical law, but because the act of burning changes the one who burns."

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01 Mar '26

Education: Expanding outer knowledge, awakening inner clarity

"Most education concerns itself with objects. Chemistry studies substances, physics studies matter and energy, economics studies exchange, etc. Even psychology studies behaviour as something observable from the outside. The curriculum grows more detailed each year. Our grasp of the world becomes more precise. But you, the self, are not an object in that world. You are the one to whom the world appears. And that fact is seldom examined."

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28 Feb '26

New Regimes, Ancient Hunger: Women as First Casualty

"There is a question beneath the question whenever a society turns its full legislative attention to what a woman wears, where she walks, whether her voice may be heard in a public space, and how much pain her body may absorb before the law takes notice."

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24 Feb '26

The fragile promise of happiness

"Look closely at what usually passes for happiness: A promotion, a holiday, approval, entertainment."

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24 Feb '26

The Enemy Falls Outside. The Enemy Rises Inside.

"Every rebellion imagines itself as the subject of history: we, the people, are acting; we are choosing; we are remaking the world. But look more carefully, and a disturbing possibility emerges. The crowd that fills the streets is not the author of the revolution"

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22 Feb '26

The Borrowed Dog and the Unborrowed Question

"Summits will improve their screening, and budgets may rise, but these corrections address the temperature of the room while leaving the fire untouched. What must change is the inner posture toward inquiry itself, beginning where the distortion was first installed."

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15 Feb '26

Why Every Caste Debate Misses the Real Question

When a social arrangement is given the name of religion, it becomes nearly impossible to dismantle. You can legislate against it, protest against it, write constitutions that explicitly forbid it, and it will survive, because people will obey the law in the open and worship the belief in private.

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14 Feb '26

A Defective Species: Outrage Won’t Help, Acknowledgement Would

"Every few years, a similar pattern keeps repeating. A set of names tumbles into public view, and the world performs its ritual of shock. And then, quietly, the cycle completes itself: the outrage fades, the names are absorbed into the archives, and the pattern continues."

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08 Feb '26

Geopolitics: The Ego’s Grand Theatre

"Nations often behave remarkably like insecure individuals. They nurse historical wounds for centuries. They demand recognition. They measure themselves against rivals and mistake expansion for strength."

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07 Feb '26

Why Scandals Shock Us, And Shouldn’t

"If one relies on events, shock is guaranteed, again and again, because most misdeeds never come fully to light. Scandals are not reliable teachers. If one understands the principle, shock loses its grip, because what unfolds is recognised rather than discovered."

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01 Feb '26

From Telescope to Horoscope: When Belief Replaced Inquiry

"One civilisation may invest in instruments that measure the world; another may invest in instruments that offer comfort and reassurance. The consequences of that choice can take centuries to unfold, but they always unfold."

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31 Jan '26

Rotating Revolutions: Iran on Maya’s Wheel

“Revolutions always promise change, and they usually deliver something that merely looks like change. Regimes collapse, flags are replaced, slogans change, but something remains untouched. The question we refuse to ask is simple: when the wheel turns again, what will have changed?”

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25 Jan '26

From Caveman to Greenland: The hunger that never left

“But what was the human being doing during this so-called peace? Per capita consumption, carbon emissions, and animal kills kept rising continuously, even through the decades we remember as stable. The superficial learning from World War II remained: do not collide with each other, pile more on your own plate, but buy it from the market rather than snatching it from the neighbour. The hunger never diminished. Only the hunting strategy changed.”

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24 Jan '26

Without Self-Enquiry, Rationalism Is Just Another Superstition

"Without self-enquiry, rationalism turns outward-only. It scrutinizes religion, superstition, tradition, politics, and the beliefs of others, but it never pauses to examine the psychological centre doing the scrutinizing. The ego remains untouched, and rationality becomes its armour."

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18 Jan '26

AI Is Not the Problem: We Were Already a Machine

"AI has arrived not as a villain but as a mirror, reflecting back exactly how mechanical our lives have become. The tragedy is not that machines are growing intelligent; it is that we have been living unintelligently, and now the fact is exposed."

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17 Jan '26

Does God Exist? The Ego’s Favourite Shield

"The believer says ‘Exists’ and clutches scripture, the atheist says ‘No’ and clutches logic. In either case, the ego experiences some relief after speaking. In questioning the existence of God, the ego successfully hides its own non-existence."

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11 Jan '26

The law that cannot liberate: The limits of punishment

"Prisons multiply, crime persists—an inquiry into justice, consciousness, and responsibility."

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10 Jan '26

Venezuela and Bangladesh: Two Theatres, Same Actor

"Violence never arrives announcing itself as violence. It arrives wrapped in reasons and slogans, in duty, in faith, in law, in nation, and demands that you honour it as necessary. It extracts your moral consent first, and only then does it spill blood."

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09 Jan '26

Loneliness is not the Enemy

People run from it into noise and distraction and shallow bonds. But running only makes it worse. Suppressed pain does not heal; it festers.

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04 Jan '26

Unconscious Democracy: Why Order Eludes India While China Surges

"Two nations entered the 1990s as poor economies. In fact, India was ahead of China in per capita GDP until the mid-1980s. By 1990, they were roughly equal. Today, the gap is stark. China’s economy stands at around $18–19 trillion; India remains at $4 trillion. The Chinese citizen is five times wealthier."

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03 Jan '26

New Year, or the Old Deceiving in a New Costume?

"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, because we have tried all of it before in different forms."

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28 Dec '25

The Aravalli Situation: When the Hills Become Negotiable

"The hills perform services that never appear on any balance sheet. They blunt desert winds, hold back fine dust, allow rainwater to seep underground instead of rushing away as floods, and release heat at night, offering the region what little relief it gets from brutal summers. None of this enters the calculations of those trained to see only stone to sell and land to develop."

