YOU WONT BELIEVE: Shankara - You Need To See This

Somewhere in the long history of Indian philosophical debate, a rule emerged that most modern arguers would find quietly humiliating. Before you stated your own position, you had to state your opponent's, fully, charitably, in its strongest form, without caricature. Only then were you permitted to respond. The tradition called…

Every argument about which Hindu practice must be preserved and which may be reformed eventually arrives at the same question: who decided this rule, and by what authority? The tradition itself built the answer into its own architecture, through a distinction that is more than scholarly, it is structural. Shruti…

The road you keep not takingYou have probably driven the coastal highway at least once. Murudeshwar, Gokarna, Murdeshwar, the beach towns string together so easily that the inland turn-off barely registers. There is a signboard somewhere past Bhatkal that points toward Kollur. Most cars do not slow down for it.…

Before creation, before time and space, what could have existed? Hindu philosophical traditions describe Sadashiva as a supreme, formless reality beyond ordinary ideas of beginning and end. In Shaiva traditions, Sadashiva is associated with the highest consciousness from which the processes of creation, preservation, dissolution, concealment and grace are understood.…