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By Acharya Tadany.Published in Diário de Santa Maria, May 7, 2026. Happiness is, without a doubt, a serious matter, but not in the sense of something heavy, rigid, or gloomy, rather as a lucid, continuous, and prejudice-free inquiry into understanding its true nature, its authentic manifestations, and its inevitable implications for both individual and collective life. In general, life behaves …

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Linz, May 2, 2026. If you think rituals are “superstition,” perhaps you are only looking at the surface of the whole context, at the repetition, the symbols, and the form.However, their true value lies not in what is done, but in what is silently created, for rituals are containers filled with meaning. They bring rhythm to relationships, and …

By Acharya TadanyPublished in Diário de Santa Maria, April 27, 2026 Have you ever heard a stone complaining about its shape? Or a mountain dissatisfied with its height? Have you ever seen a cow distressed for not considering itself beautiful, or a lion feeling inferior to other animals? The answer to all these questions is, naturally, no.And why is that? …

Acharya Tadany Pune, 22 Mar 2026Raw Meditation Ah, these tedious and quiet moments,if only they brought solace to the torments of living, they would be a paradise.But they don’t. On the contrary, they become fertile soil for invented enemies, for imagined foes, for projecting onto others every evil we can conceive.Distrust fuels these thoughts. A sense of victimhood invades the …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, 3 April 2026. Though the horizon these days is heavy with the smoke of world affairs, we must remember that the Sky is not the Storm. For every shadow cast by a falling bomb, a million secret suns are rising in the human heart, beating with love, breathing with compassion, and standing firm in the quiet courage …

By Acharya TadanyPublished in Diário de Santa Maria, March 26, 2026. Across generations, societies speak about corruption as if it were a recent disease. As a result, we react with indignation, debate morality, demand reforms, and hope for better leadership. Yet more than two thousand years ago, one of India’s greatest political minds had already analyzed corruption with striking clarity. …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, 1 Mar 2026. And so, what they passed on to us what I call the “survival framework”, that is to say, few of us were taught how to live, on the contrary, we were only taught how to endure. One of the unspoken truths of life is that most of us were raised by parents who, despite …

Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 6 February 2026. When curiosity is punished, it does not disappear; it goes underground.When expression is repressed, honesty is replaced by secrecy. A rigid and orthodox family upbringing does not raise healthy or virtuous human beings. On the contrary, it often produces individuals who become habitual liars, subtle manipulators, and emotionally fragmented adults. This is because excessive …

Some days are like a desert.Vast and void, boundless and bitter, heavy and hollow. Some days are like a desert.Vast and void, boundless and bitter, heavy and hollow. Perhaps they aren’t even days at all, Truth be told, we should call them nights. For though a world remains visible to the eyes,The darkness within cannot name the shapes without. These …

In this powerful class, Acharya Tadany framed Krishna’s opening words (verses 2.2–2.5) as a masterful therapeutic intervention, deliberately using strong, whipping language to shock Arjuna out of his dejection and paralysis, challenging his self-image as an “ārya puruṣa” (noble person) defined by character, discipline, and courage, while exposing his current state of emotional weakness and inverted dharma as unbecoming of …