ANNOUNCING Pramāṇa, the most comprehensive database of Indian primary sources ever created.
Any
- text (including recensions, commentaries, commentaries on commentaries etc.)
- inscription, coin type...
- foreign text relevant to India
- digitizations of Archaeological survey this, Epigraphica XYZ, whatever
you can think of, is in here.
Everyone's rediscovering what India mapped 3,000 years ago.
Neuroscience just spent 30 years arriving at the questions Upanishads started with.
Self as construct.
Attention as reality.
Mind as prediction.
Reading list that rewires how you see your own mind;
🕉️ANCIENT
• Ṛigveda: Nāsadīya Sūkta, Puruṣa Sūkta
• Yajurveda: Śrī Rudram (Taittirīya Saṃhitā)
• Upanishads: Bṛhadāraṇyaka, Chāndogya, Māṇḍūkya (+ Gauḍapāda Kārikā), Kaṭha, Īśā, Kena, Praśna, Muṇḍaka, Taittirīya, Aitareya, Śvetāśvatara
• Sāṃkhya Kārikā
• Patañjali: Yoga Sūtras
• Buddhist: Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta, Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā
• Śaṅkara: BS Bhāṣya (adhyāsa-bhāṣya), Vivekacūḍāmaṇi, Upadeśasāhasrī, Atma/TattvaBodha
• Kashmir Śaivism: Abhinavagupta's Tantrāloka, Utpaladeva's Īśvarapratyabhijñā Kārikā
⚛️ MODERN
Consciousness
• Tononi & Koch (2015)
• Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain
• Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
• Dennett, Consciousness Explained
• Metzinger, Being No One
The predictive mind
• Seth, Being You
• Friston, The Free-Energy Principle
• Clark, Surfing Uncertainty
Self & wandering
• Buckner et al., The Brain's Default Network
• Andrews-Hanna (2012)
Emotion & body
• Damasio, Descartes' Error
• LeDoux, The Emotional Brain
• Porges, The Polyvagal Theory
• Cryan et al., The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis
Save this. You'll thank yourself later. 🔖
When I warned you (in January) that 2026 ignites and begins an aggressive period of Karmic Debt Collection, it wasn’t a mere philosophical abstraction.
We are witnessing the materialization of that reality day by day. Look closely at the precise energetic signatures behind these recent occurrences.
The invisible enemy is moving, but the divine containment protocols are executing flawlessly. Asuri energies wanted to witness an Ugra Devi show her true force, and they will realize that the shield protecting Dharma is active, absolute, and multidimensional.
1. The Chicago Intervention: The matrix of protection is not confined by geopolitical borders; it extends wherever the roots of Sanatana Dharma run deep.
In the greater Chicago area, a heavily armed white supremacist, equipped with an AR-style rifle and 300 rounds of ammunition, targeted a crowded Hindu temple with the explicit intent of orchestrating a mass casualty event.
The attack was averted by a single, inexplicable mechanical failure: the killer’s rifle jammed.
This did not happen in a vacuum. This cosmic intervention manifested precisely during Navratri, the sacred window when the primordial energy of Adishakti is fully invoked and heightened globally. When the weapons of the dark matrix encounter the dense, protective field of the Divine Mother, physical laws bend.
The rifle did not just jam; it was frozen by the supreme command of Durga. Dharma won because the shield was absolute.
2. The Badiyakot Devi Mandir: The devastating blaze at the ancient wooden Devi Temple in Badiyakot (the sacred site where Maa Bhagvati slayed the Asura Nishumbh) is being misread by the masses.
The narrative that a locked temple, closed by the priest who left no earthen lamps burning, simply caught fire at dawn is an insult to logic.
This was a hidden, manufactured action by invisible enemies.
Look at the physical geometry of the event. The temple was engulfed in a ferocious, concentrated inferno in the dead of night. Yet, the intense raging fire and radiating heat remained supernaturally trapped within the compound.
