Author: vj

I feel that three quarters of the first shloka of the Isha Upanishad is enough for someone to see what I have seen. Shlokas are usually written in two lines of text. Here is the first shloka: Line 1: first half: Ishavasyamidam sarvam There are many ways to understand this. I understand this to mean…

Once I understand that all Prakriti is one manifest universe, the rock and the dog and the human are all shapes in this one reality. Therefore, when a mass of molecules gets energised by something called “life”, some autogenous reactions are started within that mass. And this allows those molecules to form structures (tissues), extract…

There is this big western idea that meditation is a calming exercise. If done right, it always calms the mind, gives the practitioner inner peace. So, just like doctors prescribe antacids to calm a troubled digestive system, various teachers and experts prescribe meditation for calming troubled minds.Then, when it doesn’t give the expected results, scholarly…