December 22, 2024
Today is the Winter Solstice—which, for those of us living in the Northern hemisphere, marks the shortest of days and, therefore, the darkest of...
December 10, 2024
One of the greatest challenges facing seekers of liberation is the fact the senses are, by nature, extroverted; focused outwardly upon the world of...
July 22, 2024
John:I hope you have been keeping well. This time my question is on the degree of purity and the exaggeration of enlightenment even in...
July 17, 2024
It’s said that when Adi Shankara was only eight years old, he met the sage Govindapada, who would later become his guru. Govindapada asked...
June 23, 2024
“The most enlightening part of what John said on Sunday, which I hadn’t fully understood before—but now grasp thanks to the transcript—is the following:...
February 29, 2024
Questioner:I look at the world around me and am witnessing a very chaotic world. With wars, corruption, pandemics and it seems to be on...
February 28, 2024
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.” John Milton The purpose...
December 21, 2023
Happy Solstice! I’m writing this on the morning of the Winter Solstice 2023 and have been reflecting on the way human beings have, throughout...
July 20, 2023
Questioner:Does Prayer work in this empirical world? I understand (intellectually) that at an absolute level there is nobody praying to no one. Rory: Vedanta encourages...
July 20, 2023
Questioner: I have a question. If the cause of the physical universe and all its laws are the result of Ishvara what do you do...