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27 Dec '25

When Culture Masquerades as Wisdom

"As generally practised, culture is not wisdom; it is repetition. It is behaviour carried forward because it was once useful, once meaningful, once powerful, or simply because it has not yet been questioned. It belongs to the past by definition. It has momentum because it becomes society’s collective habit."

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21 Dec '25

Meditation Beyond Methods: The Meditator Is the Obstruction

"Meditation techniques, however sincerely adopted, rarely produce transformation. A technique reassures the ego that it can remain intact while adding a spiritual activity to its repertoire. Such methods become refined forms of dishonesty because they divert attention from the real task of examining the seeker, and instead keep the seeker busy with well-intentioned rituals."

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20 Dec '25

Shruti Philosophy: The Hinduism That Stands Forgotten

"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."

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14 Dec '25

Inner Poverty: Consumption as Hollow Consolation

"The tragedy is not only that the world manipulates, the deeper tragedy is that one cooperates. One scrolls, watches, compares, and willingly walks into the marketplace looking for something the marketplace cannot stock. The inner void remains untouched, and quietly, it expands."

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13 Dec '25

The Collective Ego: GDP Over Wisdom

“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.”

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07 Dec '25

The Infantilisation of Adults: Why Maturity Is Vanishing Worldwide

"Fear wants predictability and protection. It wants a world that rearranges itself for its convenience. This turns the adult into a demanding being, and demand is always the language of the child. When the inner child is unexamined, it becomes the ruler of the house while the so-called adult acts as a polite spokesperson."

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06 Dec '25

Left & Right: Ideological Opposites, Psychological Twins

"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."

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30 Nov '25

One Greed Six Earths: The Inner Emptiness Behind Global Consumption

"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."

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29 Nov '25

Yes, the planet is overpopulated!

"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."

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23 Nov '25

Beyond passion and pressure: Career as clarity

"Clarity is not confidence, which can exist without wisdom. It is not certainty, which often masks fear. Clarity is the mind’s ability to see things as they are, without the lens of desire or fear. It allows the mind to perceive without bending reality toward what it wishes for or what it dreads. When clarity is present, choices reveal themselves not as battles between competing forces but as natural movements arising from understanding."

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22 Nov '25

An Advaitic Critique of Marxism

"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."

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16 Nov '25

Weekdays of Bondage, Weekends of Escape

"In a healthy life, work does not stand outside life as a burden. It is a major part of life itself. A suitable job is not one that forces a person to seek regular rehabilitation from it, but one that does not require such rehabilitation at all."

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15 Nov '25

Before the Ice Melts, the Ego Must: The Real Crisis Behind COP30

"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."

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09 Nov '25

Delicate to Dauntless: The Myth of Female Fragility

"This win reveals what becomes possible when women stop being ornaments and start being participants. 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."

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08 Nov '25

From Dharma to Dogma: The Genesis of Caste

"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."

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02 Nov '25

Technology: A Magnificent Servant, a Dangerous Master

"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."

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01 Nov '25

Forgotten Pandemic: The Lessons We Refused to Learn

"What does the world look like after COVID? What has changed? The answer is uncomfortable: very little. What species returns so quickly to delusion after staring death in the face? We have not learned that we are not separate from nature; whatever we do to harm it rebounds on ourselves."

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25 Oct '25

Bihar Elections 2025: The Vote That Must Awaken the Voter

"Bihar’s tragedy is not that it is poor; it is that it refuses to wake up. A state cannot rise if its voter 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 sleeping system."

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20 Oct '25

Libertarianism, Liberalism, and Conservatism: Ego as Ideology

"In their own ways, all three ideologies protect the ego’s independence, form, or memory. And because they begin from ignorance of the true Self, none can lead to real welfare. All rest on the same foundation: the belief that the ego deserves preservation. Where the ego is sacred, suffering is inevitable."

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19 Oct '25

Diwali: The Light that Must be Lit Within

"To honour Shri Ram is to cultivate the same grace, doing what is right without bitterness and staying steady in the storm. The lamp outside is just a symbol; the real light has to come from within. When the mind is still, and when truth is more important than comfort, Diwali is no longer a date; it becomes the measure of one’s living."

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12 Oct '25

Ladakh: A Climate Warning from the Roof of the World

"Those who think that Ladakh's turmoil is only happening in one area don't grasp what it really means. It’s not only about politics; it's more about physics. Dismissing Ladakh would be like dismissing the tremor because it started at one edge of the map. The trembling doesn't stop where it starts."

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11 Oct '25

Ladakh: A mirror cracking under climate change

"It’s easy to think of Ladakh as India’s most remote area, useful for tourism brochures and border maps. In reality, it is a mirror that shows our common fate. You can see the hunger of the farmer in Bihar, the thirst of the worker in Delhi, and the worry of families on the beaches in those glaciers that are melting."

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05 Oct '25

When ritual masquerades as religion’s true inner essence

"Buildings, rituals, and identities all come and go. They cannot be the heart of religion. What is timeless is our love for truth, for reliability, for eternity itself. That love explains why we shrink at dishonesty, why we resist betrayal, and why we fear death. Deep within, something in us yearns for the changeless."

