The journey from Vedas to Advait Vedānta is a journey of evolved human consciousness. This highest state of consciousness in a man is Shivattva (What is Shivattva is Ramattva, and what is Ramattva is Krishnattva). As a piece of life, as a body, it is a certain amount of earth, water, air, fire, and ether or ākāśa. And there is a fundamental intelligence that puts all these things together in a particular way to make life out of it. There is a profound and unimaginable level of intelligence that can make simple things like air into life. This intelligence that makes life happen is “consciousness.” What is Not consciousness is Wakefulness, Self-consciousness, and Alertness. Consciousness is the very basis of creation. It is boundless in its nature (body, psychological space, emotional space and energy space all have limited boundaries). 

The realization of the Ātman, or Atmajñāna, is Sanātana Dharma’s highest possible Ādhyātmika attainment – with Atmajñāna comes the decisive Vedāntic realization that Ātman and Brahman is one single consciousness. The true Ādhyātmika life of Sanātana Dharma is integral and practical, not idealistic or escapist. Sanātana Dharma, as a darśhana, has always been dynamic and evolutionary; there are no regulating body for the Dharma deciding on the heresies, and blasphemies etc. (These words / practices don’t find any mention in any of the dharmic texts) Being Ādhyātmika, a practicing Sanātani must also be a practicing yogi, one whose life is an unbroken pursuit of the one Self in all. Wherever and whenever the Yogi has been eclipsed by the priest or the scholar, Sanātana Dharma has degenerated into ritual and dogma.  

History is not just about the past—it is also a mirror for the present. Agnitandav of 1948 recounts a chapter of India’s history that many would prefer to forget: the wave of violence that engulfed Brahmin families in Maharashtra following Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. The events may be over seven decades old, but their lessons remain deeply relevant in today’s India, where caste tensions, political manipulation, and social divides still simmer. Remembering 1948 is not about reopening wounds—it is about ensuring that such wounds are never inflicted again.

Sanātana Dharma reflects a certain darśhana around Jñāna (Jñāna is the realization by direct cognition that in this changing universe there is nothing but Chaitanya that is consciousness, that is of the form of the seer and the seen, pervading all things, that is the same in all) and Bodhā (consciousness). All of Sanātana darśhana moves towards the dissolution of duality, and what dissolves is not duality but the ‘perception’ of duality. Sanātana darśhana is not monistic but is based on oneness of being in and through all differentiations and diversities, where none of the differentiation and diversity is lost in the oneness. The oneness of Sanātana Dharma is not mathematical but ontological, a spiritual experience and realization of Tad Ekam (That One). 

ndia’s democratic journey is often celebrated for its diversity, vibrancy, and resilience. Yet beneath the surface of elections, campaigns, and policy debates lies a persistent reality: caste continues to shape politics. Even decades after independence, the echoes of caste-based mobilization, favouritism, and rivalry influence how communities vote, how leaders are chosen, and how development reaches—or bypasses—certain groups.

Reasonable discussion among the educated classes in India seems to be veering around to the inevitability of a break-up of Pakistan within the next three to five years. The exact time does not matter, and what is more meaningful is that a country that was set up as a client of the West, has since transformed itself as a rentier state, a garrison for hire, a cricket team with a country attached, an army with a country attached, a non-country, a collapsed state, a Muslim seminary, a poverty wracked land with a ruined riverine system that was the grain bowl of a country that was ahead of India in most economic indicators till 2000.

Why I Wrote Agnitandav of 1948

I grew up listening to fragments of memories of riots of 1948. But they were often spoken in hushed tones, as if wrapped in shame or fear. Writing this book became my way of giving voice to those silences, so that the next generation does not inherit only shadows or false narrative where history should have stood. Couple of years ago, my father and I discussed writing about these events. We started compiling such events from various places and families. Thus the first book (in Marathi) got published. Over the period, we got more information which I included in this English edition for broader audience.

“Unravelling Sanātana Bharat” – Bharat’s samskriti, and Sanskrit

Sanskrit language has been the unifying substrate of our dharmic samskriti and has profoundly shaped it. Dharma and Sanskrit are deeply intertwined. Without doubt, it is an understanding of Sanskrit, its inherent harmony and generative powers that enables dharma to flower. 

