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Divine Mantras of the Upanishads: 3-Volume Vinyl Boxset
… es sacred chants from the Katha, Mandukya, and Svetasvatara Upanishads, performed by world-class Hindustani classical singers in rich analog warmth, offering a meditative audio env … · $95.00
- Essay · Lord Brahma/Trimurti/free
Upanishadic identification — Sūtrātman
… — wielding the active, creative energy of *Rajas Guṇa*. The Upanishads name him *Sūtrātman*, the 'thread-soul' that runs through and binds together every individual mind.
- Essay · Foundations/Foundations/free
The Beginningless Dawn — the true origins of Sanātana Dharma
Why the tradition calls itself eternal — cyclic cosmic time (Yugas, Kalpas, Mahāpralaya), the Vedas as Apauruṣeya (unauthored) sound cognised by Rishis, and the archeo-astronomical…
- Essay · Cosmogony · Ṛgveda 10.129/Ṛgvedic/free
Nāsadīya Sūkta — the hymn of creation
A verse-by-verse reading of the Nāsadīya Sūkta — the Rishi's meditation on what preceded existence itself. From Tad Ekam (‘That One’) breathing breathlessly, through the primal des…
- Essay · Acoustics & Cosmology/Foundations/free
Nāda Brahman — the universe as sound, from AUM to the 22 śrutis
AUM read through cymatics and the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, and Nāda Brahman read through the Gandharva Veda — the seven svaras, the 22 microtonal śrutis, and a wave-first model of matter…
- Essay · Cosmogony/Comparative/free
Trimūrti — Scriptural Origins
A comparative study of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva — Vedic antecedents, Upanishadic identifications, Purāṇic narratives, and the non-dual paradigm of Kashmiri Trika Shaivism.
- Essay · Trimūrti — Scriptural Origins/Comparative/free
Viṣṇu — the three strides and the pervading consciousness
… 1.154). The name Viṣṇu derives from viṣ, 'to pervade'. The Upanishads identify Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa as Para Brahman; the Purāṇas develop Anantaśayana and the ten Daśāvatāra — Matsya, Kū …
- Essay · Vedic & Vedāntic Cosmology/Vedic & Vedāntic/free
The Devas and the Trimūrti — a stratified cosmology
Indra, Agni, Varuṇa, Sūrya, Vāyu and the other Vedic devas were once celestial sovereigns; in the Purāṇic era they appear subordinate to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. Not a replacement …
- Essay · Guru-Śiṣya Paramparā/Guru-Śiṣya Paramparā/free
Guru Pūrṇimā — the scriptural significance of the teacher
The full-moon day of Āṣāḍha honours the lineage of teachers who dispel darkness. From Veda Vyāsa the Ādi Guru of recorded knowledge, through the Mundaka and Kaṭha Upaniṣads, to Śiv…
- Essay · Esoteric Gāṇapatya/Gāṇapatya/free
The First Principle — Gaṇeśa as Omkāra and the root of consciousness
Beyond the beloved remover of obstacles: the Gaṇapati Atharvaśīrṣa reveals Gaṇeśa as the primordial sound Om itself, the visible Absolute, and the presiding deity of the Mūlādhāra …
- Essay · Astronomy & Scripture/Foundations/free
Measuring the Heavens — the speed of light and the distance to the Sun
Sāyaṇa's 14th-century commentary on a Ṛgvedic hymn to Sūrya states a velocity for sunlight that lands within one percent of the modern value for c — and the 18th verse of the Hanum…
