I have a collection of books I wanted to read. Books that are all over the place\nand don’t help with my goal or purpose. So I am no longer going to be focusing\ntoo much on just randomly reading and will focus on improving the Cycles. While\nthis may seem like it will limit my focus and understanding of the world I do\nnot think that is necessarily the case. The books I tend to read are within the\ncycles anyways, but they are focused too much on singular pieces.
\nMy goal now is to improve the specific piece of the puzzle for a particular\nsection. This can incorporate any reading that I want but it also drives me to\nfocus on a few things. How this transpires is that I will be focused on reading\nto improve a single limb or part of a cycle that I want to improve, incorporate\nthe ideas of what I read, and move to the next limb to improve. This means a\ncontinuous improvement of the limbs by removing the waste and simplification of\neach limb.
\nThis also means that any improvements I make also need to be focused on the\nspecific cycle.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/10/sevaka-0.40", "title": "sevaka v0.40: Simplifying Knowledge Accumulation", "summary": "I have a collection of books I wanted to read. Books that are all over the place", "date_modified": "2026-04-10T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "svadhyaya" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/09/sevaka-0.39", "content_html": "One of the things I realize about spirituality is that there needs to be\ndistinct times where we spend time in the outside world and time when we are\nfocused completely on the inner world. This distinction is important as trying\nto mix the two is a disaster. When spending time in the inner world the outside\nworld must be avoided as much as possible. When dealing with the outside world\nwe can also combine with the inner world.
\nBut most of the time should be spent on the inner world. Putting order to the\ninner world so that when we are faced with the outer world we are quick and\nefficient. The inner world means family, cleaning, meditation, prayer and so on.\nThe outer world is work and whatever is needed to interact with the world.
\nI have updated the tapas to incorporate how I am dealing\nwith this changes.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/09/sevaka-0.39", "title": "sevaka v0.39: Inner World and Outer World", "summary": "One of the things I realize about spirituality is that there needs to be", "date_modified": "2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "tapas" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/08/sevaka-0.37", "content_html": "On Tuesday, I spent most of the day worried that it was the end of the world.\nThat there will be a nuclear war because of Trump’s tweets in regards to Iran.\nThis proved to be a waste of time as Trump chickened out and no destruction\nhappened. However, I spent a whole day worried, figuring out what my last meal\nshould be, etc. This was all basically fruitless endeavor.
\nWhat I realize is that we are ants. We need to work and continuing doing our\nwork and try to make that work useful and better for the world. If in the\nprocess of doing our work we get crushed or killed it really isn’t up to us. We\nneed to just be the best at what we do regardless of the situation and\ncircumstances.
\nThis seems to be the true meaning behind pratyahara. To move the senses away\nfrom the world and turn inward. The world will be the world, we cannot do\nanything about it. Our goal is to move inward and let the world be. It shouldn’t\nmove us and who wins and who loses doesn’t matter. Our goal is to see the\ncircumstances and move the world towards the path we think is ideal without\nhaving the world move us in the process.
\nWe need to be stable and rooted in Isvara the pinnacle of stability and trust\nHim to do what needs to be done. Getting tied into the waves is not fruitful.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/08/sevaka-0.37", "title": "sevaka v0.37: Pratyahara and The New World Order", "summary": "On Tuesday, I spent most of the day worried that it was the end of the world.", "date_modified": "2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "pratyahara" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/08/sevaka-0.38", "content_html": "Sevaka and Sakha have a cycle. These cycles are the 8 limbs for sevaka and the\nCapital, Team, Venture cycle for sakha. What I realize is that I must simply\nimprove both these cycles. Each of these have simple outcomes. By simplifying\nthe outcomes the cycle becomes easier and easier to manage.
\nBy focusing on these two cycles the goal becomes in essence an engineering and\nquality problem. The outcomes for each are now known. Further, the way to\napproach this is through the quality equation.
\nAll of this means that the tasks that are done, etc. will be to optimize the\nabove. The goal is to go quickly through each of the cycles and optimize as fast\nas possible.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/08/sevaka-0.38", "title": "sevaka v0.38: The Cycle", "summary": "Sevaka and Sakha have a cycle. These cycles are the 8 limbs for sevaka and the", "date_modified": "2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "sevaka" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/06/sevaka-0.36", "content_html": "The news is devastating and we are all but about to face an economic collapse.\nIt is not an if but when at this point. But getting tied to the news is\ndepressing because it doesn’t allow you to function. I am addicted to how things\nwill fall apart. While this is useful for preparing for the inevitable it is\nalso useful to not pay attention to this and let Isvara do His job.