The non-translatable nature of Sanskrit and its deep meanings are compromised by the cultural digestion of dharma into the West through the inadequate translation of vocabulary. In the course of this digestion, crucial distinctions and understandings are lost, important direct experiences of the Rishis sidelined, and the most fertile, productive and visionary dimension of dharma eradicated and relegated to antiquity. Here are few examples demonstrating the non-translatability of the Sanskrit expressions, their commonly used English equivalents that are compared, and their limitations exposed: 

Ātman is not soul 

“Unravelling Sanātana Bharat” – The lifeline of samskritic Bharat 

The book, “Unravelling Sanātana Bharat” by Arun Ganesh and Dr. Ankit Shah acknowledges the urge to transform Bharat in the next 25-year timeframe, fulcrumed on almost 25,000 years of its samskriti, underpinned by dharmic principles, which are sanātana (eternal, and not static, for their ability to renew themselves). This is the reason, according to Sri Aurobindo, “Sanātana Dharma is life itself; it is thing that has not so much to be believed as lived”. 

Samskriti means to live life in an equanimous way - to move with equanimity, ease and exuberance, allowing the human system to attain its peak and let human beings reach their fullest capabilities, with an ability to see things as they are. ‘Samskriti’ represents an essence whose antiquity is older than the legend. The aim of this essence is to allow human mechanism to grow to its fullest potential. Samskriti is not just confined to the material world and includes the pursuit of a higher purpose. Sanātana Dharma samskriti is an inseparable part of the integrally unified Dharma. Aesthetic and sensual pursuits in samskriti are thus under this framework, differing from ‘culture’, which is ill-defined in comparison, devoid of any unified or singular metaphysical foundation.

 गाँव जैसा सादगीपूर्ण जीवन: स्वास्थ्य, समृद्धि और प्राकृतिक खुशहाली की अनमोल सीख

आज की ज़िन्दगी में जहाँ टेक्नोलॉजी और शहरीकरण ने हमारी सुविधाएँ बढ़ा दी हैं, वहीं हमने वह सादगी, स्वच्छता और संतुलन खो दिया है, जो हमारे पूर्वजों की जीवनशैली का मूलाधार था। तेज़ रफ्तार जिंदगी ने हमें प्लास्टिक के बर्तन, तैलीय और प्रोसेस्ड भोजन, रासायनिक उत्पाद और अपारगर प्राकृतिक संसाधनों का अंधाधुंध उपयोग अपनाने पर मजबूर कर दिया है।

लेकिन क्या हम जानते हैं – इन आधुनिक उत्पादों का हमारे स्वास्थ्य और पर्यावरण पर क्या प्रभाव पड़ता है?

वास्तव में, आज के समय में बीमारियाँ तेजी से बढ़ रही हैं – पाचन से जुड़ी समस्याएँ, त्वचा संबंधी विकार, मानसिक तनाव, मोटापा, डायबिटीज और कैंसर जैसी गंभीर बीमारियाँ। इन समस्याओं का एक बड़ा कारण है – रासायनिक और अस्वस्थ जीवनशैली।

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आज की तेज़ रफ़्तार ज़िंदगी में हम अक्सर उन चीज़ों को चुन लेते हैं जो तुरंत उपलब्ध हों, लेकिन उनका असर हमारे स्वास्थ्य और पर्यावरण पर कितना बुरा पड़ता है, यह हम अनदेखा कर देते हैं। केमिकल से भरे स्किनकेयर, प्लास्टिक से बनी रोज़मर्रा की वस्तुएँ और मशीनों से निकले मिलावटी खाद्य पदार्थ धीरे-धीरे हमारी ज़िंदगी और प्रकृति दोनों को नुकसान पहुँचा रहे हैं।

इसी स्थिति को देखते हुए भारत में एक ऐसा ऑनलाइन मंच उभरा है, जो न सिर्फ़ eco-friendly और प्राकृतिक उत्पादों को आगे बढ़ाता है, बल्कि स्वदेशी कारीगरों, किसानों और उद्यमियों को भी मज़बूत बनाता है। यह मंच हमें एक विकल्प देता है—स्वस्थ जीवन और टिकाऊ पर्यावरण का।