In this blog, I share some of my philosophical writings and reflections on various issues concerning human society, human nature, the natural sciences, and other questions spanning the past, present, and future. As of now, I have no formal academic training in philosophy; however, I have been self-taught in Indian philosophy since my pre-middle school days. I build my ideas from scratch, grounding them in observation, reflection, contemplation and awareness. I am currently working on increasing my readings on Greek and Western philosophy.
My ideas are fairly simple: I analyze, reveal, and critique the prevailing tendencies of materialism, physicalism, objectification, and reductionism in metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, ethics, and logic. I find myself closer to the Indian philosophy of Yogācāra, Pratyabhijña, Śūnyavāda, and Advaita Vedānta, while remaining highly sympathetic to other schools such as Yoga, Sāṅkhya, early Buddhist thoughts, Nyāya, and Vaiśeṣika, in all of which I perceive a unifying thread. In western tradition, I am guardedly sympathetic to idealist philosophers.
Instead of kneeling before the creed of reduction, before the greed of senses, before the temptation to defend temptations using constructed, borrowed, and internalized logic, philosophy, argument, and resistance; instead of yielding to the desire to use philosophy, art, and logic as a justification of what one perceives oneself to be, of what one wants based on what one thinks happiness is; instead of succumbing to the tendency to dilute the concentrated mind, devotion, and sanctity; instead of pursuing the tendency to change the world merely for change’s sake; instead of indulging in the urge to reduce, objectify, materialize, and thus degenerate, I raise my pen for a vision wherein non-reduced consciousness, inwardness, and the ineffable play the highest role; for giving company and clarity to those who remain connected to roots, truth, and purpose; for giving soil to them in whom the seed of sanity, sanctity, and serenity still lies; for the expression of my discomfort and suffocation amidst the modern zoo, the great cage in which bears dance for free food, where beings barter their silence for noise, their essence for spectacle, and their true freedom for the coin of convenience (a deluded freedom), and for the love of my absolute dependence upon every particle in the cosmos.
My ideas are fairly simple: I analyze, reveal, and critique the prevailing tendencies of materialism, physicalism, objectification, and reductionism in metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, ethics, and logic. I find myself closer to the Indian philosophy of Yogācāra, Pratyabhijña, Śūnyavāda, and Advaita Vedānta, while remaining highly sympathetic to other schools such as Yoga, Sāṅkhya, early Buddhist thoughts, Nyāya, and Vaiśeṣika, in all of which I perceive a unifying thread. In western tradition, I am guardedly sympathetic to idealist philosophers.
Instead of kneeling before the creed of reduction, before the greed of senses, before the temptation to defend temptations using constructed, borrowed, and internalized logic, philosophy, argument, and resistance; instead of yielding to the desire to use philosophy, art, and logic as a justification of what one perceives oneself to be, of what one wants based on what one thinks happiness is; instead of succumbing to the tendency to dilute the concentrated mind, devotion, and sanctity; instead of pursuing the tendency to change the world merely for change’s sake; instead of indulging in the urge to reduce, objectify, materialize, and thus degenerate, I raise my pen for a vision wherein non-reduced consciousness, inwardness, and the ineffable play the highest role; for giving company and clarity to those who remain connected to roots, truth, and purpose; for giving soil to them in whom the seed of sanity, sanctity, and serenity still lies; for the expression of my discomfort and suffocation amidst the modern zoo, the great cage in which bears dance for free food, where beings barter their silence for noise, their essence for spectacle, and their true freedom for the coin of convenience (a deluded freedom), and for the love of my absolute dependence upon every particle in the cosmos.