Vietnam in 10 days
Vietnam in 10 days
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Within man exists an ocean of bliss
Yet he willingly prefers to live a life full of misery, pain and suffering. This is the tragedy of human life. Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswami Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswami (1892–1954), born Narasimha Sastri in Sringeri, became the 34th Jagadguru of…
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
John Locke John Locke, born in 1632 in Wrington, England, was a pivotal Enlightenment philosopher and founder of British empiricism. Rejecting innate ideas, he argued knowledge arises from experience, articulated in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Politically, Locke’s Two…
Physics and Psyche are complementary
Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), Austrian theoretical physicist, was renowned for his sharp intellect and uncompromising rigor. He formulated the Pauli exclusion principle, a cornerstone of quantum mechanics, stating that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state. This…
Iccha Shakti: When the Desire to Know Becomes the Path
There is a moment where desire is no longer personal. It becomes cosmic. In our language, we call it Iccha Shakti—often translated as willpower. But this translation feels incomplete, almost mechanical. What I am beginning to sense is that Iccha…
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear
Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allan Poe, master of Gothic imagination, fused mystery, melancholy, and psychological depth into enduring tales and poems. Born in 1809, orphaned young, he struggled with poverty yet pioneered detective fiction and refined the short story form.…
The Fullness of Emptiness
How I Live as an Empty Cup and a Full Cup at Once I am an empty cup.I am a full cup. And if that sounds contradictory, perhaps that is only because we have forgotten how life actually speaks. Life…
God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? … If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
Wager then without hesitation that He is. Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher, fused scientific brilliance with spiritual depth. He contributed to probability theory, fluid mechanics, and invented the Pascaline, an early calculator. His “Pascal’s…
God is in this moment. Meet and receive Him there
Evelyn Underhill Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) was a pioneering English writer, poet, and spiritual guide, best known for her influential work Mysticism (1911). She bridged theology, psychology, and literature to illuminate the inner life of the soul. Underhill emphasized that mysticism…
Anyone who believes in magic is a fool
Harry Houdini Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in 1874 Budapest, rose from poverty in America to global fame as the master of escape. Beginning with vaudeville, he astounded audiences by slipping free from handcuffs, chains, straitjackets, and sealed containers, often…
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac Paul Dirac, born in 1902, was a pioneering English theoretical physicist whose work shaped quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He formulated the Dirac equation, elegantly merging quantum theory with special relativity, predicting antimatter’s existence—a discovery later confirmed with…
The Ocean Never Forgot
On consciousness, form, mind, waves, and the strange play of forgetting There is something deeply mysterious about life. We appear here as bodies.We speak, desire, fear, struggle, protect, seek, love, build, break, heal, and hope.We move through time as if…
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk
Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler, born in Basel in 1707, stands as one of history’s greatest mathematical geniuses. A polymath, he advanced calculus, mechanics, optics, astronomy, and number theory, while founding graph theory and topology. His elegant notations—function , for the…
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
Baruch Spinoza Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Jewish descent, crafted a radical vision of reality grounded in reason and necessity. In his magnum opus Ethics, he identified God with Nature, proposing a single infinite substance expressing itself through…
The Ground That Was Never Lost
There was a time I thought I was this body. Solid. Separate. Defined. Then I heard an analogy. The body is like a pot.And the pot… is just clay. The form is temporary.The substance remains. And something softened. — Then…
🌿 Meditation
Remembering the Infinite Through the Finite ✨ The Simplest Way to See It In this moment, two movements are happening at once. 🟢 Movement 1 — Experience 🔵 Movement 2 — Awareness 🧭 What Meditation Really Is Meditation is not escaping life.It…
We live in the best of all possible worlds
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German polymath, philosopher, and mathematician, sought harmony between reason, faith, and science. He co-invented calculus independently of Newton, developed binary arithmetic foundational to computing, and envisioned a universal language of logic. His metaphysics…
I paint my own reality
Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a Mexican painter whose art fused surrealism, symbolism, and indigenous tradition. Stricken by polio as a child and severely injured in a bus accident, she endured lifelong pain, channeling suffering into vivid self-portraits. Her…
What if there is nothing beyond this life?
