Vikalp is Dual.
Nirvikalp is Non-Dual.
The Blog of an Everyday Man's Journey Into Advaita — reflections on the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the recognition that all the world within the senses, and beyond them, is one God alone.
Beyond the pairs of opposites
Vikalp is the mind's oldest habit — the thought that splits one seamless world into this and that, self and other, seen and unseen. Nirvikalp is simply what remains when that splitting stops: the recognition that everything reachable by the five senses, and everything beyond their reach, is one and the same reality, wearing ten thousand names. These pages are one householder's plain-spoken record of that inquiry — old hymns, a little borrowed wisdom, and no claim at all to mastery.
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What Continues After Death?
When someone dies, it is very common for the people to say “may his/ her Soul rest in peace”. It is assumed that the Soul is something which can pass through different stages of change. But is it the fact? The article tries to examine the same.
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Photographs from journeys to Amarkantak, Kedarnath and beyond — the same search for the One, taken one temple at a time.
Written by Pushkar
A retired mechanical engineer, lifelong seeker, and grandfather who has spent sixty years around the daily worship his own parents began — and a good part of the years since, reading Shankaracharya, Ramana Maharshi and the Gita. This blog exists for one reason: to pass a little of that inheritance on to a younger generation growing distant from it.