\nIn that regard I am trying to limit the scope of when I am going to pay\nattention to the news as well as my scope of worldly topics. I am in a way\naddicted to the learning aspect and not enough of the action aspect. I like to\nread more and more, listen more and more, to get more and more knowledge about\nthe worldly affairs, but all of this makes me more and more depressed because we\ncan’t control it in anyway. We can control the little part of life that we have,\nbut not the grand experiment.
\nThis will require quite a few changes.
\nThese three things are going to be what I am going to try to address.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/06/sevaka-0.36", "title": "sevaka v0.36: Pratyahara and the News", "summary": "The news is devastating and we are all but about to face an economic collapse.", "date_modified": "2026-04-06T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "pratyahara" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/02/sakha-v0.16", "content_html": "I have started to hate the unfettered capitalism that has lead to the private\nequity industry which has taken over a large portion of America. It loads up\neach company with debt and destroys the value of the individual business.\nHowever I do find the structure of private equity to be useful. It is an\neffective strategy because it separates the concerns of the capital from the\nconcerns of the venture. While the venture needs to grow to sustain itself, it\nis not concerned per se with finances. It is a product that is grown\nindependently.
\nIn that regard I have divided the sakha into three specific components:
\nThis structure allows me to have the sakha focused completely on the world. The\nsevaka piece can then focus on the inner world. The goal is to split the focus\nsuch that everything I do is pushed out into the the buckets of the inner world\nand outer world.
\nOne of the big problems I had was that I was incorporating a lot of the outer\nworld into the sevaka path. While yama can be considered Karma Yoga, it should\nbe more to learn how to be a Karma Yogi not necessarily the tactical aspects.\nThe part should be completely moved to the sakha path.
\nThe inner world includes a lot of things including meditation, gardening,\ncleaning, exercise, and study. All of these are important and can all be done\nduring the sevaka time. Overall this simplifies a lot of my goals.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/04/02/sakha-v0.16", "title": "sakha v0.16: Split Sakha into Capital, Team and Ventures", "summary": "I have started to hate the unfettered capitalism that has lead to the private", "date_modified": "2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "sakha" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/03/20/sakha-v0.15", "content_html": "I am moving back to Github Actions hosted by Microsoft and away from\nself-hosting. The gist of the way things lie at the moment are that we will be\nhaving higher energy prices which will translate to higher compute costs and\nthings that are JIT will be a bit more cost effective at the moment.
\nThis means removing unnecessary compute actions and such.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/03/20/sakha-v0.15", "title": "sakha v0.15: Deprecating Self-Hosted Github Actions", "summary": "I am moving back to Github Actions hosted by Microsoft and away from", "date_modified": "2026-03-20T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "issues" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/03/11/sakha-v0.14", "content_html": "opsZero is reaching a decade in age. While I have grown it I have made a lot of\nmistakes which I want to address systematically. Second, opsZero is going to be\nstandardized allowing us to grow in a consistent manner and as a single brand.\nLastly, with the geopolitical situation access to compute is going to become\nmore important and we will be returning to a world moving away from the Cloud\nand focused on cost and efficiency.
\nWhile we will have to address the situation of opsZero, the Iran War has created\na new World Order in which the East dominates and power will wholesale move out\nof the West. One of the pillars of this new world will be India. As the value of\nthe dollar shrinks the only outcome for a lot of Western companies is to move\ntheir bases to India.
\nopsZero's focus has been scattered in terms of technology and business. We have\nmoved the business into areas that are just not our core competency. Here are a\nlist of our failures:
\nBecause of the failures listed above we will be changing the business. For the\nnext stage of our growth we are going to focus on a few things and deemphasize\nmany others.
\nopsZero has been chasing every niche and this hasn't been fruitful. This has us\nchasing enterprises, SMBs, startups, etc., etc. This has proven to be\nineffective. Each industry has a different tempo, requirements and style. Each\nis different from the other and we haven't created a tempo of outreach. Chasing\nafter healthcare companies is difficult versus chasing after enterprise, etc.