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04 Oct '25

Seeking validation abroad: Borrowed respect, fragile nationalism

"True respect does not arrive from visas or tariffs, nor from applause abroad. It is born only when we stop looking outward for validation, and begin to live from inner strength. That alone is dignity. Everything else is illusion"

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30 Sep '25

The Forgotten Navratri: Devi as Nature, Demon as Destruction

"In a world where exploitation and greed mirror the demons of old, Navratri is a reminder that true worship, true sacrifice, and true restoration begin with reverence for nature — and the courage to confront the poison within ourselves"

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28 Sep '25

Navratri and Saptashati show liberation through embracing life

"Navratri’s point is simple: what is beyond form is reached only by going through form. The task, then, is to meet life as it comes, without shortcuts or avoidance. In these nine nights, the real ‘vrat’ should be simple and exact: approach the Durga Saptashati with your whole heart, as a ‘sankalp’ not to remain as you currently are."

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22 Sep '25

The fetish of growth and the mirage of development

"What we parade as growth is, in truth, liquidation. Like a company selling its last assets to dress up quarterly profits, we are liquidating the only deep asset we possess: the planet. Forests, aquifers, soil, and biodiversity: all depleted, none accounted for."

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21 Sep '25

The False Promise of Endless Economic Growth

"Growth as a measure may have once been useful. Growth as an obsession is ruin. The future will belong not to those who consume the most, but to those who live with clarity, and who recognise that life’s worth is not measured in things."

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14 Sep '25

Cost of looking away: How denial fuels the climate crisis

"Until honesty is valued as much as external success, we will raise generations who are informed but not awakened. Climate denial, then, is not just a policy issue. It is a crisis of attention, of sincerity, of willingness to respond. And the crisis will not wait for us to agree. It does not negotiate. It proceeds, hour by hour, indifferent to our narratives. The only question that remains is: when the truth knocks, will we answer, or pretend not to hear?"

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13 Sep '25

Before outer revolutions, we first need an inner one.

"The Nepali youth’s courage is unquestionable. The demand now is that their sacrifice should not end in repetition. The real honour to their lives lies not in hashtags or fleeting slogans, but in a revolution that strikes at the root of slavery."

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11 Sep '25

Why confidence is just fear in disguise

"Fearlessness is not noisy. It is not a performance. It is a silent freedom. It arises when you no longer wait for the world to tell you who you are, but begin to live from your own centre of self-knowledge."

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07 Sep '25

Teachers’ Day reminds us what it really means to teach

"Teachers’ Day should spark gratitude but also reflection on education’s deeper purpose."

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06 Sep '25

North India's Floods: Not Seasonal Wrath, but Climate Collapse

"It is tempting to see these floods as seasonal wrath. But they are not accidents of weather; they are a mirror to our misplaced idea of progress. Describing them as 'natural calamities' dangerously denies their man-made roots."

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31 Aug '25

Greenwashing the Climate: Our Favourite Self-Deception

"India’s future, and humanity’s, will not be decided by how many targets we meet on paper or how many green labels we parade. It will be decided by whether we can look at ourselves without disguise. The measure of sincerity is not in reaching milestones early, but in reducing the harm we continue to cause."

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30 Aug '25

Homes as Graves: Why Outrage Never Ends Violence

"Domestic violence, dowry, and oppressive marriages are symptoms of a deeper poverty — absence of inner clarity. They thrive because society at large runs on fear, desire, and unexamined habits. Outrage after each tragedy has become a ritual, but that cannot cure the blindness of the mind."

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24 Aug '25

Desire and Duty: A False Divide

"Integrity does not mean balancing desire and duty; it means seeing they were never separate. True integrity means no division between oneself and the world. One who lives from clarity does not need to 'add on' responsibility; their very living becomes responsible."

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17 Aug '25

Real Independence Demands Gita’s Clarity

True independence combines political freedom with spiritual liberation, as the Gita teaches inner clarity and self-governance.

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11 Aug '25

Why do We Keep Hurting Ourselves?

Self-harm isn’t just about physically hurting ourselves. It is also when we live unconsciously, chasing goals given to us by society and family.

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10 Aug '25

When Merit is Dethroned, a Nation Withers

"A nation does not fall only to war. It crumbles when its own people begin to lose trust in it. When the youth no longer believe that merit leads to opportunity, they begin to lose faith in the very idea of a nation. The social contract is not printed on paper; it lives in the heart. When that heart withdraws, the contract collapses."

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06 Aug '25

Greenwashing: Pretending to Care While Burning the Planet

"Somewhere along the way, being ‘green’ became a way to signal that you’re thoughtful and responsible. So it’s no surprise that people, and even companies, feel a quiet pressure to look like they care about the planet, whether they truly do or not."

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03 Aug '25

Holy Lies: Man's Religion, Woman's Bondage

"A remark by a public figure or religious authority may spark discussion, but beneath the noise lies something far older than any single controversy. At the core of this idea of ‘the woman as the body’ is an old belief that treats women as physical stuff to be owned, utilized, and consumed."

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27 Jul '25

The Gita’s Revolt Against Ritualism

"Most people do not arrive a t religion through inquiry but inherit it— through tradition passed down by parents, neighbors, and priests. They often put sacred texts on a high shelf, calling them holy, but hardly examine them with genuine curiosity. "

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25 Jul '25

India Pays as the West Neglects: The Price of Global Warming

"Even with the facts of such disproportionate emissions being clear, the powerful nations often turn a blind eye to this disparity. This silence is not ignorance; it is calculation. We often assume that people at the top don’t act because they don’t understand. But that’s rarely the case. They understand, perhaps even better than most, but their interests are tied to the very structures that fuel the crisis."

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21 Jul '25

Rethinking What It Means to Be Truly Clean

"It is time we understand and redefine cleanliness. Is a glittering street in a city that burns fuel cleaner than a dusty road in a carbon-neutral village? Can a society be clean if it runs on fossil fuels and emits heavily? These questions challenge us to look beyond the surface, and should be asked more frequently."