Despite being surrounded by dense forest, the fire did not cross the spiritual boundary of the mandir. The surrounding wilderness and nearby lives were completely untouched.
The Ugra Devi did not just absorb the attack; she contained it within her own home, turning an intended ecological and human catastrophe into a closed loop of karmic combustion.
3. The Resurrection in Varahamula (Baramulla, Kashmir): Simultaneously, as the physical structures face friction, the deepest spiritual anchors of the land are forcefully rising back into the physical plane.
A sacred, 500-year-old Shivling has been officially restored and resurrected in Baramulla, Kashmir.
This is not just a routine archaeological restoration. The true puranic name of this geography is Varahamula (the base/root of the Varaha Avatar), the precise location where Shri Vishnu struck the mountains to drain the primeval Satisaras lake and make the valley habitable for humanity.
The resurrection of Shiva lingam at the very root-source of Kashmir’s creation is a monumental cosmic alignment. It signals that the ancient spiritual grid of the North, which was forcefully suppressed, is actively breaking through the density of the material world to reclaim its ground.
No matter how much systemic chaos, hidden arson, or manufactured global turbulence unfolds, Bharat remains eternally anchored and protected.
The protectors are fully awake.
• Mahadev guards the absolute heights of the North.
• Shakti fortifies the East.
• Kartikeya (Murugan) secures the gates of the South.
• Vinayaka (Ganesha) anchors the foundation of the West.
Behind this outer quadrant lies the hidden grid of the divine daughters: Devi Ashokasundari acting as the national shock-absorber of civilizational grief, and Devi Jyoti cutting through covert conspiracies with the blinding light of the Vel. (read quote tweet for in depth info)
Every attempt to fracture this geography will only trigger an equal and opposite acceleration of cosmic realignment.
Stand firm in your practice. Stay grounded, and always Discern.
The shield is active. Jai Hind. 🇮🇳
Namo Narayana 🙏🏽
I’ve lived in ashrams across India for 7 years.
From Kerala’s backwaters to the Himalayan foothills.
Here are 15 ashrams that taught me there is no single path to liberation.
(🛏️ = can stay | 🍛 = food available)
PATH OF DEVOTION
1. Amritapuri: Bhakti, Bhajans, Seva, Music 🛏️🍛
2. Kainchi Dham: Hanuman, love, foothill of himalays
3.Sree Subhanandasramam: Bhakti, universal love, advaita 🛏️🍛
4. Parmarth Niketan: Yoga, devotion, Ganga, Shiva, Bhajans🛏️🍛
PATH OF KNOWLEDGE
5. Sri Ramanasramam: Self-Enquiry, Arunachala foothills, Meditation only 🍛
6.Arsha Vidya Gurukulam: Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta mostly. 🍛
7. Swami Dayananda Ashram: Reasoning/Contemplation, Scripture's inquiry 🍛
PATH OF DISCIPLINE
8. Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram: Yoga, meditation, Vedanta and structured daily routine.🛏️🍛
9. Isha Yoga Center: Yoga, Meditation, Bhairavi/Bhairava,VBT, Small Tantras 🛏️🍛
10. Art of Living: Breathwork, meditation, yoga, bhajans, music, food, Devotion🛏️🍛
11. Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Math: Kriya Yoga, meditation and devotion🛏️🍛
PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
12. Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Yoga, self enquiry, community, slef enquiry, bhajans🛏️🍛
13.Santhigiri Ashram: Sri Narayana guru, bhakti, devotion🛏️🍛
14. Belur Math: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda tradition, Vedanta, practice, interfaith, sevas.🍛
What 7 years taught me:
Some people find God through love.
Some through inquiry.
Some through discipline.
Some through service.
None of them are wrong.
Our spiritual heritage is too vast to reduce to one guru, one doctrine or one path.
Have you stayed in any of the Ashrams? If not, which would you pick first.
