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“Can’t Buy Me Love” meets the Yoga Sutras. If money doesn’t buy happiness, why do we keep chasing it? The three gunas explain the trap—and the way out.

I once learned a hard lesson about the word “girls.” Years later, the stakes feel much higher. Yoga philosophy has a name for manipulative speech—and a clear standard for how to speak truthfully.

My body has crossed into old age—but I don’t feel old. Yoga has a simple explanation for that. The Gita’s teaching on consciousness, aging, and death reframes what’s actually changing—and what isn’t.

I carried Dune on the subway; “fear is the mind-killer” never left me. The Gita opens with a warrior frozen by fear—and a teacher who doesn’t dismiss it. Here’s how Arjuna’s shift turns fear into steadiness.

The Bhagavad Gita distinguishes being angry from using anger. How to nest anger in spiritual consciousness so it serves protection, justice, and steady mind. Here’s how to use anger without being used by it.

Ever heard of “suzerainty”? Think leadership that protects people without grabbing their land or running their lives. Yoga’s model—told through kings like Prthu—shows power used to serve, not to dominate. Here’s how that idea could guide us now.

A Sanskrit phrase—duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam—sent me back to time itself. What the Gita, a crescent moon, and a quiet hospice room taught me about endings and meaning. Plus the small vow I’m making for the new year.

Candles, trees, music—and chakra questions. Are chakras real, symbolic, or useful? Here’s a clear, text-rooted tour of what the yoga tradition says and simple ways to work with them now.

Resistance stops the harm; it doesn’t set the horizon. What comes after “no”? Here’s how Dharmic Personalism—rooted in yoga—rebuilds belonging, institutions, and shared prosperity so extremism can’t regrow.

If resistance only pulls weeds, the roots remain. Yoga names the root—avidyā—and cultivates a different ecology: Dharmic Personalism. Here’s a preview of what that garden could grow.