Let us rewind back a several thousand years to huge battlefield in the northern part of today’s India which is completely enveloped by the massive armies of the two warring camps. The finest and the best of the warriors from all over the civilized world have assembled in this battlefield, to fight for one of [...]

Update: Do check Hari’s comments to this post. They correct the misinterpretations of quite a few things mentioned in this post.
Having finished reading Sri Shankaracharya’s Bhagavad Gita Bhasya, I am motivated to learn the Bhagavad Gita by heart. I intend to read the other commentaries, especially by Sri Madhvacharya,  and also intend to learn the [...]

Imagine a infinitely huge flat disc spinning at an arbitrary speed. Let, at various angles, one experience various things like heat, pleasure, violence, and so on. At the opposite end, let one experience the counterparts, i.e,  cold, pain, non-violence etc.
As one is closer to the center, faster does one travel through these dualities. As one [...]

“Gotee, what’s wrong with you man?”, a friend asked.
“Why, what happened?”, I asked back, wondering which of my idiosyncrasies was she referring to.
“You’re reading the Bhagavad Gita it seems! You’re going to temple daily. Knowing you, and the rate at which you change, I think after five years in the US, you’ll come back a [...]