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20 Jul '25

When Protection Becomes Possession: True Rebellion Begins Where Roles End

"True rebellion begins when one stops performing a role written by others and starts living from the center of understanding. Your body is a resource. It is meant to serve consciousness, not define your identity. Freedom lies in transcending inherited conditioning, whether biological, emotional, or cultural."

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15 Jul '25

Climate Crisis: A Mirror to Our Inner State

"Climate change is not just about data and systems. It reflects something deeper: the confusion in the human mind. We are not just harming the planet by accident. We are driven by wants we do not understand, chasing comfort, status, or identity without pausing to ask: What do we really need?"

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13 Jul '25

Does Mankind Deserve Religion?

"True religion does not start with belief. It starts with a question: Why am I not at peace? It begins when a person, tired of running, pauses and looks within. That’s how religion came into being, not as a tradition or community, but as an honest response to the suffering within."

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11 Jul '25

The Climate Crisis Within: Rethinking Global Warming

"The climate crisis isn’t just an environmental emergency — it’s a reflection of our restless, consumption-driven lives. Operation 2030 urges a radical shift: from chasing more to choosing wisely, from outer accumulation to inner clarity, before irreversible damage becomes our new normal."

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06 Jul '25

Does the Gita Justify Caste? Unravelling the Misinterpretation

"The Gita challenges caste by promoting inner qualities over birth, urging liberation from all social identities We live in a time when the line between spiritual wisdom and social distortion blurs daily. In a land that proclaims unity in diversity, caste remains the quiet contradiction."

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29 Jun '25

From Belief to Bloodshed: When Identity Masquerades as Religion

"When the skies grow dark with smoke and the earth quakes beneath exploding shells, the world once again asks: Why does this never end? Why is war still so close, so constant, despite all our advancements? These questions are not only for politicians or diplomats. "

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22 Jun '25

Before it’s too late: Living in an age of trivialized tragedy

"Life unfolds beyond our control. We don’t choose our gender, birthplace, or time of arrival. The belief that we control everything is comforting, but false. A tragic accident, where many lives were lost, reminds us of this."

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15 Jun '25

Violent Relationships: A New Trend, or an Enduring Structure?

"Every now and then, a disturbing news story grabs the nation’s attention – one that seems too extraordinarily gruesome to be real, yet involves seemingly ordinary people. We would like to call such incidents as aberrations. "

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08 Jun '25

Sant Kabir: flame that scorched falsehood

"Every era produces a few who seem not to belong to it. For their contemporaries, their being and expression seems overly bold, too inconvenient, too unsettling. Still, their words transcend centuries, like a wildfire that refuses to be put out."

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01 Jun '25

World Environment Day: The climate crisis and the need for inner awakening

"On June 5th each year, the world commemorates World Environment Day. The occasion invites reflection and introspection. We must ask: has it become just another ritual, well-intentioned yet lacking practical impact?"

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25 May '25

Operation 2030: Confronting the climate crisis within

"For the first time in recorded history, humanity faces an existential crisis entirely of its own making — the sixth mass extinction. Unlike earlier extinctions triggered by natural forces, this one is driven by human activity."

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18 May '25

War and woman: A mirror to mankind’s inner jungle

"Recently, amid the hysteria usually associated with wars, the daughter of an Indian diplomat became the object of collective vulgarity — not in a war zone, but in public discourse."

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11 May '25

Defeating the monster without becoming a monster.

"After the terror attack in Pahalgam and the retaliatory action by India, the region is now standing at the precipice of war. Public opinion is getting more jingoistic, and the brute spectre of war stares us in the face."

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04 May '25

Responding to terror with wisdom: The Bhagavad Gita’s timeless message.

"In a tragic event at Pahalgam, more than twenty innocent tourists were brutally murdered in a terror attack. Reports state that the terrorists specifically chose their victims along religious lines before killing them."

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03 May '25

TCS Outrage: The Astonishment Is The Confession

"These things are not new. The predation, the cover, the reduction of religion to a numbers game: all three have been operating, visibly and continuously, across this society for as long as anyone currently registering horror at the case has been alive. And yet the country received these events as though they had arrived from somewhere else entirely. That astonishment is not innocence. It is the ego’s preferred method of self-protection: to locate the problem at a sufficient distance that no self-examination becomes necessary. To be shocked is to be excused."

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27 Apr '25

Freedom within: Reclaiming expression through inner clarity.

"When powerful narratives in all walks of life are seeking to monopolize public conversation and crowd out, or forcefully silence dissenting voices, freedom of expression becomes even more valuable."

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20 Apr '25

The climate crisis begins within: Lessons from Kancha Gachibowli.

"There was a time, not so long ago, when I would confront and agitate people by asking them how they would justify their inaction on the climate crisis to future generations. I no longer ask that question."

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13 Apr '25

Cleanliness in 21st century Can Have Only Measure: Carbon.

"Cleanliness has traditionally been tied to order and discipline, usually showing up in the most obvious ways: a tidy home, a spotless office, or a neatly kept public space. We’ve come to associate these things with civility and a sense of social responsibility."

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06 Apr '25

Self, Society, and the State: Vedanta’s Voice in Indian Democracy.

"The Constitution, in this regard, is a deeply spiritual document. At its heart lies a return to the Self—the quest for self-realization. It seeks not superficial compliance but deep, personal commitment. Such spiritual foundations reinforce, rather than undermine, the secular character of our democracy."

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30 Mar '25

Climate Change and Feedback Loops: Have We Reached the Point of No Return?

"Where do we currently stand on climate change? We are seeing catastrophic long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, driven by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrialization."

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23 Mar '25

Linguistic Harmony and Identity: Rethinking India's Language Dynamics.

