Much of the perennial wisdom urges us to shift our perspective on events we ordinarily take for granted. Take the wee-hours wake up call that, for so many of us, feels like a curse that must be gotten through or avoided. Rare is the individual who accepts the 3am wakeup and inquires into it. Which [...]

Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher and, throughout much of the 20th century, one of the world’s best-known proponents and teachers of Advaita Vedānta (aka nondualism). A Mumbai resident, Nisargadatta married young, had children, and lived a simple life as a shopkeeper selling bidis (hand-rolled cigarettes) and other sundry items. Nisargadatta gave satsang (spiritual [...]