Darshana

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Folio on kevala-jñāna, the pure knowledge that liberates.

DarshanaJuly 29, 2026

Sāṃkhya: When Prakṛti Dances No More

Prakṛti the dancer performs until Puruṣa truly sees her, then stops — the Sāṃkhya path to liberation through knowledge of the twenty-five principles.

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Opening of the Śārīrabhāṣyaṭīkā on the jīva's transmigration

DarshanaJune 10, 2026

The Soul's Journey: A Commentary on the Body

What happens between one body and the next? The Śārīrabhāṣyaṭīkā — a commentary in the Vedānta tradition on the science of the body — takes up exactly that q...

From: ŚarīrabhāṣyaṭīkāRead moreeast

Opening of the Brahmāsūtra with the first aphorisms

DarshanaJune 09, 2026

Now the Inquiry into Brahman: Opening the Brahmāsūtra

The Brahmāsūtra opens with athāto brahmajijñāsā ('now, therefore, the inquiry into Brahman') and unfolds a system for understanding ultimate reality through the Upaniṣads, meditation, and reason. Bādarāyaṇa defends Brahman as the source of all being and teaches that space, breath, and light are the characteristic marks by which the supreme reveals itself to the meditator.

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Opening of the Śivasūtravimarśinī with the invocation to Śiva

DarshanaApril 10, 2026

Consciousness Is the Self: The Śivasūtra's First Word

Kṣemarāja's commentary on the Śivasūtra — a stone slab on a Himalayan mountain, a king's dream, and a philosophy that makes consciousness itself, not matter, the first principle of reality.

From: ŚivasūtravimarṣiṇīRead moreeast