"A language is not merely a tool of communication; it carries within a worldview, a way of life, and an entire cultural and spiritual lineage. Its sounds are the history of a people and the thread that ties them to their roots. In India we speak hundreds of languages, and each one tells a unique story with a deep sense of belonging."

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16 Mar '25

The journey to purpose: Navigating career and calling.

"Young adults, ready to begin a career after college, often face a dilemma regarding the right work and its financial implications. Society tells them to fulfill their social responsibilities."

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09 Mar '25

Redefining Representation: The case for a fairer delimitation in India.

"Delimitation is the process of redrawing the boundaries of territorial constituencies in a state for the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies to ensure fair representation. Since populations grow and shift over time, this process helps maintain balanced representation so that each MP or MLA represents roughly the same number of people."

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02 Mar '25

Women’s Day: A Call for True Liberation.

"Women’s Day is approaching, and soon discussions will emerge across various platforms. New slogans will be coined, and policy tweaks will be grandly announced."

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23 Feb '25

Rejecting illusions: The true meaning of Shiv and Mahashivratri.

"With Mahashivratri around the corner, many of us find ourselves struggling to discover the actual and deeper meaning of the festival. We wonder: surely there has to be something beyond the rituals and performances. More importantly, it strikes us when we are contemplative: who is Shiv?"

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16 Feb '25

Redefining Work: The Debate on Working Hours.

"The debate on working hours has intensified recently. Initially, it was suggested that Indians should work 70 hours a week, and recently, the chairman of a major organisation proposed 90-hour workweeks."

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09 Feb '25

How India Pays the Price for America's Climate Negligence.

"As wildfires rage, glaciers melt, cities drown, and farmlands crack under unrelenting drought, climate change is no longer a distant catastrophe—it is here, unfolding before our eyes."

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02 Feb '25

Gandhi: An Earthly Journey, Not a Divine Destination.

"He appeared very average, even unattractive. Short in stature, with a slender body, a dark complexion, and an ordinary face, those disproportionate earlobes! No broad shoulders, no wide chest."

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26 Jan '25

Republic Day Special: India Understood is India Loved.

"What constitutes a nation, and what does it really mean to love a nation? When someone says they love their country, what are they really expressing? Is it love for the land, the flag, or the cultural patterns that make a nation distinct?"

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19 Jan '25

Contemporising Kumbh: Ancient wisdom, modern relevance.

"Amrit—that is at the essence of the story behind the Kumbh festival. Where does the Amrit come from? It comes through self-reflection."

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19 Jan '25

Kumbh in the light of Vedanta: Truth beyond tradition.

"Another Kumbh festival is here. There are several ancient stories behind Kumbh. If the stories are taken merely as tales or folklore, then religion risks becoming merely traditional ritualism."

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19 Jan '25

Breaking through the cycle of exploitation in relationships.

"Our society embodies a stark contrast between its proclaimed life-affirmative ideals and the underlying suffering that prevails. Relationships, especially marriage, are often transactional and materialistic arrangements rather than expressions of love and understanding."

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12 Jan '25

Swami Vivekananda: Struggle, Resilience, and Legacy.

"In honor of Swami Vivekananda’s birthday, celebrated as Youth Day, seminars, meetings, and resolutions around youth empowerment take centerstage. The discussions surround Swami Ji’s feat in taking Vedanta to the world, yet the immense struggles and challenges he faced often go unacknowledged."

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05 Jan '25

Loneliness: The 21st Century Pandemic

"According to the recent Global State of Connections report, a quarter of the world’s population, around 1.92 billion, felt ‘lonely’ or ‘very lonely’. Research indicates that loneliness is closely linked to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, heart disease, and a shortened lifespan."

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29 Dec '24

2025: External challenges, Internal Solutions.

"The kind of challenges we face as we approach another new year are unprecedented. Given the novel and cataclysmic nature of these challenges, old approaches are not going to succeed."

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28 Dec '24

Meditation: A simple honesty beyond methods and routines

"Meditation is the submergence of the ego in its essential nature. It is at the root of all self-knowledge and wisdom. However, most often, what we call meditation is just escapism—using some ‘method of meditation’ to superficially soothe our restlessness or gain temporary and deceptive relief from stress."

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15 Dec '24

Welcoming Life, Without Conditions ( Covered by: The Sunday Guardian ).

"You look at the world, you look at two or twenty things, and an immediate discrimination arises within. You pick one of those things, thinking that one particular element, object, or option is better than the rest."

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08 Dec '24

Life without fear, and relationships without lies.

"Ostensibly, no one likes being lied to. Yet in our social and familial transactions, lies are so prevalent that they appear almost foundational to our relationships. Why?"

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01 Dec '24

Beyond the Separate Self: Transcending the Illusion of Separation.

"As humans, we often find ourselves trapped in an elaborate illusion—the belief that life is a perpetual negotiation between self-interest and collective welfare."

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24 Nov '24

Reclaiming Authenticity in a World of Impressions – Acharya Prashant in The Sunday Guardian.

Right since our birth, we are trained to conduct ourselves according to others’ expectations. Everything about us seems to come from outside; every single identity is social.

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20 May '24

Complex challenges necessitate consciousness and policy shift

Acharya Prashant tackles India’s urgent issues—climate change, animal rights, education, marginalized communities' rights, and youth employment. He stresses the dual need for external corrective actions and internal spiritual awareness, highlighting the anthropogenic roots of climate problems. The piece advocates for a transformative shift towards sustainable lifestyles and governance, envisioning a future where India leads with mindfulness and collective effort. Read more in this The Pioneer article.

