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If physical stretching exercises and breathing techniques are what you think of when you hear the word “Yoga”, then you have been a target of the “yoga industrial complex”. Moreover, if you think of Yoga as “union” of some sort, like the union of the individual soul with the universal... [Read More]

Rgveda says that the truth is one, but the wise call it by different names. Jain philosophy takes it a few steps further to say that the truth doesn’t just have different names, but also has different aspects to it. There are so many ways to look at the truth,... [Read More]

Have you ever wondered how our physical bodies can produce the non-physical phenomenon we call the mind? Even if you believe in a non-physical soul or consciousness, you still have to ask: What is the relationship between our physical body and our immaterial soul? How do they interact? How does... [Read More]

In the previous post on Carvaka Darshan, we looked at the arguments they used to reject inference as a valid source of knowledge. They consider only perception as a means to know the truth, grounding their philosophy in perceptual empiricism. [Read More]

In the broadest sense, ethics can be defined as the philosophical study of morality. It seeks to answer fundamental questions like: What is the nature of good and bad? What kind of person ought I to be? And, is morality objective or relative? [Read More]