This series is an attempt to document one of the most transformative periods of my life. For seven years, I lived as a monk. During those years, I experienced discipline, doubt, silence, devotion, friendship, loss, and a way of living that was radically different from the modern world. Many of the lessons that shape my […]
Dear God, Do not make my journey easy,for easy roads have never taught me who I am. Instead,give me the strength of the mountain,that I may remain standingwhen storms arrive without warning,when the winds of doubt grow fierce,and when the weight of life feels heavier than my shoulders can bear. Give me courage,not the courage
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For a long time, I felt disconnected from the world. Not in a dramatic way. From the outside, everything looked normal. I attended college, talked to people, smiled when expected, and tried to keep up with life like everyone else. But internally, I was struggling. I was carrying questions that seemed impossible to answer. Questions
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“A reflection on why I stopped asking for success and started asking for the qualities required to earn it.” For a long time, my prayers sounded like most people’s prayers. I wanted opportunities.I wanted progress.I wanted recognition.I wanted my plans to work. But recently, something changed. These days, I find myself repeating the same three
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For years, I lived heavily inside my own mind. I observed people.Studied psychology.Analyzed emotions.Reflected on society.Spent years understanding spirituality, silence, loneliness, discipline, emotional pain, identity, masculinity, detachment, and transformation. But most of it happened internally. Inside rooms.Inside notebooks.Inside thoughts. I built theories about life. But theories and reality are two different worlds. Travel made me
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There was a time when I used to watch travelers through a mobile screen. Mountains, roads, sunsets, cafés, rivers, people exploring life — all of it felt like another universe to me.A universe I could only observe digitally. And honestly, for most of my life, I had not even traveled my own city properly. So
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There are some emails that do not feel like emails. They feel like time capsules. Recently, I received one from Deepak Kanakaraju — someone whose journey deeply influenced me during an important phase of my life. And strangely, while reading it, I realized something: This was not just about digital marketing anymore. It was about
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World Book Day Reflection | MonkModern Journal There are two kinds of books in this world. The first kind… you read. The second kind… reads you. And somewhere between confusion, rebellion, and silent introspection— I found one such book. Notes from Underground. Not as literature. But as a mirror.
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This journal marks a shift — from passive intention to active discipline.It reflects a principle that MonkModern stands on:truth, without justification.What follows is a raw analysis of excuses, energy cycles, money, and self-mastery. I can’t lie to myself anymore.I can’t justify the way I’ve been doing things.The truth is simple: I wasted time. I made
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There are moments when a person doesn’t just change — he awakens.Not into a new world, but into a new way of seeing the same one.This is the story of that awakening — of how my rebirth as ASVP Hitesh gave birth to MonkModern. The Inner Collapse that Became a Rebirth Years ago, I reached
