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Shifting Framework of Ethics in the Journey of Self Inquiry

In this article, I take up one of the most complex and vexing issues that face any seeker in the journey of self-inquiry. The article begins with the journal of a student of self-inquiry who talks about his need for social approval and how it contradicts his ethics imbibed in childhood. In response to his journal, I wrote this article to show how a student of self-inquiry in the modern capitalistic society has to navigate through different ethical frameworks in his journey to freedom, right from childhood, till he is ultimately freed from all ethical frameworks, reaching the state of spontaneous compassion as the consummation of self-inquiry. … Read More Shifting Framework of Ethics in the Journey of Self Inquiry

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A Life Lived in Entirety : Four Aims, Four Stages and Four Classes of Human Life – Part 1

An article which starts off with describing the various classifications of the ancient Hindu way of living and their relevance for the modern world. But I run into a self dialogue with myself about what is my viewpoint while I am writing this article. For the rest of the article I spend time exploring how my viewpoints are not fixed but fluid. … Read More A Life Lived in Entirety : Four Aims, Four Stages and Four Classes of Human Life – Part 1

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Donning my new identity as a Philosopher – A Discussion on Evolution of Consciousness and Personal Identities

An article explaining how consciousness evolves in individuals through different stages as a change in self identity. I examine my own evolution and show that it is a universal model which was present in ancient Hindu culture as well as present in modern writers of the west such as Anodea Judith. … Read More Donning my new identity as a Philosopher – A Discussion on Evolution of Consciousness and Personal Identities

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