Hindu aesthetics begins where Western aesthetics ends — the Indian tradition was interested in the effect of art on the soul, not the representation of reality, and this difference reveals two fundamentally incompatible metaphysical starting points.
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A Communist turned anti-Communist who witnessed both fascism and Stalinism firsthand — Koestler's intellectual trajectory maps the 20th century's ideological catastrophes and anticipates the civilizational questions that follow when every utopia collapses.
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Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 1, from Before to Now
AI arrives not as neutral technology but as a civilizational event: a comparison of simulation theory, Vedānta, and modern physics asks whether the intelligence emerging from our machines is something the Dhārmika tradition already has a vocabulary for.
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Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 2, from Now to Henceforth
Part 2: a proactive Dhārmika framework for navigating artificial intelligence — neither uncritical adoption nor reflexive rejection, but a principled engagement grounded in the Indian understanding of consciousness and purpose.
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Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma
Drawing on H. G. Wells, the Mahābhārata, and dharmic philosophy to argue that the collapse of the distinction between culture and barbarism is not just a social crisis but a civilizational one — and that dharma is the only framework adequate to it.
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The Difference Between Us - on One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics
What actually separates the Hindu and Abrahamic worldviews at the deepest level is not ritual or scripture but the one-life versus multiple-life metaphysical foundation — and the implications of that single difference ramify through everything.
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Dukh, Depression and Journeys of Life - Depression is the Absence of Dukkha - Part I
The provocative argument that depression is the absence of duḥkha, not its presence — how the Sanskrit framework for suffering provides an experiential map that modern psychology, focused on symptom-removal, cannot offer.
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Four foundational aphorisms for understanding Indian civilizational consciousness, drawn from across the tradition — compact enough to internalize, substantial enough to orient an entire intellectual project.
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Grasping for the Beyond - On a Critical Schism in the Modern Psyche
Weber's disenchantment and Jung's diagnosis of the Western mind as a madhouse of abstractions — arguing that the modern psyche's loss of the sacred is precisely the illness that India's living metaphysical tradition can address.
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Hindu View of the Simulation Hypothesis
Nick Bostrom's simulation hypothesis examined alongside the concept of māyā — where the two frameworks converge, where they fundamentally diverge, and why the Hindu model is teleologically richer than the computational one.
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Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 1
Part 1: why Hinduism sits in the blind spot of open-minded, progressive Western intellectual discourse — not from bigotry but from a structural failure of the secular liberal framework to perceive non-Abrahamic religion on its own terms.
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Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 2
Part 2: continuing the diagnosis of why even well-meaning Western and westernized Indian intellectuals systematically fail to engage with Hinduism — and what a genuine encounter with it would actually require.
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The definitive modern scholar of Indian philosophy: his systematic expositions of the darshanas remain the clearest English-language entry point into Hindu metaphysics and epistemology — rigorous without being reductive.
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A Karnataka polymath whose encyclopedic work on Hindu iconography and temple architecture reveals the metaphysical logic embedded in every sculptural form and spatial arrangement — the temple not as monument but as cosmological diagram made stone.
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The school that launched Hindu renaissance: Vivekananda's reading of Vedanta as both universal philosophy and basis for Hindu action produced the template every subsequent Hindu revivalist movement has worked with, consciously or not.
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A psychedelic philosopher whose stoned-ape hypothesis, archaic revival, and novelty theory sit at the fringe of respectable discourse but ask the right questions: why did human consciousness change so dramatically, and what exactly is it moving toward?
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What the Bodha Logo Means - The Square, the Circle and the Eye of Wisdom
The Bodha logo decoded: how a simple geometric mark encodes the entire civilizational philosophy — the fractal structure of Hindu consciousness expressed in the relationship between square, circle, and the space they share.
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English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality.
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English edition or translation of the Brhadaranyak Upanishad, highlighting selfhood, negation, sacrifice, and the search for brahman.
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English edition or translation of the Chandogya Upanishad, highlighting meditation, sacred speech, ritual symbolism, and the teaching of tat tvam asi.
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English edition or translation of the Isha Upanishad, highlighting renunciation, action, inner self, and the relation between knowledge and world-engagement.
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English edition or translation of the Katha Upanishad, highlighting death, the self, disciplined choice, and liberation through insight.
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English edition or translation of the Kena Upanishad, highlighting the limits of ordinary cognition and the grounding of mind and speech in brahman.
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English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline.
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English edition or translation of the Mandukya Upanishad, highlighting Om, waking-dream-sleep states, and the non-dual fourth state.
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English edition or translation of the Mundaka Upanishad, highlighting higher and lower knowledge, brahman, renunciation, and liberation.
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English edition or translation of the Prashna Upanishad, highlighting six questions on prana, cosmology, Om, and the inner self.
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English edition or translation of the Taittiriya Upanishad, highlighting the sheaths of the self, brahman as bliss, and the transmission of Vedic learning.
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Edition or translation of the Yoga Sutras with emphasis on mind, practice, samadhi, and liberation.
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Translation and explanation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras focused on discipline, concentration, and liberation.
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Yogasutra with Commentary of Madhavacharya
Yoga Sutra text accompanied by traditional commentary for philosophical and practical interpretation.
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Classical Advaita work on non-duality, consciousness, and the Mandukya Upanishad.
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Vedantic sub-commentarial text presenting core Advaita positions in a compact form.
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Paratrishika Vivarana by Abhinavagupta
Abhinavagupta’s esoteric Shaiva commentary on language, mantra, consciousness, and manifestation.
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Philosophical text associated with non-dual Shaiva traditions and the path to liberation.
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The Advaita Vedanta of Brahmasiddhi
Study of the Brahmasiddhi tradition and major issues in Advaita metaphysics and epistemology.
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