Ajita Kesakambali Ajita Kesakambali, an ancient Indian materialist philosopher, is remembered as one of the earliest proponents of Lokayata thought. He rejected the authority of the Vedas, denied the existence of an afterlife, karma, and rebirth, and dismissed the soul…
The Heaven is spherical in shape and the earth too
Claudius Prolemy Claudius Ptolemy, born around 100 CE in Alexandria, was a Roman citizen of Greek descent who became the most influential astronomer of antiquity. His Almagest, completed circa 150 CE, presented a geocentric universe where Earth stood immobile at…
The Action That Leaves No Trace
I used to think detachment meant distance. Step back.Don’t feel too much.Don’t get involved. But the Gita whispers something far more radical. Not distance.Not withdrawal. But presence without residue. — There is a way of actingwhere nothing sticks. No pride.No regret.No…
Science is the process of thinking God’s thoughts after Him
Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler, born in Weil der Stadt in 1571, was a German astronomer, mathematician, and natural philosopher central to the Scientific Revolution. Initially trained in theology, he embraced Copernican heliocentrism under Michael Maestlin’s guidance. Working with Tycho Brahe’s…
As Above, So Below
Hermes Trismegistus Hermes Trismegistus, “Thrice-Great Hermes,” unites Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth, embodying wisdom, writing, and divine communication. A syncretic sage of the Hellenistic era, he is credited with the Hermetica, texts blending philosophy, mysticism, and cosmology. These writings explore…
Knowledge is Consciousness
There was a time I believed knowledge was something I accumulated. Books.Teachers.Experiences.Conversations. Now I see something entirely different. What I call knowledge… is not something I gather.It is something I become aware of. — From Information to Consciousness Information informs…
Contradiction is Progress
George Friedrich Hegel Hegel, born in Stuttgart in 1770, became the central figure of German Idealism. His philosophy revolved around the dialectic—thesis, antithesis, synthesis—where contradictions drive progress. In Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), he traced consciousness evolving toward absolute knowing. For…
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, born in Italy in 1225, became one of Christianity’s greatest thinkers. A Dominican friar, he harmonized faith and reason, drawing deeply from Aristotle. His monumental Summa Theologica explored God’s existence, ethics, and the nature of the…
Closing the Eyes, Opening the Cosmos: From Senses to the Silent Witness
Most of our life is lived outward. Pulled by colour.Captured by form.Moved by what we see. Among all the senses, the eyes dominate. They don’t just observe the world — they define it.They flood the mind with impressions.They trigger reactions…
It is an honour
My sketch by Master Artist Purav. Presented on my birthday.
Embodying the Spiritual and the Material
Through Maps and Practices I did not begin with a theory. I began with a discomfort. A quiet feeling thatthe world I was seeingand the one I was sensingwere not two. But I didn’t yet knowhow they met. — So…
Make yourself similar to God, as far as possible
Maimonides Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides or Rambam, was born in Córdoba and later settled in Fustat, Egypt. A polymath, he served as physician to Saladin while leading the Jewish community. His monumental Mishneh Torah codified Jewish law, while…
Those who study the stars have God for a teacher
Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe, born in 1546 at Knutstorp Castle, was a Danish nobleman turned astronomer. Famous for losing part of his nose in a duel, he wore a brass prosthetic. His passion ignited after witnessing a solar eclipse in…
Our imperfections make us so perfect for one another
Jane Austen Jane Austen (1775–1817), the English novelist, crafted enduring works that blend wit, irony, and keen social observation. Her novels—Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion—explore themes of love, class, and morality within the constraints of Regency…
Rewriting Your Past, Prewriting Your Future
I didn’t expect the Ashtavakra Gita to feel like this. Not like philosophy.Not like scripture.But like a quiet remembering… of something I never really lost. As I read Swami Chinmayananda’s words, I find myself not just understanding… but verifying.As if…
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who revolutionized humanity’s view of the cosmos. He proposed the heliocentric model, asserting that Earth and other planets orbit the Sun, challenging centuries of geocentric belief rooted in Ptolemaic…
When Light Becomes You
…the point where seeing ends and being begins Many ask— What is the point of reaching the highest light of consciousness? A fair question.A very human question. Because the mind wants purpose.The body wants benefit.The ego wants achievement. But what…
Light Without Light
…the knowing before knowledge We speak of light so casually. We switch it on.We measure it.We chase it at sunrise and paint it at sunset. But this is not the light I am pointing to. Not sunlight.Not electricity.Not the soft…
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics
Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the Italian polymath, revolutionized science through his pioneering use of observation and mathematics. He improved the telescope, unveiling celestial wonders like Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, challenging geocentric orthodoxy. His support for heliocentrism, inspired by…
Being is a Poem. Just begun is man
Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger, born in Messkirch in 1889, revolutionized philosophy with Being and Time (1927), where he explored the meaning of “Being.” He introduced Dasein—human existence—as fundamentally characterized by “being-in-the-world.” Heidegger emphasized authenticity, temporality, and the inevitability of death…
God is the ground and Power of Being
Paul Tillich Paul Tillich, born in Germany in 1886, became one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. He integrated existential philosophy with Christian theology, emphasizing God as the “Ground of Being” rather than a being among…
Truth always stands with the minority and
The minority is stronger than the majority Søren Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard, born in Copenhagen in 1813, pioneered existential philosophy by emphasizing individual choice, faith, and subjective truth. He critiqued Hegelian rationalism, insisting that authentic existence arises from personal responsibility and…