Preparing the Mind for Self-Inquiry - Part I

Preparing the Mind for Self-Inquiry - Part I

You know that cycle, right? Happy one moment, stressed the next, then relieved, then anxious again. Most of us spend our entire lives shifting burdens from one hand to the other, mistaking temporary relief for genuine peace.What if there's a way to break this cycle entirely? For over 2,500 years, Vedanta has offered a radical answer: the end of suffering isn't found in managing your circumstances better, but in discovering who you truly are.

Understanding Sankalpa

Understanding Sankalpa

Let's start with the word itself. Sankalpa comes from two Sanskrit roots: sam and kalp. Together, they mean "to bring together, to form, or to arrange."

But it goes deeper than that. In the Bhagavad Gita, Sankalpa is described as "the mind arranging reality into a pattern through subtle volition." Read that again. It's not just about setting a goal or forming a habit. It's about becoming the fundamental organizing principle of your own consciousness.

Integrating Mindfulness into a Unified Life

Integrating Mindfulness into a Unified Life

Why we fracture life into silos like "wordly" and "spiritual." This segregation creates a deep distortion, limiting our time and ability to find genuine fulfillment. True spiritual living means uniting these fragments. We must embrace mindfulness as the essential quality of consciousness that allows us to integrate our values, our behavior, and our breath into one complete, conscious experience.

Total Well-being

Total Well-being

Total well-being rests on seven interconnected pillars—nutrition, movement, sleep, stillness, emotional balance, human connection, and joy. Each supports the others to create harmony between body, mind, and spirit. By nurturing all seven, we cultivate resilience, clarity, and fulfillment, transforming health from a goal into a conscious way of living.

The Quest for a Positive Mind

The Quest for a Positive Mind

A positive mind is not about ignoring problems but building inner strength to face them calmly. Through physical health, emotional control, purposeful living, and self-reflection, one raises their baseline happiness. True positivity emerges from self-mastery—choosing steadiness, awareness, and dignity over impulse, and finding lasting peace from within.

Unlimited Energy

Unlimited Energy

In today’s world, feeling tired has almost become normal. Many people wake up fresh but lose energy by afternoon, and some feel most awake only late at night. This lack of steady energy affects not just our work, but also our mood, focus, and ability to enjoy life.

Sustaining energy is not about quick fixes or caffeine. It’s about building the right foundation — through food, movement, sleep, and emotional balance. When these four come together in harmony, the body supports us with consistent energy through the day.

Journey of Yoga

Journey of Yoga

The Journey of Yoga From rustic forest hermitages to downtown Yoga Studios

In some of the early texts, the yogis that are mentioned are not necessarily the clean-living, health-conscious and physically toned practitioners we would recognize by that word today. The holy itinerants who practised yoga, generally known as sadhus, seem to have been raggle-taggle gypsies who wandered the earth freely, unshackled by convention and in pursuit of spiritual ecstasy, which they would get wherever they could find it.