My Journey into Sanatana Dharma

So one of the things that you'll have to understand about the modern world is we are surrounded by dopamine triggers. It literally is impossible, almost impossible, to be not surrounded by dopamine triggers and triggers of sexuality, triggers of cravings, triggers for food, triggers for adventure, whatever you're into. But that also has brought about a problem on the inverse. Everyone has access to it, and we are also seeing absolute, this modern world, because of this access and freedom and individuality, we are also seeing situations where everyone is also extremely unhappy and dissatisfied, more so than ever. And dissatisfaction for the discerning mind who understands monkhood or being a monk is the perfect catalyst for one to consider monkhood. Dissatisfaction, in fact, something that, thanks to the modern world, there is no way of quenching our thirst. There is no end to the amount of food and the variety of food, and there is no end to the kind of women that we can at lea...

I have been tormented by the problem of evil for a long time in philosophy. In 2012 something happened in India that has tormented my mind my heart and my soul beyond something that I ever thought something could.  And here is where I have landed thus far on this topic, and as the title goes this is all I've got,  You see, if you are talking about any religion with a personal God, that is Islam, Christianity, Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, Ganapatyam, Shauryam, pick what you want. Any religion which says there is a personal God, an all-knowing God, all-loving God, a God who is full of love, if that entity was always watching, then evil, and the kind of evil I'm talking about is the kind of evil that happened in December of 2012 to that girl, or any kind of other evil that others can point to, which I cannot even, my brain just shuts down and doesn't want to process it, just wants to explode, cannot happen, should not, by definition, happen. The definition of that personal...

Let me tell you an inspiring story about Kanchi Maha Swamy demonstrating profound self-control (indriya nigraha) after realizing his tongue had developed a liking for a specific dish, and undertaking penance for it. ​During the early days after ascending the peetham (spiritual seat), the Maha Swamy was receiving his daily bhiksha (alms). The cook who prepared the food served him, and after eating, the cook offered his respects. The Swamy remarked, "The dal is very delicious, what dal is it?" The cook replied, "It is thotakura pappu (amaranth leaves dal)." ​ The Swamy said, "Oh, it's good." The next day, the cook made amaranth dal again, and the Swamy praised it once more. On the third day, the cook served the same dal again. ​After eating, the Swamy asked, "You are making amaranth dal every day. Where is this amaranth coming from?" The cook explained, "Since you said the amaranth dal was good, visitors and devotees coming to th...

I watched hundreds of hours of debate between athiests and Christians and Muslims and every time atheist has any question everything reverts back to the secular question of does God exist how is there a world without a supreme being how is there you know what is right and wrong without the supreme being existing that's a secular question that's not the question being debated and they always throw away from the original question the question is about the truth and the problems with the specific religion that they are questioning they became atheist because of the way the many things that these religions have done to humanity over the last two millennia  And instead of asking those problematic issues with the religions they hide behind the secular question about or is there a God fine maybe there is one there is not one that's not the question that the debate about the question and the debate is about the the history of what is being claimed that the religion is and what actu...

For time and memorial humanity has been asking this question and so are you and the reason you're watching this video or this blog is because you want to know the answer but the question is how long after this video do you persist to keep asking this question how much does it bother you how much research have you done on this topic what have you explored beyond what you already know what have you read have you read all the perspectives in the world to ask this question have you even wondered about the nature of reality have you wondered about the nature of God and if the claims made by the major religion that you subscribe to actually answer the questions that are important that difficult do you feel like you have all the answers or is the answer it's true because it's in the book if you don't put in the effort to find out about the ultimate reality the ultimate God you know the sustainer of the universe and this is a passing entertainment note then you don't deserv...

 The second habit of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. And the book written by Simon Sinek starts with the "why". Are essentially saying the same thing. That anything worthwhile in this world that has to sustain has to first understand why we are doing what we are doing. So starting with the end in the mind basically just means to understand what it is that we are trying to achieve. And the Indian Vedic Society starts with that first question to answer. And I bet every religion starts with that. Everybody understood that death is the only reality. That's the end, as far as we can tell. And then we have our own theories that are competing with each other about what happened after the fact. Of course, in the modern world where there are no beliefs anymore and humanity has for the most part started to behave like there is absolutely guaranteed nothing after death. Is the foundational reason for most common social problems. The biggest of them being the modern problem ...