\nSo we will focus on just three verticals that are under served and where we can\ndrive a lot of value:
\nWe are diversifying from the Cloud to be more Hybrid Cloud. Especially, with the\nIranian attacks on the AWS UAE data centers the age of centralization is over.\nAs the American Empire crumbles the centralization of power into American\ncompanies like AWS also starts to reduce. So decentralization becomes the norm\nagain.
\nOne of the goals with the products side is to focus on build out using open\nsource.
\nWith the Iran War we will see a rather fast destruction of the American Empire.\nWealth and power will move to the East specifically India and China.\nIncidentally, I also think this means multinationals will move East as well.\nWith a drop in the dollar and a lack of growth opportunities in the US a period\nof stagflation will take over the country and a debt crisis will essentially cut\nthe dollar's value by 50%. Low growth and high inflation means hiring people in\nthe US becomes an economic burden resulting in wholesale migration of jobs East.
\nMultinationals are not inherently tied to a location. They move as needed to\ndifferent jurisdictions based on their focus on profitability. This is nothing\nnew and has been a constant throughout history. This disadvantages SMBs and\nstartups that don’t have these relationships or ability to build businesses in\nIndia. Migration of these roles to India is the area that we will target.
\nHowever, as multinationals and other companies didn’t die when the British\nEmpire collapsed there is a way to get through to the other side of the\nAmerican Collapse. We need to understand that we are moving to a:
\nTo address this situation we must force ourselves towards two specific goals.
\nLastly, the goal of our business is to strengthen and turn India into a\nHindurastra. As the American Empire dies, Sanatana Dharma will be a dominant\nforce in the world. India will have a difficult time for the next few years, but\nonce the 30s come along there will be a rapid acceleration of energy and focus\nwith India becoming one of the major forces alongside China.
\nWhen this happens Indians will notice that Hindu Dharma is the driving force of\nthe world. With Buddhism in China or Yoga in America. This will lead to a\nrecognition of India's spiritual contribution to the world and a return to our\nroots. The timeframe around the 2040s is when India will become a spiritual\npower again.
\nSo our goal until then is to grow internally using Sanatana Dharma as our core.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/03/11/sakha-v0.14", "title": "sakha v0.14: opsZero Next Decade and New World Order", "summary": "opsZero is reaching a decade in age. While I have grown it I have made a lot of", "date_modified": "2026-03-11T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "ventures", "opszero" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/26/sakha-v0.12", "content_html": "AI is a disruptive force. I was skeptical about its impact but now seeing the\nrapid developments by Anthropic I can say I am now a convert. While in 2025 AI\nwas in development stage at this point we are in an accelerated implementation\nstage.
\nThere are some significant changes I see happening:
\nWhat does it mean for us?
\nWe are going to transition to becoming an AI first product company. We will be\nfocusing less and less on services and will be completely focused on products\nthat have AI at the core. The products will be based around being inputs for AI\nto make additional decisions around.
\nThe goal is for us to launch a product quickly, set up the processes for\nimprovement, and sell and market with a few workers. This will require a mindset\nshift in the way we work. Currently, we have a services mindset where delivering\nhigh quality work to customers is expected instead we need to change to a\nmindset of velocity.
\nSome things we need to do:
\nIt is easy to ruminate on the past and future of a business but it is hard to\nsee where you are in the present. Data forces you to understand the present.\nOnce you have figured out the present and always clearing out anything in the\npast or future then you can clear your mind to the capabilities you have and\nremove anything that does not provide value.
\nThe data fueled present is much like meditation for an individual. It forces a\ncompany to also be in th present.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/26/sakha-v0.13", "title": "sakha v0.13: Infinite Game", "summary": "It is easy to ruminate on the past and future of a business but it is hard to", "date_modified": "2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "tapas", "issues" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/26/sevaka-0.35", "content_html": "To get started in my reading I am focusing my energies on a few sections:
\nThis also includes a general study of the Hanuman Chalisa, Yoga Sutras and the\nBhagavad Gita. The goal is to deepen the study of these three texts.
