Thoughts

By Acharya Tadany.Published in the Diário de Santa Maria, June 4, 2026.Translated into English by Gemini. A large part of the conflicts between parents and children is born not from a lack of love, but from the unrealistic expectations that both construct over the course of a lifetime.From childhood, we are taught to view our parents through a specific role: …

Tattva Bodha – Summary, by Acharya Tadany Class 46Date: June 1, 2025 In this class, Acharya Tadany addressed a deeply practical question from a student and then introduced one of the most important topics in Vedānta: the nature of Jīva (individual consciousness) and Īśvara (universal consciousness). Question Before Class: Seeing the Self in Difficult People A student asked how one …

Acharya Tadany
Morning Meditation
Pune, 2 June 2026 When the wisdom of Vedānta (spiritual knowledge) is not assimilated,it remains available only during śravaṇam, while listening to the teachings. Then, as soon as I put on my shoesand step back into the world of roles, duties, and interactions,the teaching quietly recedes,and my old personality returns. Old habits reclaim the mind,old reactions reappear,and the …

Acharya TadanyPune, 31 May 2026Evening Meditation Governments are investing millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money – a wealth which is created through the labor, creativity, and effort of ordinary people – to develop and manufacture automated weapons. Then, these weapons are ultimately designed to destroy other automated war machines. Meanwhile, millions of human beings continue to suffer from hunger, lack …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationVienna, 30 April 2026. When it is all said and done,What is left to whisper about?When it is all acted and lied through,What is left to manipulate? Time reveals a strange brevity,While illusions roam untethered.Possibilities seem limitless,Yet imagination exhausts itself so quickly. When the curtain falls upon borrowed dreams,And echoes of deceit dissolve into silence,What remains but the …

By Acharya TadanyPublished in Diário de Santa Maria, May 17, 2026 There is something both fascinating and deeply human about the fact that, despite our countless differences, nearly everyone is engaged in the same essential pursuit: the search for happiness, security, and a meaningful life.Whether someone is young and ambitious, an adult immersed in responsibilities, or an elderly person reflecting …

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 …

Acharya Tadany.Response to a reader’s question.Ubersee, May 6, 2026. Addictions, whether to drugs, alcohol, social media, power, or anything else, do not merely affect the body; they silently reshape the mind, distorting perception and weakening discernment. Little by little, what was once clear, right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate, gentle and aggressive, becomes blurred, confused, and distant. In such a …

Acharya Tadany
Morning Meditation
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? …