Learning paths
From beginner to serious study.
I know nothing about Indian philosophy
A gentle first walk through the big ideas that recur across Indian thought, anchored in the Bhagavad Gita. By the end you will know the core vocabulary and be ready to explore the individual schools.
How do we know something is true?→Gita 2.7→Dharma→Gita 3.35→Karma→Gita 2.47→Who am I?→Gita 2.13→Yoga→Moksha — liberation→Bhakti — devotion→Gita 9.26→Vedanta→Sankhya→25 Tattvas Explorer→Buddhist philosophy→Jain philosophy→Many-Sided Reality
Understanding God
A tour of how Indian traditions conceive of the Divine, beginning with the Gita and the Upanishads and moving through devotional, Vedantic, Shaiva, Shakta and Sikh understandings. Each step is presented on its own terms, without ranking.
Gita 7.7→Gita 9.4→Gita 15.17→Shvetashvatara Upanishad→Brahman→Bhakti — devotion→Bhagavata Purana→Vishishtadvaita Vedanta→Dvaita Vedanta→Shaivism→Pati, Pashu, Pasha — Lord, soul, bond→Shaktism→Devi Mahatmya→Sikh philosophy (Gurmat)→Hukam
Understanding the mind
How Indian traditions map the mind and train it, from the Gita's practice and dispassion to Sankhya's model, Patanjali's Yoga, Hatha Yoga's breath and body, and Buddhist meditation. It shows both shared techniques and different views of what lies beyond the mind.
Gita 6.34→Gita 6.35→Gita 6.19→Sankhya→Buddhi — intellect→25 Tattvas Explorer→Yoga Sutras of Patanjali→Chitta — mind-field→Samadhi→Hatha Yoga Pradipika→Pranayama→Buddhist philosophy
Who am I?
A path through the texts that make the question 'Who am I?' their centre, from the Gita and Upanishads to Advaita manuals and Ramana Maharshi. It follows mainly the Advaita line of interpretation and closes with a contrast from Buddhism so the alternative is visible.
Gita 2.13→Gita 2.20→Gita 13.1→Katha Upanishad→Mandukya Upanishad→Brihadaranyaka Upanishad→Neti neti — not this, not this→Tattva Bodha→Vivekachudamani→Ashtavakra Gita→Ramana Maharshi→Who Am I? (Nan Yar)→Anatta (Anatman)
Interactive explainers
25 Tattvas Explorer
See the Sankhya model of reality unfold, from purusha and prakriti to the elements.
Many-Sided Reality
The Jain teaching of anekantavada and syadvada, one viewpoint at a time.
How do we know something is true?
Nyaya’s means of valid knowledge — perception, inference, comparison, testimony.
Within the Bhagavad Gita
Sadhak SanjivaniI am new to the Gita
मैं गीतामें नया हूँ
Nine short steps through the heart of the Gita as Sadhak Sanjivani explains it — from Arjuna's confusion to the teaching of liberation.
साधक-संजीवनीके अनुसार गीताके सारमें नौ छोटे कदम — अर्जुनकी उलझनसे मुक्तिके उपदेशतक।
9 steps
The path of Karma Yoga
कर्मयोगका मार्ग
How ordinary work — a job, studies, family duties — becomes a path to freedom, step by step as Swamiji explains it.
रोज़का काम — नौकरी, पढ़ाई, पारिवारिक कर्तव्य — कैसे मुक्तिका मार्ग बनता है, स्वामीजीकी व्याख्याके अनुसार क्रमसे।
6 steps
The path of devotion
भक्तिका मार्ग
From accepting 'I am God's' to complete surrender — the way of devotion as Sadhak Sanjivani presents it.
'मैं भगवान्का हूँ' यह स्वीकार करनेसे पूर्ण शरणागतितक — साधक-संजीवनीके अनुसार भक्तिका मार्ग।
6 steps