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'Find your one true purpose' has become a quiet source of dread. Existentialism offers a release: there is no purpose waiting to be discovered — you are the one who makes it, again and again.
Customs that horrify one society are sacred in another. Is morality universal, or just local custom? The relativism debate is ancient — and the honest answer is messier than either side admits.
Many Indians carry a quiet guilt that wanting money makes them less spiritual. But the tradition itself lists artha — wealth and security — as one of the four legitimate aims of a human life.
'India was always religious' is half the story. Materialist, god-denying schools like Charvaka were born here, argued openly for centuries, and made doubt as Indian as devotion.
We say 'wash away your paap' as if God keeps a ledger you can pay off. But papa and punya aren't a debt to a deity — they're the natural result of what you do: physics, not a courtroom.
'I tried meditating but couldn't stop thinking' is the most common reason people quit — and it rests on a myth. Stopping thought was never the goal. Noticing it, without getting dragged along, is.
Every scam, every cruelty, and someone sighs 'Kaliyug aa gaya'. But the yuga idea is a vast cosmic clock, not a verdict on the news — and it turns in a circle, not a straight line down.
'Life is suffering' is Buddhism's most quoted line — and its most mistranslated. The word the Buddha used, dukkha, is closer to a wheel that won't sit true: restless unsatisfactoriness, not despair.
