Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

In intense love you witness the formless reality

Shiva is considered to be the lord of creation and destruction. His abode is Kailash Mansarovar where Shiva spoke to his wife Parvati referred as Devi in this article. Devi when realised that her husband is not an ordinary person but the lord himself, she posed some most significant questions about mysteries of life. Shiva […]

Why The Real May Not Be The Real

Ancient Greek Philosophers constantly worked towards changing our perspective of the world by constantly trying to make sense of how the world worked. One of such philosophers was Plato who was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of […]

Managing Self is the best life management – Part 1

Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari We all have a tendency to think that change means that we need to change our outer environment, like our workplace or relationships, in order to be happier in life. However, life flows from inside out. Therefore we need to change our inner environment first. The outer is but the manifestation of the […]

How Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ Can Guide You Through This Pandemic

In 1945, within months of his liberation from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Viktor Frankl (who was earlier a psychologist practicing in Vienna) wrote the book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’. The book not only explored the horrors and suffering that Frankl endured in the camps but majorly, it wanted to answer the question: what […]

A meditator in his vulnerability accepts existence in totality

Let me put it in this way : if you are vulnerable, it means you are ready to live in insecurity. Deep downs it means you are ready even to die. You will not resist, you will not oppose, you will not stand in the way. If death comes, there will be no resistance. You will simply allow it to happen. You accept existence it its totality. Then how can you feel it as death?