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26 Apr '24

Redefining Feminism

Acharya Prashant delves into the intricacies of feminism, exploring identity, financial independence, and the paradox of empowerment. He addresses the dynamics of relationship choices, the question of motherhood, and the true meaning of freedom, challenging conventional notions and advocating for genuine liberation. Read more in the Indian Express.

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20 Feb '24

दूसरों के खिलाफ जाना आसान, अपने खिलाफ जाना मुश्किल

इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने पत्रिका में व्यक्त किया है कि दूसरों के खिलाफ जाना आसान होता है, क्योंकि हम उनके गुण और कमज़ोरियों को आसानी से देख सकते हैं। लेकिन अपने खिलाफ जाना मुश्किल होता है, क्योंकि इसमें हमें अपने दोषों को स्वीकार करने की जरूरत होती है। उन्होंने यह भी समझाया है कि अध्यात्मिक राह पर चलना भी इसी तरह का सफर है, जिसमें हमें अपने अंदर की गहराईयों को समझने और स्वीकार करने के लिए मेहनत की आवश्यकता होती है।

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23 Jan '24

कौन हैं तुलसी के राम?

इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने दैनिक जागरण में तुलसीदास के राम के गहरे अर्थ और उनकी व्याख्या पर प्रकाश डाला है। उन्होंने बताया है कि राम न केवल एक ऐतिहासिक और धार्मिक व्यक्तित्व हैं, बल्कि एक जीवन की वास्तविकता और आदर्श का प्रतीक भी हैं। लेख में तुलसीदास के राम की भक्ति, प्रेम और उनकी जीवन दृष्टि को विस्तृत रूप में समझाया गया है, जो आज के समाज में भी प्रासंगिक है।

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06 Jan '24

आंसू अगर सच्चे हैं तो भीतर आनंद ही आनंद है

आचार्य प्रशांत ने लोकदेश में लिखा है कि जैसे किसी ने कलेजा भींच रखा हो, और फिर जरा तुम तनाव मुक्त हो जाओ, जरा तुम आश्वस्त और स्वतंत्र अनुभव करो। आंसू अगर सच्चे हों तो भीतर आनंद ही आनंद है। उन्होंने यह बताने का प्रयास किया है कि वास्तविक भावनाएं और सच्ची भावुकता ही हमें आंतरिक शांति और सुख प्रदान कर सकती हैं। सच्चे आंसू एक ऐसी स्थिति को दर्शाते हैं जहां दिल हल्का होता है और मन को गहरा संतोष मिलता है।

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26 Dec '23

जीवन में दुख आएगा भी जाएगा भी

आचार्य प्रशांत ने दैनिक जागरण में लिखा है कि जीवन में दुःख आएगा, और यह भी सत्य है कि दुःख चला जाएगा। वे कहते हैं कि जब तुम्हारे जीवन में दुःख आएगा, तो तुम्हारा रोना स्वाभाविक होगा, लेकिन जब दुःख चला जाएगा, तब भी तुम रो सकते हो। इसका मतलब यह है कि पहले आँसू दुःख के होते हैं और दूसरे आँसू दुःख से मुक्ति के होते हैं।

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19 Oct '23

शिव-शक्ति

आचार्य प्रशांत ने राष्ट्रीय सहारा में लिखा है कि नवरात्रि का समय शक्ति की समझ के लिए उपयुक्त है। वे बताते हैं कि शिव केंद्र और शिव सत्य का मतलब है कि शिव शाश्वत सत्य और शांति का प्रतीक हैं। वहीं, शक्ति जीवन का प्रतीक है, जो जीवन को ऊर्जा और गति प्रदान करती है। आचार्य प्रशांत के अनुसार, नवरात्रि के अवसर पर हमें शक्ति की इस महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका को समझना चाहिए और इसे अपनी जीवन यात्रा में एक मार्गदर्शक के रूप में स्वीकार करना चाहिए।

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07 Oct '23

असल संघर्ष मन के विकारों को हटाना है

आचार्य प्रशांत ने अमर उजाला के इस लेख में बताया है कि जीवन का असली संघर्ष बाहरी परिस्थितियों से नहीं, बल्कि हमारे मन के विकारों से है। उन्होंने समझाया कि हमारा मानव जीवन कीमती है और इसे सही दिशा में ले जाने के लिए हमें अपने मन के विकारों को पहचानना और हटाना जरूरी है। लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने कहा कि हमारे मन में उठने वाले क्रोध, लालच, ईर्ष्या, और अन्य नकारात्मक भावनाओं को नियंत्रित करना असली संघर्ष है। उन्होंने जोर दिया कि आत्म-चिंतन और आत्म-साक्षात्कार के माध्यम से हम अपने भीतर के इन विकारों से मुक्ति पा सकते हैं और सच्चे अर्थों में आध्यात्मिक जीवन जी सकते हैं।

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21 Sep '23

मन सही लक्ष्य से भटक क्यों जाता है?

आचार्य प्रशांत बताते हैं कि हम जन्म से ही दुख में जीते हैं और इसका सही ज्ञान नहीं होता। वे कहते हैं कि अपने दर्द को समझना ही सही मार्ग दिखा सकता है। इस लेख में आत्मज्ञान, संवेदनशीलता, और मन की स्थिरता पर जोर दिया गया है। राष्ट्रीय सहारा के इस लेख में, यह बताया गया है कि अगर हम अपनी स्थिति का सटीक संज्ञान लें तो हमारी भटकन समाप्त हो सकती है।

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31 Aug '23

किसकी रक्षा हो

रक्षाबंधन का सही अर्थ समझाते हुए राष्ट्रीय सहारा के इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने कहा कि यह केवल भाई-बहन के बीच का पर्व नहीं है। विभिन्न पुराणों और धार्मिक ग्रंथों में रक्षा के व्यापक अर्थ दिए गए हैं। आज हमें पर्यावरण, भाषा, संस्कृति और समाज की रक्षा की जरूरत है। यह पर्व हमें व्यापक दृष्टिकोण अपनाने और सभी कमजोर एवं जरूरतमंदों की रक्षा करने का संदेश देता है। आचार्य प्रशांत ने कहा कि हमें हर प्रकार की सुरक्षा और संरक्षण के लिए प्रयास करना चाहिए।

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26 Aug '23

क्या हम यज्ञ जानते हैं?

