Vikalp is two.
Nirvikalp is one.
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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Nāsadīya Sūktam & the Mystery of the Origin of the Universe
The Nāsadīya Sūktam explores the origin of the universe and goes beyond the modern Big Bang theory by addressing what existed before creation — and how Brahman, through Maya, becomes the world we know.
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Unique Qualities of Hindu Dharma
There is neither one central authority nor one central scripture in Hinduism — a breadth that gives it an accommodating outlook toward life, and toward every other path of worship.
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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 mining 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.