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Waking from the Night Within

  The states of the mind, the light in the gap between them, and the grace of the Mother who calls us home Introduction Waking, dreaming and deep sleep are all states, and none of them is what we are. A state comes and goes; whatever comes and goes cannot be the Self. The Self is the awareness in which all three appear and disappear. Deep sleep teaches this best. Every night the world, the body and even the sense of “I” vanish completely. Yet in the morning we say, “I slept well.” Someone was there to know it. But deep sleep is not freedom. In sleep, awareness is veiled, not recognized. Our cravings and tendencies have not dissolved; they only lie dormant, like seeds in winter soil, which is why we wake up as the same person with the same desires. The Tripura Rahasya draws exactly this line: both sleep and samādhi are free of objects, but one is ignorance and the other is awareness. Why do we wake up at all? Here the teaching offers a startling insight. The mind knows itself only ...
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Spirit of Himalaya: The Story of a Truth Seeker — A Journey Beyond the Self

  Purchase the book on Amazon What does it mean to seek the Truth? Is it something we must discover in the mountains, in the teachings of a Guru, or in the silent depths of our own consciousness? There are books that give us knowledge, books that entertain us, and books that leave us with questions we cannot easily put aside. Spirit of Himalaya: The Story of a Truth Seeker by Swami Amar Jyoti belongs to the third category. It invites us to look beyond the familiar boundaries of our lives and contemplate a question that has stirred the human spirit for centuries: Who am I, really, and what is the ultimate purpose of my existence? Set against the mystical landscape of the Himalayas and the spiritual traditions of India, this book is much more than the account of a spiritual aspirant. It is an exploration of the human longing for Truth, the transformative relationship between a seeker and a spiritual Master, and the possibility of awakening to a reality beyond the limited identity we...
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Pitru Paksha: Offering the Divine Name to Our Ancestors

  A divine window to meet our ancestors Pitru Paksha is the fortnight each year when the doors between our world and the world of our ancestors stand open. In 2026 it runs from Purnima Shraddha on 26 September to Sarva Pitru Amavasya (Mahalaya) on 10 October. This is not a gloomy season of the dead. It is a divine blessing, a grace built into the calendar itself, that lets us reach across lifetimes and connect with those who came before us. Every one of us exists because of them. Our body, our family name, our habits, even our first prayers came down to us through their hands. For these fifteen days, that connection becomes easier to feel and to act on. The question is: what do we offer them? The origin: Karna's second chance The story of how Pitru Paksha began is tied to Karna, the great warrior of the Mahabharata. Karna was known as Dāna Vīra , the hero of giving. No one who came to him with a request ever went away empty-handed, and he never fell short in his duty of charity. Ye...
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Can the Planets Move a Stock? A Data Experiment with Reliance Industries

The wager Here is the trouble with testing astrology. It speaks in the language of "good phases" and "hard years," and you cannot put a good phase in a spreadsheet. Moods don't have timestamps. Luck doesn't have a decimal point. So the believer and the sceptic each go home convinced, because there was never a scoreboard to settle it. Unless — you pick the right life. Somewhere out there is a person whose fortunes are written down every single working day, in public, in rupees, by millions of strangers who have never heard of his birth chart and don't care about it: a man whose net worth is a listed share price. When his empire prospers, the number climbs before lunch. When it stumbles, the number bleeds in real time. That number has no opinion about Jupiter. It is the closest thing astrology will ever get to a lie-detector. That man is Mukesh Ambani , and that number is the share price of Reliance Industries — printed nearly every trading day since 199...
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Bartender to Prime Minister: Astrologer's view of Giorgia Meloni

The Lady Who Needs No Introduction By October 2022, the European political class had spent the better part of a decade explaining why Giorgia Meloni would never become Prime Minister of Italy. She was too provincial, too combative, too rooted in a political tradition the mainstream press had already declared dead. Then she won, walked into the Chigi Palace, and turned out to be one of the more durable leaders the continent has produced in years. The woman from Garbatella who once invented a five-liquor cocktail at a Roman nightclub had quietly become a fixture of European politics. Before we look at the chart, a brief recap of the life it describes: 1977 : Born in Rome on January 15, to a Sardinian father and a Sicilian mother. 1978 : Her father leaves the family for the Canary Islands and never meaningfully returns. 1980 : A candle she is playing with sets fire to the family home. The Melonis lose everything and end up sleeping on mattresses at the grandparents'. Teens : Sh...
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