\nHowever, to understand the texts is to study the saints who lived the yogic\nlife. The stories are easier to remember than prescriptions so that is the focus\nof my energies. Once the stories are internalized then I can then understand\nthe Bhakti and Prayer. The Sadhana portion is there to remove the blemishes and\nfigure out how to lead a more yogic life.
\nThe goal is to build devotion. It is not at this point to decern Brahman or get\ninto pure meditation. It is to purify myself and to get into a belief of Isvara\nwithout doubt.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/26/sevaka-0.35", "title": "sevaka v0.35: Reading Order", "summary": "To get started in my reading I am focusing my energies on a few sections:", "date_modified": "2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "yama", "svadhyaya" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/25/sevaka-0.33", "content_html": "I am updating my routine where I am\nchanging Pray to be Contemplation. I realize that my work time is important to,\nwell, work on Sakha and Samaja related tasks. What I constituted as the Pray\ntime was also meditation, svadyaya, reading classics, and learning Hindi. So\nI am changing the Pray time to Contemplation time. This allows me to use this\ntime a bit more broadly to improve each of the limbs that I have including\nstudying cooking, exercise and other sadhana adjacent things.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/25/sevaka-0.33", "title": "sevaka v0.33: tapas, Changing Pray to Contemplation", "summary": "I am updating my routine where I am", "date_modified": "2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "tapas" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/25/sevaka-0.34", "content_html": "As I contemplate sevaka and samaja, I realized that the sevaka exists to promote\nSanatana Dharma. I want people trained within the framework to use it to promote\nSantana Dharma. Having a separate samaja pillar doesn't make sense with that.\nSo samaja will be merged back into sevaka under yama. The goal is to outgrow\nthe ego, and promotion of Sanatana Dharma is the way to accomplish that task.
\nSevaka exists to build good character, to lead society. A sevaka is also a\nrepresentation of society. So society should not be something separate from that\nworld view.
\nLastly, this simplifies what had before the focus. There should be two focuses\nsevaka and sakha. The sakha is the business units to help society. The sevaka is\na part building and influencing society.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/25/sevaka-0.34", "title": "sevaka v0.34: samaja merged into sevaka", "summary": "As I contemplate sevaka and samaja, I realized that the sevaka exists to promote", "date_modified": "2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "samaja", "ventures" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/09/sevaka-0.32", "content_html": "I made the practice of the sevaka unnecessarily complex. A fault of my own\nignorance and misunderstanding and lack of depth of knowledge. To simplify I am\ngoing back to the eight limbs of Patanjali as the core practice. When I started\na year ago I wanted to incorporate the four yogas into a single practice but now\nrealize that the eight limbs already combine the four. Maharishi Patanjali\nalready figured it out, I being some guy don't need to replace this system with my\nown when I haven't even fully figured out His.
\nSo I am simplifying the sevaka path to just be the practice of the astanga while\nincorporating the Vedanta philosophy. This simplifies the entire sevaka path to\njust be the Patanjali path which makes it much much easier to communicate as\nwell as knowing what aspects of the path I need to improve.
\nConstantly thinking about work doesn’t focus my brain it scatters it and makes\nit difficult to focus. So I’ve split my days into three two hour chunks.\nScientifically the brain can only work son intensely for a short burst of time.\nAn hour and half seems to be about he max but I given myself a buffer of 15 mins\non both sides to get going.
\nA problem I have faced is a guilt for not studying the shastras on a daily\nbasis. A guilt for not studying that doesn’t lead to any positive outcome other\nthan stress. Sometimes I want to study something else other than shastras. So I\nam reframing my Work schedule to learn, work and study with a focused intensity.
\nThis means the most important spiritual tasks are my meditations. The true\nculmination of Bhakti and Karma Yoga. While I do want to study the shastras I will\nread them in focused intense manner similar to the other tasks that I have in mind. I think\nthis will mean I can focus on finishing a complete text instead of just reading a couple of\npages a day. I keep forgetting what I read if I just read a couple of pages a day.
