Sanskritizing the Smart Contract: Legal Fragility of Decentralized Pujas
As Web3 projects attempt to decentralize religious merit distribution through NFTs and blockchain, t…
AI + DharmaProvocation16 October 20267 min
Digital Samadhi: NFTs and the Problem of Posthumous Avarana
As decentralized ledgers enable families to mint 'eternal' digital representations of deceased gurus, we face a paradox: does tokenized spirituality respect the concept of 'mukti' (liberation) or create new karmic anchors? A review of three recent digital endowments reveals how blockchain immortality contradicts the foundational Vedantic belief in the impermanence of form.
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https://vedantatoday.com/dispatch/daily-2026-10-16-2-digital-samadhi-nfts-and-the-problem-of-posthumous-avarana
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