The Apotheosis of Narcissism
The modern world runs on narcissism. Vanity is ubiquitous. Pomposity or an inflated sense of self is not avant-garde. For millennia, people have used the tale of Narcissus from ancient Greece to criticize this repugnant practice. A suave young...
आत्म-विउपनिवेशीकरण: Decolonisation of the Individual
Decolonisation is the removal of domination by a nation on foreign territories. While it was historically a territorial process, it has over time acquired subtler elements, particularly around the development and promotion of indigenous knowledge....
Spirituo-scientific Tephra from Tesla’s Vedantic Upsurge
Nikola Tesla was a scientific luminary who undertook seminal work in the field of electromagnetism, taking the study of modern alternating current electricity supply systems to such heights that the SI unit of magnetic flux density was named tesla...
Can we attribute any absoluteness to the manifested multiplicity?
Unity is indivisible non-duality and lies at the heart of disparate scientific, philosophical and spiritual pursuits of mankind over the years. It has intrigued and fascinated all and sundry, as much as, if not more than, the conceptual element of...
VIKRAMSHILA UNIVERSITY, THE KNOWLEDGE BASE OF ANCIENT INDIA
Bihar is the only state of the Indian subcontinent that conveys many historical monuments from the early stage of its civilisation, amassed a pile of historical incidents, and allured millions worldwide for years. Every pattern of masonry of...
A Perspective on Modern Strategies to Effectively Stand for Dharma
Dharma is one of the most misunderstood, distorted and attacked concepts in the contemporary world. Some think of it as a religion, others a way of life while still others think of it as a set of moral rules and ethics. It is all of these and...
Standing for Dharma but not with those Adharmic Hindus who pervert its essence
A few days ago, a person who had commented on a tweet of mine a while back wrote in, saying that he supported Sati and felt it was a very `pure and sacred practice'. He said, and I quote, "Sati was a glorious practice. I admire the women who took...
The Fatuity of Hubris: Who art thou?
Arrogance is stupid. Only the weak are arrogant. Arrogance is the tool of the charlatan who tries to market a certain item as that which it is not. For even when, at a worldly level, one may have attained much, does that attainment determine your...
Shiva as the Fundamental Reality underlying the diversity of phenomena in the Universe
What is our universe made of? What are the building blocks and the fundamental reality that is? Greek philosopher Democritus came up with the idea of atoms as being fundamental in 400 BC. Over the succeeding millenia, one went from Ḥasan Ibn...
Universalism, Permissivism And Supererogation: The Convergence of Faith
The Absolute Truth, both, exists and exists-not! Paradoxical as this statement is, this is the underlying contradiction that truly defines the Absolute Truth. This is because the Absolute Truth transcends the relative, the subjective, the worldly,...
