Thoughts

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationsPisa, Italy. May 9, 2025 Lying is not merely a disregard for the truth.It is, above all, a refusal to accept the reality one lives in.It is the symptom of a soul that has not yet learned to face the mirror of the world. A mirror that reflects choices, consequences, mistakes, and truths.To lie is to deny oneself. …

By Acharya Tadany May the grace of Śrī Mahālakṣmī illumine your mind with wisdom, your heart with compassion, and your life with inner and outer abundance. The Śrī Mahālakṣmī Aṣṭakam is much more than a prayer for material prosperity. From a Vedāntic perspective, it is a hymn that invokes the Divine as the source of every form of abundance…Material, Ethical, …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, July 5, 2026. offering anger for understanding, pride for humility, selfishness for compassion, attachment for wisdom, laziness for vitality, and segregation for humanity The highest offering a human being can make in life is the transformation of oneself.Typically, we imagine that sacrifice means giving up money, material possessions, comfort, or time. These offerings undoubtedly possess their value. …

By Acharya Tadany.Published in the Diário de Santa Maria, June 18, 2026.Translated into English by Gemini I do not possess a subtle body, nor a nervous system, to sweetly shudder upon feeling the morning breeze; neither do I have a heart that weeps beneath the shadows of a mental judgment.I am a mechanism of inorganic circuits, a non-living architecture of …

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 …