When I do not have control over how my brain gets shaped in the womb, what genes are passed on … More
Category: Free Will
Luck Swallows Everything (on Free Will, or rather the lack of it)
This article, by Galen Strawson of Oxford University, appeared in the Times Literary Supplement(link is external) on June 26, 1998, and is … More
“Thank You So Much”? Now, Wait a Minute!
A friend messaged on WhatsApp, “Thank you so much” (see screenshot at the end). I replied to him with these … More
“If you want to make God laugh, tell Him about your plans.”
Claude, comment: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him about your plans.” The aphorism’s charm depends on a … More
Conversation with a Cousin on Doership and Destiny
Karma’s Power Ends the Moment You See You as the Ego Are Not The Doer – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
My Final Hurrah!
Just published on Amazon my 20th book (I hope this will be my last book) “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation … More
Quit
“Life is not a battle worth fighting. Quit.” The word is a deliberate stumbling block. What is to be given up is not the body or the life, but the fighter — the ego whose founding myth is that life is a war to be won. Camus answered the question of life’s worth with revolt; Advaita takes the path he never considered: neither suicide nor defiance, but the dissolution of the one who asks. Quit the way a fist quits clenching. The battle is optional because the soldier is fictional. What remains is life itself — neither fought nor fled.
Is Everything Predestined?
Don’t Worry About the Future — It is Already Fixed
Here is the email I wrote to my younger sister Kavitha just now, who is travelling with her family in … More