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Returning to the ineffable

A meditation on devotion and illusion

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Anuradha Pandey
Feb 17, 2025
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Greetings. I’ve been working on several long form pieces, but am in an editing rut. My analytical side has taken over the emotional one, so here’s an attempt at a rebalance. This is about my relationship with religion, specifically with bhakti, roughly translating to devotional surrender. I know, a non zero amount of you will think this is lame, especially because the sense of Hinduism in the zeitgeist emphasizes non-dual interpretations of divinity. But that’s not authoritative; the beauty of Hinduism (a fraught term itself) is the multitude of interpretations and no central authority.

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