आचार्य प्रशांत ने यज्ञ के वास्तविक अर्थ पर चर्चा करते हुए दैनिक जागरण के इस लेख में बताया कि आज के समय में लोग यज्ञ का सही अर्थ नहीं समझते। यज्ञ का मतलब केवल पूजा-पाठ नहीं है, बल्कि यह आत्मिक और आध्यात्मिक शुद्धि का माध्यम है। यदि हम यज्ञ का सही मतलब नहीं जानते, तो इसका सही लाभ भी नहीं उठा सकते। यज्ञ के सही अर्थ को समझना और उसका पालन करना ही सच्ची भक्ति है।

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24 Aug '23

समस्याओं का निवारण

आचार्य प्रशांत ने दैनिक जागरण के इस लेख में बताया कि हमारी परेशानियों का समाधान हमारे स्वयं के भीतर है। यदि हम अपनी वास्तविक समस्या को पहचानें और उसे सही तरीके से समझें, तो हम उसका सही समाधान पा सकते हैं। इधर-उधर भटकने और बाहरी उपायों पर निर्भर रहने के बजाय हमें अपने अंदर झांकने और समस्या के मूल कारण को समझने की आवश्यकता है। सच्ची शांति और समाधान तभी मिल सकता है जब हम अपनी समस्याओं का सामना ईमानदारी से करें।

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29 Jul '23

अध्यात्म बिलकुल अलग ही आयाम की बात करता है

आचार्य प्रशांत ने दैनिक जागरण के इस लेख में बताया कि अध्यात्म एक अंतिम बिंदु का नाम है, जो सामान्य जीवन से बहुत अलग है। यह आत्म-जागरण और सच्ची समझ की ओर ले जाता है। उन्होंने कहा कि शरीर और इस दुनिया में आना शुभ है, लेकिन असली शांति और खुशी अध्यात्म के माध्यम से ही प्राप्त होती है। अध्यात्म का अर्थ है, अपने सच्चे आत्म को जानना और अपने मूल उद्देश्य को समझना।

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08 Apr '23

They way to assured success

Acharya Prashant emphasizes that true success lies in making the right choices rather than simply achieving goals. He highlights the importance of aligning decisions with one's core self and inner needs, asserting that victory is found in the act of choosing the right path itself, rather than in the attainment of external outcomes.

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08 Apr '23

They way to assured success

Acharya Prashant emphasizes that true success lies in making the right choices rather than simply achieving goals. He highlights the importance of aligning decisions with one's core self and inner needs, asserting that victory is found in the act of choosing the right path itself, rather than in the attainment of external outcomes.

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06 Apr '23

वर्तमान

राष्ट्रीय सहारा के इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने धर्म-परिवर्तन पर हो रहे विवाद पर कहा कि यह आत्मिक शांति और सच्चे धर्म की खोज में होना चाहिए, न कि आर्थिक या शारीरिक लाभ के लिए। उन्होंने समझाया कि बाहरी दिखावे या लाभ के लिए धर्म बदलना आत्मिक विकास में बाधा उत्पन्न कर सकता है।

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25 Mar '23

Self-help versus spirituality

Acharya Prashant challenges the self-help illusion in The Pioneer, asserting true spirituality begins when the ego accepts it needs no aid, and transformation occurs by relinquishing ego control.

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24 Mar '23

क्या शक्ति ही शिव का द्वार है?

तुम्हारे शरीर पर अगर चोट लग जाए, ख़ास तौर पर यदि मस्तिष्क में कोई आकर हथौड़ा मार दे तो कहाँ गई चेतना? कहाँ गई बुद्धि? तो मनुष्य को यह समझना होगा कि है तो वह प्रकृति का ही पुत्र है। शरीर माँ है जिससे चेतना उठती है और चेतना पुरुष है—इसकी अवहेलना करके तुम कहीं पहुँच नहीं सकते, कम-से-कम तुम कोई विजय नहीं पा सकते।

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15 Mar '23

दूसरों की सोच को खुद पर न हावी होने दें

अमर उजाला में प्रकाशित इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत लिखते हैं अपना भला-बुरा सोचने-समझने की शक्ति आपको धीरे-धीरे हर हालात से लड़ना सिखा देती है और इस काबिल बना देती है कि आप दूसरों की परछाई से निकलकर अपने जीवन के अहम निर्णय खुद ले सकें। खुद पर दूसरों की सोच हावी नहीं होने दें और अपनी विचारधारा को स्पष्ट रखें। आलोचनाओं से प्रभावित हुए बिना अपने उद्देश्य की ओर आगे बढ़ें। अपनी ताकत और कमजोरियों को पहचानकर जीवन में आत्मनिर्भर बनें। आत्मनिर्भरता ही आपकी सच्ची शक्ति है।

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18 Feb '23

क्यों की जाती है शिवलिंग की पूजा

आचार्य प्रशांत द्वारा लोकदेश में लिखा यह लेख शिवलिंग की पूजा के पीछे के आध्यात्मिक महत्व को स्पष्ट करता है। शिवलिंग चेतना का प्रतीक है। वे बताते हैं कि शिवलिंग की पूजा न केवल पौराणिक कथाओं में बल्कि हमारे जीवन के विभिन्न पहलुओं में भी गहरी अर्थवत्ता रखती है। शिवलिंग को चेतना और सृजनात्मक शक्ति के प्रतीक के रूप में देखा जाता है।

