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  1. Store · Digital Media & Audiobooks/book/physical/premium

    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

  2. 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.

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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.

  7. 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 …

  8. 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 …

  9. 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…

  10. 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 …

  11. 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…

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