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Liberation (Mokṣa vs. Unborn Realization)

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Vajragoni
  1. Introduction: The Soteriological Question

Every philosophy, every spiritual path, carries within it the implicit question: What is all of this for? Why inquire into the deepest recesses of mind? Why wrestle with metaphysics, with paradox, with negations that strip away the scaffolding of self and world? Why meditate, why practice, why endure the relentless peeling back of everything that once seemed secure? read more

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The Sacred Doctrine of Brahman and Absolute Nothingness in Advaita Vedānta (Part Two)

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Vajragoni
  1. The Doctrine of Māyā: The World as Appearance

If Brahman is the Absolute, unchanging and eternal, how do we account for the world of multiplicity, change, and suffering? Advaita answers with one of its most profound and often misunderstood doctrines: Māyā. read more

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The Practical Path: From Ignorance to Realization

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Vajragoni

Advaita never tires of repeating: liberation is not the acquisition of something new, but the removal of ignorance (avidyā). The Self is already Brahman, but through misidentification, we imagine ourselves to be the body, the senses, the mind. Liberation (mokṣa) is nothing other than the unveiling of what has always been the case. read more

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Brahman and Absolute Nothingness in Advaita

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Vajragoni

The Opening Invocation of Brahman

To speak of Brahman is already to fall short. In the Advaita Vedānta tradition, Brahman is the infinite, eternal, unchanging reality that underlies and transcends all phenomena. The Upaniṣads describe it not as an object of thought, not as something to be grasped through senses or concepts, but as pure being-consciousness-bliss (sat–cit–ānanda). Yet even these words are provisional; the sages warn that Brahman is beyond predicate, beyond category, beyond affirmation, and even beyond negation. read more

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Karma and Rebirth

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Vajragoni

This January series will be a systematic study on Karma and Rebirth. We will consider the topic from many different perspectives, essentially broken down in the following schemata: read more

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