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Observer = Observed

On my morning walk in the park today, I had this very surreal knowing that my mind was I was reduced to a mere witness of this whole show. Yet, oddly, it did not feel like a reduction. It felt like the mind was dipping into “me” to construct both the world and the experiencer […]

On Memory

Memory is whatever the mind brings up. Hypothetically, the mind can create random images, thoughts, and bodily sensations that feel like memories. Even when the body-mind system is working perfectly, memory is always at the mercy of whatever it pulls up in the moment. It’s possi…

māyā – ಮಾಯಾ – माया

The term māyā is often translated as “illusion”—a powerful force that makes the dualistic world appear real, even though only the non-dual Brahman truly exists. However, I prefer to interpret māyā not as “illusion” but as “disappearance” or “vanishing” (in its street-Kannada sen…