Last updated 2026-07-30
Reflections on this site are rooted in the Bhagavad Gita, the principal Upanishads (including Katha, Isha, Mandukya, Chandogya, Mundaka, and Brihadaranyaka), the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and, where relevant, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Vedantic commentary.
Rather than following one fixed edition, reflections draw on widely available, well-regarded English translations of these texts. Where a piece quotes a translation directly, that source is named within the piece itself.
Sanskrit terms rarely have a single, exact English equivalent. Words like dharma, karma, and atman carry layers of meaning that any translation necessarily narrows. Where a reflection offers a translation or paraphrase, it is an interpretive rendering intended to be readable, not a scholarly critical edition.
Where we are not confident of an exact verse number or precise wording, we say so rather than presenting a guess as certain. If you are doing serious textual study, please consult a scholarly critical edition alongside anything you read here.
These reflections do not follow one fixed commentator or tradition. Where a particular teacher's or translator's reading meaningfully shapes how a piece explains a passage, that influence is named directly within the piece.