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22 Jan '23

जो कठिनतम है उसे साध लो, बाकि अपने आप सध जाएगा

राष्ट्रीय हिंदी मेल के इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत बताते हैं कि हमें सबसे कठिन काम को प्राथमिकता देनी चाहिए। कठिनाइयों का सामना करने से आत्म-विकास और दृढ़ता का निर्माण होता है। समस्याओं से निपटते समय हमें धैर्य, आत्म-संयम, और निरंतर प्रयास की आवश्यकता होती है। इस प्रक्रिया में अन्य कार्य भी सहजता से पूर्ण हो जाते हैं।

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01 Jan '23

Do not consume that which poisons you

Delve into Acharya Prashant's illuminating perspective on consumption and inner peace in The Pioneer. As a renowned Vedanta teacher, he advocates for mindful consumption, urging readers to align their consumption habits with personal well-being and environmental sustainability.

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22 Dec '22

जो गलत है, वो छूटता क्यों नहीं?

इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने गहराई से विश्लेषण किया है कि क्यों गलत आदतें और विचारधाराएं हमारे जीवन से हटने का नाम नहीं लेतीं। उन्होंने बताया कि गलतियों को पकड़कर रखने का कारण हमारा मनोवैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक जकड़न है। लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने आत्मनिरीक्षण और आत्मज्ञान के माध्यम से इन गलतियों से मुक्ति पाने के उपाय सुझाए हैं। - Loledg

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24 Nov '22

आप खिलिए, आपका बच्चा स्वत: खिल उठेगा

आचार्य प्रशांत ने "मयूर संवाद" में बताया कि बच्चों के मानसिक स्वास्थ्य की देखभाल के लिए उन्हें उनकी स्वाभाविकता और मौलिकता के साथ बढ़ने देना चाहिए। उन्होंने कहा कि बच्चों पर शैक्षिक सफलता का बोझ डालने के बजाय, उनके खेल-कूद और रचनात्मकता को प्रोत्साहित करना जरूरी है। बच्चों को उनके तनाव से मुक्त करने के लिए उन्हें अपनी रुचियों को खोजने और उनके अनुसार बढ़ने का अवसर देना चाहिए।

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06 Nov '22

इंटरनेट के युग में बाज़ार से गायब होती किताबें

"स्वतंत्र चेतना" में आचार्य प्रशांत ने इंटरनेट के युग में किताबों की घटती लोकप्रियता पर चिंता जताई है। उन्होंने बताया कि डिजिटल मीडिया और मनोरंजन के बढ़ते प्रभाव के कारण किताबों की बिक्री में भारी गिरावट आई है। आचार्य प्रशांत ने कहा कि किताबें गहन ज्ञान और आत्म-विश्लेषण के लिए आवश्यक हैं, और उनके बिना समाज में गंभीरता और समझ का अभाव हो सकता है।

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31 Oct '22

ग्लोबल वॉर्मिंग: हम बढ़ रहे हैं विनाश की ओर

"दैनिक लोकदेश" में प्रकाशित इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने ग्लोबल वार्मिंग के खतरों पर प्रकाश डाला है। उन्होंने बताया कि हम लगातार विनाश की ओर बढ़ रहे हैं और इसे रोकने के लिए तुरंत कार्रवाई की आवश्यकता है। उन्होंने पर्यावरण संरक्षण के लिए व्यक्तिगत और सामूहिक प्रयासों पर जोर दिया, ताकि आने वाली पीढ़ियों को एक सुरक्षित और स्वस्थ पर्यावरण मिल सके।

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29 Oct '22

लिखनी है नई कहानी?

"दैनिक लोकदेश" में प्रकाशित इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने नई कहानी लिखने की प्रेरणा दी है। उन्होंने कहा कि बदलाव लाने के लिए जागरूक होना जरूरी है और हमें अपने पुराने विचारों और प्रथाओं को बदलने की हिम्मत करनी चाहिए। आचार्य प्रशांत ने बताया कि अगर हम बड़े बदलाव की चाह रखते हैं, तो हमें खुद को और समाज को बदलने के लिए आगे आना होगा और नए दृष्टिकोण अपनाने होंगे।

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08 Sep '22

अध्यात्म संसार में आने का नाम नहीं है; बल्कि एक अंतिम विदाई का नाम है

"लोकदेश" में प्रकाशित इस लेख में आचार्य प्रशांत ने कहा कि आध्यात्म संसार में आने का नहीं, बल्कि अंतिम विदाई का नाम है। उन्होंने समझाया कि सच्चा आध्यात्म व्यक्ति को माया और भ्रम से मुक्त करता है। आचार्य प्रशांत ने आत्मज्ञान की राह पर चलने और भौतिक इच्छाओं को त्यागने की आवश्यकता पर जोर दिया।

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31 Jul '22

The Science Behind Spirituality

Delve into Acharya Prashant's profound views on the intersection of science and spirituality, as covered by The Pioneer. He emphasizes the logical foundation of true spirituality, contrasting it with prevalent superstitions in today's spiritual market. Acharya Prashant's teachings highlight the importance of honesty and clarity in understanding both oneself and the world, advocating for a scientific approach that transcends mere materialism.

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15 May '19

Mind IT

"If you find yourself procrastinating, if you find that you have fixed a schedule for yourself and you can't stick to it, then that is a clear indicator that you have filled up your life with things you don't love. One does not postpone joy. One only postpones suffering. And that is procrastination."

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