https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/ Essays on Vedic philosophy, bhakti and the questions worth a life. en https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/love-of-god/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/love-of-god/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A sentiment built on comfort collapses with it. The tradition defines love with an engineer's precision — and the definition survives loss. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/not-a-costume/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/not-a-costume/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Your birth chart lists the impulses nature will send you. Converting them — not wearing beads — is what the tradition calls devotion. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/shadow/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/shadow/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why did the soul end up in matter? The tradition's most esoteric answer involves a kidnapping, a shadow, and the anatomy of love itself. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/fake-guru/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/fake-guru/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Rūpa Gosvāmī left a one-verse job description for spiritual teachers. Six urges, six checks — and no exceptions for titles. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/two-immortalities/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/two-immortalities/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Everyone fighting death — from scientists to mystics — is aiming at one of two exits. The Veda maps both, and warns about the first. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/why-god-lets-you-suffer/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/why-god-lets-you-suffer/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A week into the worst headache of my life I had three theories about God. The scriptures forced a fourth. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/show-me-your-heaven/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/show-me-your-heaven/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every paradise built of food, sex and applause is a confession: its builders never asked what a soul is. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/main-character/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/main-character/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Krishna calls you energy in one chapter and a person in another. The contradiction is deliberate — and your false "I" lives inside it. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/your-desires/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/your-desires/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hunger, ambition, lust: the Gita says they arrive from outside. Your freedom begins one step later. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/false-renunciation/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/false-renunciation/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT The tradition has a name for the mistake — false renunciation. And a cure that is two words long. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/is-yoga-demonic/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/is-yoga-demonic/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A Christian woman wrote that yoga is the devil's work. To answer her, one must know what yoga is — and what Christianity is. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/banana/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/banana/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The strangest doctrine of Vedānta — matter turning into spirit — explained through the most ordinary act in India. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/religion-and-death/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/religion-and-death/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT An argument with an atheist, a boy who questioned Death, and the one thing no technology has ever answered. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/why-god-comes-here/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/why-god-comes-here/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The father in the parable waited for the prodigal son. The Vedas describe a Father who doesn't wait. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/lords-prayer-2/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/lords-prayer-2/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The strange word behind «daily bread», the debts nobody can collect, and who exactly does the tempting. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/lords-prayer-1/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/lords-prayer-1/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Our Father, the hallowed name, the kingdom that has to be asked for — line by line, through Vedānta. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/four-floors/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/four-floors/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consciousness has floors, and each floor has its own idea of what happiness is. Most religion lives on the second one. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/goodness/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/goodness/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A reader proposed auditing faith by its public results. The tradition has already answered — verse by verse. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/faith/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/faith/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every tradition calls faith the first step. Almost nobody says what it is made of, or where it comes from. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/destroy-your-future/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/destroy-your-future/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Read one way, the Bhagavad-gītā is God talking a man into a war. Read another, it is the clearest thing ever written about where happiness is not. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/yoga/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/yoga/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The word means connection — not stretching, not calm, not self-improvement. And the tradition insists the connection has someone on the other end. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/dharma/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/dharma/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dharma does not mean duty, religion or law. It means what holds you up — and getting it wrong blurs an entire library. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/hunger/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/hunger/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT We call it stress, boredom, ambition, loneliness. One old tradition calls it hunger — and says we keep feeding it the wrong thing. https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/two-passions/ https://teodonnelly.com/en/blog/two-passions/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT There are two kinds of passion in a human being. The second one wears the clothes of virtue — and that is what makes it hard to see.