Tag: Writing

The Sacred Withdrawal: When Spiritual Sadhana Becomes Your Raison d’être


What looks like retreat to the world is often the most courageous advance inward. In this deeply personal reflection, I address a well-meaning piece of advice — that I shouldn’t “shut my door” simply because someone hurt me. But my withdrawal from worldly engagement is neither sudden nor born of wounded pride. It is the culmination of a 50-year spiritual quest, a decision quietly forming since December 2021, now firmly made. Drawing on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, I explore how most of us mistake the shadows of the material world for ultimate reality — and how spiritual sadhana is the very act of breaking free from those chains. As Rousseau reminds us, man is born free, yet lives everywhere in bondage. True freedom isn’t found in the world’s noise; it is discovered in the sunlit stillness beyond the cave. This is not an escape. This is a homecoming.

“Mat Kar Maya Ko Ahankar” — Kabir’s Timeless Reminder That Everything Becomes Dust


What does a swaying elephant, a melting dew drop, and an extinguished lamp have in common? They’re all metaphors Kabir Café uses in Matkar Maya Ko Ahankar to strip away our illusions about wealth, power, and the human body. Rooted in Sant Kabir’s 15th-century Bhakti philosophy, this folk-fusion gem asks a razor-sharp question: why take pride in things that a single gust of wind can destroy? From mighty kings to grieving families, nothing escapes impermanence. Yet the song doesn’t leave you in despair — it points toward the Guru’s grace as the only real liberation. Ancient wisdom. Modern soul.

Robert Frost: The Most Misread Poet in America


He is buried beneath a leaning birch tree in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Vermont. The epitaph on his gravestone … More