Sources & method
Source first. Many perspectives. Nothing invented.
Indian Philosophy OS is a map of ideas: questions, concepts, traditions, thinkers, texts and passages, all connected by ids in a single data model. It does not decide which tradition is right. It presents each one in its own terms, so you can understand, compare and reflect.
The source hierarchy
Every piece of content says what it is:
- Primary source The texts themselves: Upanishads, sutras, epics, scriptures.
- Traditional commentary Classical commentaries such as Shankara’s or Ramanuja’s bhashyas.
- Modern commentary Modern commentaries on primary texts, such as Swami Ramsukhdas’s Sadhak Sanjivani.
- Modern exposition Modern teachers’ own works (Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi). They are bridges, not ancient scripture.
- Editorial overview Our neutral overviews of traditions, texts, thinkers, concepts and comparisons, written from mainstream scholarship and each tradition’s self-description.
- Modern analogy Contemporary illustrations we added. They are always labelled.
What has been ingested
Of the 69 texts in the library, only the Bhagavad Gita with Sadhak Sanjivani is fully ingested. Every other text has a structured overview, its concepts and connections, and passage references where they are certain. No verses of those texts have been reproduced, translated or invented; they are marked Source not yet ingested. The data model is ready for each text’s source to be added without changing the interface.
Dates and attributions are given as ranges or as traditional attributions where scholars disagree (for example, several works traditionally attributed to Shankara).
The Bhagavad Gita module
Everything here rests on Sadhak Sanjivani, Swami Ramsukhdas Ji’s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (Gita Press, Gorakhpur), in its Hindi edition with परिशिष्ट and its English edition, Sadhaka-Sanjivani. This app is an interface over that text. It adds no philosophy of its own.
What you are reading, layer by layer
- Source · Sadhak Sanjivaniमूल · साधक-संजीवनीThe Sanskrit verse, the Hindi word meanings and translation, the सम्बन्ध (context) lines, the commentary (व्याख्या), the appendix (परिशिष्ट भाव) and the English edition’s translation and commentary. These are the book’s own words, extracted from the PDF editions.
- Summary based on Sadhak Sanjivaniसाधक-संजीवनीपर आधारित सारHeadlines, the one-line “idea”, “What is Krishna saying?”, step-by-step points, chapter overviews, concepts and answers to questions. We wrote these in simpler language as a paraphrase of what Swamiji says for that verse. Every example card quotes the commentary word for word, so you can check it.
- Modern analogy · not from the sourceआधुनिक उदाहरण · मूल ग्रन्थसे नहींOccasional contemporary illustrations (career, exams, relationships…). They are ours, not Swamiji’s. They are there only to connect a teaching to daily life, and they are always labelled.
Coverage in this version
- All 700 verses with Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, Hindi word meanings, Hindi translation and full Hindi commentary.
- 625 verses with the English edition’s translation and commentary. The rest could not be recovered reliably from the scan.
- 155 verses with the simplified learning layer. That includes every verse of Chapter 2 and the key verses of every other chapter.
Known limitations
The Hindi text was converted from a legacy font encoding and the English text was recognised from a scan, so a few words may be imperfect. In particular, some transliterated Sanskrit in the English commentary is affected. Where the two differ, the Hindi original is authoritative. Page numbers point to the printed editions so you can check the book itself.
If something is not covered in the source, the app doesn’t make it up. Verses without a simplified layer show the book’s text only.