One thing I will repeat that if a real Devata gives you darshan in a form you can see with EYES OPEN, this is 1: highly unusual,
2: will occur maybe only few times in your lifetime
3: the Devata will give that sadhaka something which lasts the entire life (not material usually BUT something else ).
Some people keep thinking that the Devata can be impersonated by some Demon.
This of course is possible, but that point 3 above never happens with a Demon/ entity because high level spiritual attainment is OUT of their reach or control.
Only two entities can take near same form of a Devata : it can be a Yakshini or a Yogini BUT even there the sadhaka will be able to distinguish between them plus the high level Yakshini or Yogini will tell you who they are… a Yakshini or Yogini.
Yogini darshan is exceptionally rare nowadays as no mantras exist for them but that’s not a bar for a good sadhaka.
Yakshini is effectively giving result more than a Devata because they will fulfil every wish but one should be careful of getting entrapped asking for sensual pleasure. If you treat them like a mother..they can introduce you to the Devata they surround (or to whose retinue they belong).
👇🏻
Demons are different and a good sadhaka should be able to unmask one easily using one of the traditional incantations related to Nrisimha /Sudarshan.
This is basic practical application of knowledge in Dakshin marga.
at his ancient school in croton, pythagoras made his students follow a nightly ritual to remember everything they learned and consolidate it during sleep. today it's known as the pythagorean sandwich.
top: before sleep, go over everything you learned that day.
middle: sleep. your subconscious keeps replaying the information you worked on last during the day.
bottom: upon waking, before you get out of bed, recall it all again from memory.
Every Navratri the same news comes from Gujarat. Condom sales go up during Garba. People forward it like a joke. I don't find it funny, I find it sad. Because most of the people dancing have no idea what they are dancing around.
Garba comes from garbha. गर्भ. The womb.
In the centre of the circle sits a clay pot full of small holes, with a diya burning inside it. This is the garbha deep, the lamp in the womb. The pot is the body. The flame is the Devi who lives inside every being. And we go round and round it, slow in the start, then faster and faster, while the centre doesn't move at all. Everything around Her keeps spinning, She stays still. Time is a circle in our tradition and Garba simply dances that truth.
Tradition says this dance began as Maa Parvati's own lasya. She taught it to Usha, Usha taught the gopis of Dwarka, and from them it reached the women of Saurashtra. Women danced it with that lit pot on their heads, singing to Amba through the night. It was a prayer done with the feet.
The Devi Bhagavata, while describing the Navratri vrata, says the daily worship should end with dancing, singing and music. So yes, dance here is puja. Same text asks the one keeping the vrata to sleep on the ground for all 9 nights, and to worship little girls as forms of the Devi. The Saptashati says it even more plainly. Every woman in every world is Her form.
So by the logic of this festival, the girl dancing next to you in that circle is not an opportunity. She is the same Devi you came to worship.
Now about sin, since people keep asking.
Navratri is a vrata. The smritis are clear that sexual indulgence destroys the fruit of a fast. The Vishnu Purana goes further. On Ashtami, Chaturdashi, Amavasya and Purnima, even a married man is told to stay away from his own wife and spend the day in worship. One who doesn't, it says, falls into a hell where filth becomes his food. Maha Ashtami sits right inside Navratri, and it is just few days away. If the shastra pauses even a sacred marriage on that day, think what it says about a hotel room booked between two aartis.
I am not writing this to shame anyone, specially the young ones. Desire is not the enemy in Sanatan Dharma. In the Gita, Krishna says the desire which is not against dharma, that is Him. The same Gita calls kama a gate to hell. The only difference is dharma. Right time, right place, right relation.
Garba never asked anyone to kill desire. It asks you to hold it the way that pot holds the flame. Inside. Steady. Giving light, not burning the house down.
Even UNESCO, when it listed Garba in 2023, called it a ritual and devotional dance for Shakti. Outsiders understood it. Some of us forgot.
So tonight when you step into the circle, look at the centre first. A lamp is burning inside a womb of clay. That is Her. Look long enough and you will see, that is you also.
