The Admissions Scandal Parents: Guilty But Innocent

All parents want their children to have access to a solid education as well as a social and professional network to ensure a good start to their adult lives.  But how can otherwise intelligent individuals justify breaking legal and moral boundaries (more…)

Consulting the Conscience

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.1 This advice, given by Polonius to his son in Hamlet, provides a means to harmonize our relationship (more…)

Create the Space to Think

  Introduction The capacity to think, reason, and decide for oneself is the greatest freedom an individual possesses. There is no individual liberty without intellectual liberty. While this freedom is each one’s birthright, it is earned and not simply bestowed. When we fail to (more…)

Avoiding Regret: A Daily Practice

When you act in the world against your own conscience your mind becomes disturbed. The action rebounds and hurts you. You feel sorry for having acted thus. In reaction to your own action you suffer regret and remorse. An action creating (more…)

Svadharma – Find Your Own Nature

Adapted from The Fall of the Human Intellect (Ch.7) and Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities (Ch.5), by A. Parthasarathy. Introduction Life is growth.  Our observation of the world reveals this to us.  Growth of the inner self encompasses increased self-sufficiency or autonomy, and increased empathy or (more…)