The site features everything from short articles to more extensive and in-depth studies. All of them seek to offer genuine Universal Knowledge that invites reflection on the meaning of life and on our current stage of evolution, which is still conditioned by selfishness. A knowledge that also addresses the essential concerns of human beings in the face of the reality of the world: its instability, its conflicts, suffering, inequalities, and the tragedies and atrocities that run through both history and our contemporary era.

In essence, this knowledge points to the true origin of the inevitable sufferings to which humanity is subject: the infallible universal law of cause and effect—the law of Karma—which acts as a silent instruction of the eternal law of Evolution through our successive lives on Earth.

Paul Brunton writes:

“Is one of the oldest ideas to be found in human culture, this idea that man’s life is subject to a higher power, that he is personally responsible to a higher law for his actions and that he cannot escape its retribution for wrong-doing or its reward for righteousness. The Stoics of ancient Rome had this idea and called it Fate. The Platonists of ancient Greece had it and called it Destiny. And the Indians, mostly Buddhists and Hindus, had it and have it and call it Karma.”

“An ethically blinded world may not perceive the actuality and factuality of karma. There is no other God pulling historic strings than the karmic laws of retribution and re-adjustment. The sufferings it brings to peoples are really the reactions of their own near or remote deeds. They are visited by the consequences of their own making. Karma works in its own time to set straight all crooked things, not in ours. Nevertheless we can sometimes see it move quickly enough to teach a vivid lesson both to those who suffer its consequences and those who observe that suffering.”

“Karma expresses itself through events which may seem to be accidents. But they are so only on the surface.”

“Nobody succeeds in extinguishing karma merely because he intellectually denies its existence. He may deceive himself or others, but he cannot deceive the power of karma. Before it, he must stand responsible for his acts and receive their due effects. There is no other way he can go.”

“The mystery of evil is perhaps the profoundest of all but it cannot be understood through surface views. Evil is closely connected with suffering and the latter in its turn with karma, which again is itself an expression of the fundamental self. It is all an educative process from which nobody can escape—not even Satan himself were there such a personal devil, which philosophy does not admit, although there are evil spirits, evil beings, and evil men. All will be saved because when seen from the timeless viewpoint they are already saved.”

“We are all really on trial. Life itself is our judge with the working of karma, the ignorance or wisdom of our fellows, the voice of our conscience, and the capacities or incapacities of our personality.”

“Each of us lives at a certain time in history and occupies a certain place (or certain places) during that period. Why now and here? Look to the law of consequences for an answer, the law which connects one earthly lifetime with earlier ones.”

“We must use our combined reason and intuition, that is, intelligence, to discern the handiwork of karma in the pattern of some of the external events of our own life.”

In short, UR seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective that helps us understand the meaning of our destiny and that also serves as a practical guide for facing, with equanimity, understanding, and humility, the many challenges that daily life presents—or, more profoundly, poses—to us in all its spheres, dimensions, and consequences.