People often get led down the garden path by fake gurus due to an individuals naivete and innocence. A fake guru is clever at manipulating such people for their own benefit and influence. So, to avoid this from happening, it is important to have a good BS detector and a template for measuring a guru. [...]

Why do we suffer as an individual when we are connected to the ultimate source of life? The paradox of suffering is an important revelation a spiritual aspirant must realize if one is to understand the true nature of reality. In this episode of The Sacred Word, I will explain an important verse from the [...]

In this podcast, we will explain Lao Tzu’s support of freedom of speech and condemnation of censorship. This is the seventy-second episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter seventy-two of the Tao Te Ching to give [...]

In this podcast, we will explain why ignorance is a sickness destroying humanity. This is the seventy-first episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter seventy-one of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on [...]

What is the best version of the Bhagavad Gita? What is the most authentic version? There are so many translations in numerous languages, and so it is hard for a sincere spiritual aspirant to choose. In this episode of Enlightenment Today, I will explain the best version in English of the Bhagavad Gita that explores [...]

What happens when the identity merges with the Ultimate? This is a frightening proposition for our egos but it is a necessary process on the spiritual path to overcome our individual and collective hypnosis. In this episode of The Sacred Word, I will explain an important verse from the Ashtavakra Gita, a text one is [...]

Swami Nikhilananda was one the greatest gurus that you’ve never heard of. He was an esteemed spiritual teacher, prolific writer and translator, and also one of the greatest exponents of Advaita Vedanta and other schools of Sanatana Dharma that has ever lived. Once you dive into the immense magnitude of Swamiji’s work, it is hard [...]

The ancient text of the Tao Te Ching deals with what is permanent within us, an unfathomable source beyond heaven and earth. The Tao Te Ching takes us far beyond the social, cultural, religious, and biological factors that are the main concern of modern psychology. It helps us see how the fundamental forces of the [...]

There is a paradoxical truth at the core of our body, mind, and ego that we encounter on the spiritual path. This is a truth many hard to accept and so they find it hard to progress further than this paradox. In this episode of The Sacred Word, I will explain an important verse from [...]

In this podcast, we will explain the power of loneliness. This is the seventieth episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter seventy of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on the meaning of [...]

People have so many opinions about how the world should be, what their beliefs are, and it’s all based on a subjective viewpoint—one’s own conditioning. And this is what eclipses the Tao, the presence of the Tao within you, because you’ve got all of these opinions about how the world should be. Let go and [...]

What is divine grace, and how do you receive it? Many religions refer to the grace of God, but in no other tradition do they explore divine grace to its nth degree than Sanatana Dharma. In this episode of Enlightenment Today, I will explain the Sanskrit word Kripa and what that word means in relation [...]

What is the nature of your identity? Do you know your original nature before your identity was formed? In a world excessively focused on being a unique identity, the great Eastern spiritual traditions have a different take on what the identity is and instead explain why the identity itself serves as a blockage to God-realization.

The myth of heaven and hell as we know it is exposed in the highest teachings in the world by the great sages of antiquity. This teaching is a revelation many will find it hard to accept and ultimate comprehend, but nevertheless, it is a necessary recognition on the spiritual path to enlightenment. In this [...]

In this podcast, we will explain Taoism’s art of effortless combat. This is the sixty-ninth episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter sixty-nine of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on the meaning [...]

What does it mean to be spiritually strong in a world that wants you to be weak and dependent? Spiritual strength is often scorned by many people in the modern world who misunderstand what it means to be strong. Modern society and culture propagate the false view that strength is weakness and weakness is strength. [...]

Do you get offended if someone doesn’t like you? Or can you like someone even if they hate you? Learning to love people who hate you is one of the most difficult realizations any spiritual aspirant can attain. The challenge of truly embracing unconditional love is that it is often just lip service rather than [...]

In this podcast, we will explain Taoism’s war strategy. This is the sixty-eighth episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter sixty-eight of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on the meaning of this [...]