\nSo my work is going to be focused intensely on specific tasks:
\nI wrote previously that I wanted to cultivate\ndevotion as pure meditation was not providing me with the Brava that I wanted.\nFurther, just sitting in meditation all the time was leading me to get a bit\nantsy. Meditation creates focus, but if Bhagavan isn’t in focus, then the carnal\npleasures become the objects of focus. So I decided that I want to focus more\ntime on devotion as part of my day that takes on various forms not just\nmeditation. What I came to realize is a few things:
\nIn order to simplify my life even more I have divided my day into two buckets:\nDevotion and Work. Yes, I include time for exercise, family and cleaning. But\nfor the most part the day is simply broken into 2 hour work chunks and 30 minute\ndevotion chunks. This radically simplifies what I need to think about at any\ngiven time. This also gives me ample time throughout the day for devotion and\nthinking about Bhagavan to center myself.
\nI still hope to meditate about 30 minutes a day, but it also gives me 2.5 hours\nto dedicate to studying other things.
\nLastly, the Devotion time should be focused on improving one of the 8 Limbs.\nThis is a significantly important point. By improving the 8 Limbs I am focusing\non progressing spiritually not just arbitrarily reading things.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/02/sevaka-0.30", "title": "sevaka v0.30: Devotion and Work", "summary": "I wrote previously that I wanted to cultivate", "date_modified": "2026-02-02T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "samyama" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/02/sevaka-0.31", "content_html": "While I am reading a great many texts at the moment the end goal for all of this\nis to get to liberation. All this reading isn't for fun, there is an end goal in\nmind. There are better things to read than how to discipline yourself.
\nAs I read these texts I am overcompensating by reading more than I need to with\nthe assumption that I incorporate the best ideas into my Sadhana, move on from\nthe texts that didn't provide much, and then largely focus on the sastas and the texts\nthat were exceptional.
\nSo if the texts in svadhyaya seem like a lot, it's because\nI am trying to read a lot of texts to find the best ones.
\nTo prioritize my read texts in the following order according to the teacher:
\nThis order is based on the cummulative knowledge of the teachers and in many\nways the teacher's ability to communicate to me through the language they use.\nWhile I do like reading Swami Sivananda, the language is a bit more dated than\nthe jokes that Swami Dayananda Saraswati uses. In this way the texts just feel\nmore alive and relevant to me.
\nI am no trying to say that the other teachers aren't good, but I am trying to\nprioritize my ability to understand the texts and incorporate the ideas into my\nSadhana quickly.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/02/sevaka-0.31", "title": "sevaka v0.31: Order of Reading", "summary": "While I am reading a great many texts at the moment the end goal for all of this", "date_modified": "2026-02-02T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "niyama" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/01/sevaka-0.28", "content_html": "While I love Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda’s teachings, the Vedanta\nSocieties of the West seem to be tailored to whites and Bengalis. While I have\nno problem with these institutions being devoted to developing Vedanta for those\nwho are not from Indian backgrounds this poses a limitation for myself who is\nfrom an Indian background.
\nThe Vedanta Societies seem to have taken on a very church like demeanor which is\nnot something that I grew up with going to Hindu Temples. While I will continue\nwith reading and thinking about Ramakrishna and Vivekananda I think in terms of\na sangh I will focus on the Chinmaya Mission. Vivekananda is modern India’s\nspiritual father and if I were in India I would follow the tracks of the\nRamakrishna Mission. However, the Ramakrishna in the West seems to be about\npromoting Vedanta among non-Indians. It sets aside the Puranic literature.
\nWhile I do believe in the universality of Vedanta to all religious systems, I am\nIndian. The Puranic literature with the plethora of devas and asuras plays an\nimportant part in the Vedanta teaching. The Puranic texts form a moral compass\nfrom which we can then move to the more metaphysical aspects of Jnana Yoga.\nUnfortunately, it seems the Hindu smriti texts are not a core teaching of the\nRamakrishna tradition. In this regard the Ramakrishna tradition seems to be\nlacking. By trying to be universalistic in its teaching of Vedanta, it limits\nthe focus on any specific Bhakti outside of Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada\nDevi’s teachings. While the teachings of Ramakrishna are quite illuminating I do\nwant to study more of the smriti’s which don’t seem to have a strong focus.
\nSo I think the natural lineage of Vivekananda in modern Indian context is the\nKarma Yoga ideal built into the RSS. While I will continue on reading the texts\nof the Ramakrishna Mission as they are quite good in terms of practice I will\ncenter on the RSS as the Vivekananda lineage.
