Aryavarta

Me and my friend Dennis were great dreamers nearing the end of our school lives. We spent many afternoons in Saket thinking about the future of our country and our own futures, about doing something for all the problems facing our country and the world today. After many years of college education, I met him again this month, ... and we had a opportunity to look back over our dreams and re-evaluate our purpose. I asked him a question that plagues all our minds as a society, "Hey, Dennis, after nearly five years of college education, do you think we have lost our way? Do you think we will actually be able to live out our dreams that we used to speak about so passionately? It just feels that after five years of college education my present and future are in great darkness, I feel like we have lost our way, I don't know if we are in a position to live great lives anymore. It seems so hopeless."  The question sparked a discussion in us that tore away all the other concer

It's a bit of a cosmic joke that to "awaken to their true self" people don't have to change at all, they don't have to change their lifestyles or their spiritual practice, or their habits or any other doings, or what they read or how they worship. But they always ask about exactly these things, about how they have to change, how they have to improve, what they have to do, and which God they have to worship. Spiritual teachers are also no help to us here; their whole enterprise being about helping people who come to them asking for advice; prescribing mantras, kriyas, yogas to attain something, to achieve something, to become something.  And this paradox that the spoken word is not able to traverse is created precisely because there is no possible way to quantify or communicate the immensity of the experience of god-consciousness. It is like telling someone about what drowning or dying  feels like, one can only attempt to point towards the experience but cann