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Vedic philosophy, read closely
What I Hear in the Lord's Prayer After Twenty Years of Sanskrit (Part 2)
The strange word behind «daily bread», the debts nobody can collect, and who exactly does the tempting.
What I Hear in the Lord's Prayer After Twenty Years of Sanskrit (Part 1)
Our Father, the hallowed name, the kingdom that has to be asked for — line by line, through Vedānta.
The Four Floors of Happiness
Consciousness has floors, and each floor has its own idea of what happiness is. Most religion lives on the second one.
Can Goodness Be Measured?
A reader proposed auditing faith by its public results. The tradition has already answered — verse by verse.
Faith Is an Appetite, Not an Opinion
Every tradition calls faith the first step. Almost nobody says what it is made of, or where it comes from.
Krishna Tells Arjuna to Destroy His Future
Read one way, the Bhagavad-gītā is God talking a man into a war. Read another, it is the clearest thing ever written about where happiness is not.
Yoga Doesn't Mean What You Think
The word means connection — not stretching, not calm, not self-improvement. And the tradition insists the connection has someone on the other end.
The Word Everyone Translates Wrong
Dharma does not mean duty, religion or law. It means what holds you up — and getting it wrong blurs an entire library.
The Hunger No Meal Can Fix
We call it stress, boredom, ambition, loneliness. One old tradition calls it hunger — and says we keep feeding it the wrong thing.
The Most Respectable Form of Greed
There are two kinds of passion in a human being. The second one wears the clothes of virtue — and that is what makes it hard to see.