Jai Ambe.
Whatever he is saying is pretty much inaccurate as far as Saptashati is concerned.
I did not get Saptashati Durga from Guru mukha but I had visions of the Goddess long before I ever started any sadhana > 30 years ago (a few people here know about this and I don’t talk about it anymore but in this case it is important to understand that Devi can choose anybody how so ever tiny like me and transform them with ease).
I started doing Saptashati, slowly and painstakingly and I got superb results from it (I might have done Sahasra Chandi homas a few times in my life and at one time I even did Chandi homas for a full year for one particular person in politics also).
The person’s (in QT) statement is Inaccurate because I have personally taught so many people and many of those who followed the rules got some benefit from it (some who didn’t follow rules also got benefit).
So at least as far as Durga Saptashati and any Pouranic stotra is concerned, it is safe to do.
Yes, you should learn pronunciation well.
Now… one more big point I should make:
Not everyone can become spiritual in one lifetime and to become spiritual… one is likely to get some or more pain and suffering in that life.
So … it’s important to understand that the Devi of Saptashati is extremely Ugra and while people’s understanding is that they should get all white goods, car, house and cash (and if possible nice woman or man)… the Devata views this as nonsense and sees your life as ephemeral … gone in a blink of an eye and She sees that death will be at your door soon and so like any good Mother, She attempts to cut your attachments in one go with that huge Khadga of Hers. And the speed at which She does things is like the charge of a full grown lion (hence seated on a lion) so She knows that you will lose everything at Death and attempts to give you that understanding which will make you free quite soon BUT most people don’t like that transformation.
So … if one sits in the kitchen, one should be prepared to take some heat also.
Of course if She wills it, entire empires can rise or fall.
Bas itnahi.
Mahadev.
IT IS OFFICIAL. 💥
PFIZER HAS JUST PUBLISHED THE LIST OF POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS
OF ITS «COVID VACCINE». 💥
IT IS A CRIME!
1) Blood clots,
2) Acute kidney injury,
3) Acute flaccid myelitis,
4) Positive antibodies against sperm,
5) Brainstem embolism,
6) Brainstem thrombosis,
7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
8) Heart failure,
9) Thrombosis of the heart chamber...
10) Cardiogenic shock,
11) Vasculitis of the central nervous system,
12) Death of newborns,
13) Deep vein thrombosis,
14) Brainstem encephalitis,
15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,
17) Epileptic psychosis,
18) Facial neuropathy,
19) Fetal distress syndrome,
20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizures,
22) Hashimoto's encephalopathy,
23) Vascular thrombosis of the liver,
24) Reactivation of shingles,
25) *Reactivation of cancer...
26) "Turbo"-cancer,
27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,
28) Interstitial lung disease,
29) Embolism of the jugular veins,
30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
31) Liver damage,
32) Low birth weight,
34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
35) Myocarditis,
36) Seizures in newborns,
37) Pancreatitis,
38) Pneumonia,
39) Stillbirth,
40) Tachycardia,
41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,
43) Autoimmune disease of the testes,
44) Thrombotic stroke,
45) Type-1 diabetes mellitus,
46) Venous thrombosis in newborns,
47) Thrombosis of the vertebral artery,
48) Pericarditis,
49) Sudden infant death syndrome.
SEVERE CONSEQUENCES of a so-called vaccine that neither protects against the disease, nor against its transmission or severe courses!
People either overestimate the Śāstras as modern physics or dismiss them as dogma.
Here is my balanced take on how to navigate them via a rigorous dependency graph of formal grammar, epistemology, logic & peer-reviewed debate, being a student for more than 2 decades.
3,000 साल पहले एक कवि ने ऐसा सवाल पूछा… जिसका जवाब शायद भगवान के पास भी न हो!
The ancient Vedic hymn known as the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rigveda explores how the universe began—and ends with a startling possibility perhaps even the supreme observer knows, or perhaps not. 🙏