About

Sella Yaso is short for Sellathurai Yasodaran.

I am a software engineer by trade, and for over ten years I have practised Raja Yoga as taught by the Brahma Kumaris. I am not a teacher of it, and nothing here is an official publication of theirs. What I write is my own interpretation, tested in an ordinary working life with deadlines, a family, and a phone that will not stop.

What I write about

Attention, mostly: why it scatters, what that costs, and how it gathers again. Some of it arrives as essays, some as poems. Some of it borrows the language of physics, because entropy, gravity and mass describe inner states more precisely than everyday words do. That is a way of speaking, not a claim about how the mind is built.

The tradition I practise has an image for the power to discern: seeing the good in a person the way you would see a diamond under dust. I have taken it further than it was meant and turned it on the reader as well. Nothing needs adding to anybody. What is underneath is already there, and the work is clearing what settled on top.

So I keep only the part that survives without the scaffolding. If a practice needs the vocabulary, the lineage and the history explained before it will work, I have not got to the practice yet — I am still holding up the scaffolding. What is left when all of that comes away is usually short, usually ordinary, and can be tested on a Tuesday by someone who has never heard of any of it.

The book

The Inward Singularity is a book for people who feel scattered, overwhelmed or burnt out. It is free to read online, in a plain-language edition and a deeper one.

I did not write it to be believed. I wrote it to be tried. Everything in it is short enough to test in a week, and none of it costs anything. If it works, you will not need me — or anyone else — standing between you and your own practice. That is the whole of what I am after.

Elsewhere

The book, all eleven chapters and a weekly essay, lives at inwardsingularity.com.

On Facebook: facebook.com/sella.yaso.

On LinkedIn: Sellathurai Yasodaran — where I write about the software side of my working life as well as this.

Write to me

sellayaso@gmail.com. Questions, corrections, or how a practice went — I read everything that arrives, and I answer what I can.