Despite tremendous advancement, our modern lives are rife with suffering, pain, disease and dissatisfaction. Often life is comfortable but lacks meaning and purpose. We barely understand its whys or hows. The Yogic Mutant decodes all such existential questions while leading us to our ultimate human destiny. Our collective destiny, which is also a human impulse, one we cannot deny. It is our evolutionary impulse to mutate into a higher specie, a trans-human, an ultra-human. Without the help of any external crutches.
Once, long ago, when I was young, fresh and unspoiled, I wanted to be a model child. Please my parents, be a source of pride and joy to them. They were the reference for my naïve philosophy of life. Then, childhood idealism dissolved into angry adolescence. I rebelled to assert my individuality, and the fight itself became my new anchor.
read moreFree-will takes the title of being the most contentious, unsettled topic of philosophical debate ever. Be it Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius or the armchair philosophers of your weekend drinking circle; everyone, intellectual and commoner alike, has thought about free-will. Casual or deep, informed or uninformed, the arguments on free-will never end.
read moreHinduism’s caste system is a tragedy of Greek proportions, one which is reviled across the world and rightly so. As the modern Hindu, intellectual and layman alike knows it, society was once divided into five castes: the Brahmins (priests), the Kshatriyas (kings), Vaishyas (businessmen), Shudras (labourers), and the Malecchas (Untouchables).
read moreYoga is the highest union, the highest that can ever be. Union with what, you may ask? Union with what we have always desired, without realizing. Imagine that you were standing under an exquisite, starry sky, but you didn’t know. You can’t see it. It is invisible because an ugly, thick ceiling blocks your view.
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