\nWhile Chinmaya is a primarily Jnana Yoga path, the beginning of Jnana Yoga is\nBhakti and Chinamayanada does seem to cover a lot of the early teachings of Adi\nShankaracharya. Further, while Vivekananda built the Ramakrishna Societies in\nthe West when there were not many if any Indians, Chinamayananda started in the\n70s when more Indians were in place. So lots of the traditions that I grew up\nwith are in place.
\nAnyways, from a sangh and a family standpoint the Chinmaya Mission seems to be\ncloser to what I want to be a part of in terms of community.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/02/01/sevaka-0.28", "title": "sevaka v0.28: Ramakrishna Societies, RSS and Chinmaya Mission", "summary": "While I love Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda’s teachings, the Vedanta", "date_modified": "2026-02-01T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "niyama" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/01/27/sevaka-0.27", "content_html": "The path of yoga that I have been exploring is focused on devotion\n(bhakti/karma), discipline (raja), and knowledge (jnana). But what I realize is\nthat before anything can be done on the discipline and knowledge path a firm\nfoundation of devotion needs to be established.
\nThis I don't have yet. I have it then I lose it, I get distracted, my ego takes\nover. I plan for the future! The devotion aspect is quite missing or not deeply\nrooted and it gets pulled into the whirlwind of life.
\nThe problem I see is that devotion requires always being in the present whereas\nthe ego is always scheming for the future or ruminating on the past. The past is\ngone and the future is uncertain. But the ego always wants something or another.
\nI also get caught up on history, economics, politics, and all these external\nthings that are not in my control. These are transient things. They are unreal\nand fleeting. The only thing certain about them is that they will occur over and\nover again.
\nWhat we are about to face is the Bronze Age Collapse, or a collapse of a\ncivilization. This has happened before and will happen again. So why worry\nabout it? Getting pulled into these things is a distraction.
\nThe only focus should be on devotion and doing the work. Whatever happens, happens.
\nSo I am going to focus on devotion first. The question is how to cultivate devotion.
\nWhile I have been practicing meditation and have enjoyed the technical aspects\nof it, after all that is what the Yoga Sutras are, the problem is that it is not\ncultivating devotion. I am getting mindful, but without a firm foundation of\ndevotion, my mind is restless and distracted.
\nIt needs to be rooted which I don't have yet.
\nSo while I will continue developing my meditation practice, I am primarily going\nto focus on devotion. In one way meditation is easier once you do it a while,\nbut devotion is harder because it requires surrendering the ego.
\nWhat I realize is that devotion is based on stories. While meditation is a\nprocess it is stories that we remember and that we need to connect with. Bhakti\nis pure duality, Raja is about bridging that duality, and Jnana is about\nnon-duality. So in devotion the first step is to just love Isvara without ego.\nThe way to love Isvara is through stories.
\nSo the goal for devotion is to:
\nBut the focus is stories. To read stories and immerse myself in them.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/01/27/sevaka-0.27", "title": "servaka v0.27: Devotion", "summary": "The path of yoga that I have been exploring is focused on devotion", "date_modified": "2026-01-27T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "ishvarapranidhana", "yama" ] }, { "id": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/01/22/sakha-v0.12", "content_html": "I am deprecating Deming incorporating those features into this website. The core\nfeatures should not live separately. Further, I am putting Deepfacts, DBAZero\nand PolicyCop on hold. I am trying to reduce the number of projects I am working\non to focus on the ones I think I can deliver the most value with. With\nDiscountCloud and Kubespot, I think I have enough to keep me busy for the\nforeseeable future.
\nDeming was a good experiment but I think it is better to have everything\nintegrated into one platform. This website can serve as the hub for all my\nthoughts on business so it is better for that to live here.
\nSo the projects I am going to focus on are:
\nEverything else is on hold or deprecated or merged into this website.
", "url": "https://abhiyerra.com/blog/2026/01/22/sakha-v0.12", "title": "sakha v0.12: Deprecating Deming. Deepfacts, DBAZero and PolicyCop on Hold", "summary": "I am deprecating Deming incorporating those features into this website. The core", "date_modified": "2026-01-22T00:00:00.000Z", "author": { "name": "abhiyerra" }, "tags": [ "ventures" ] } ] }