AkaayatiAKAAYATI

Writings

I write because I finally found the confidence to express myself in words. These pages are both an acknowledgement of my gratitude to all who walked with me on my journey, and an offering to anyone who feels inspired.

Essays

Reflections

Personal essays on listening, belonging, faith and the quiet questions of everyday life.

A woman holding her newly published book by a window
The Stories We Finish Too SoonOn listening, early certainty, and the rare generosity of saying “tell me more.”Read the essay →
 A woman's silhouette blending into a city and an altered landscape
Convenience and ConscienceAI, modern comforts and the quiet costs we rarely see, and what it means to live with the questions.Read the essay →
 Schoolchildren standing on benches with hands raised in a classroom
Deeper Than DifferencesA childhood of many beliefs, a home of many perspectives, and what truly holds us together.Read the essay →
 An ethereal elder over a golden shore
The Mystic & The Seeker“I stand at the threshold, looking in both directions.” A prelude to Vak Suktam.Read the essay →
 How We Create Our Worlds
How We Create Our WorldsOn the quiet assumption that the world as we see it and the world as it is are one and the same.Read the essay →
Series

Read in sequence

Longer explorations, written to be read one after another.

The Sankhya chain of creation
Six parts

Panch Mahabhuta

The five great elements through a yogic lens: how creation unfolds in Sankhya, and what water, fire, air, space and earth teach us about the body, the breath and the mind.

  1. The Creation: A Sankhya PerspectiveBefore the Panch Mahabhutas
  2. Jal TattvaThe Water Element
  3. AgniThe Flame of Transformation
  4. VayuMovement, Prana and Inner Expansion
  5. AkashaSpace, Ether
  6. PrithviThe Earth Element
Rama and Krishna
A conversation

Questions We Keep

A Seeker and a Knower talk through the Ramayana and the Mahabharata: Ravana’s ten heads, Rama and Krishna, and what the epics still ask of us.

  1. Why Did Ravana Have Ten Heads?The Fall of Ravana
  2. Rama, Krishna and Two Worlds of DharmaOne question, and an invitation to the booklet
  3. He Who Never Mastered HimselfGreatness, moral failure and judgement
Books

On Kindle

Cover of DashavataraDashavataraThe Discipline of Seeing Past AppearancesKindle and paperback on Amazon → Cover of Vak SuktamVak SuktamA Hymn to the Supreme ConsciousnessKindle on Amazon · Paperback soon →
Questions We KeepAkaayati
Questions We KeepThe whole conversation, with some more surprisesComing soon on Kindle
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