Philosophy on Deepak Nagaraj

Practical Non-Dualism

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Advaita, or non-dualism, seems very abstract. What does it mean, “the seer is not the seen”? More importantly, does it have any use for a working adult? This post is a quick operator runbook of non-dualism.

Ego is the problem

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a blog post that’s kind of self-defeating.

Religion as a Salve for Existential Truths

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Today is Christmas, an apt time to write a little about religion. I’m not a Christian, I cannot even call myself religious, but more on it in a bit. The Four Existential Truths I have long wondered about the purpose of religion, but a couple of years ago, I found an answer in a book by Irvin Yalom.1 He’s certainly not writing about religion; he’s not a priest or a preacher, but a psychotherapist.

A meditation on time and change

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

About a year ago, I read this in a book on psychotherapy1: There cannot be change without loss. It struck me as a profound statement, because it carries many implications with it. I want to expand on what change means, looking behind and ahead in time, especially in our times. In retrospective, change is loss We often talk of “big life changes”: graduation, marriage, childbirth, and so on. But it’s wiser to think of them in terms of loss: what did I lose with this change?