Philosophy

Dr. Raj Balkaran is the Founder of the School of Indian Wisdom where he teaches original online courses combining scholarship, storytelling and spirituality to apply ancient wisdom teachings to modern life.

Death always comes as a surprise even when we know it’s coming. It’s as much a part of life as birth.

Of all meditations, that on death is supreme.

Across religious traditions, revealed scripture is viewed by the faithful as a direct link to that Being/Deity/Truth that reveals the wisdom contained within Its revelation as scripture.

The academic study of yoga is subtly at odds with its practical objectives.

What should our work be, here and now, as producers of knowledge?

One of the most interesting things about what we call “knowledge” is its extraordinary flexibility.

Scholars of religion, it turns out, often have profound religious experiences reading and interpreting the texts they critically study, and these events have consequences for the methods and models they develop, the conclusions they come to, and even for the traditions they study.