One teaching each morning from Vedanta, Yoga, Buddhism, Charvaka and the rest. The original words, what they actually mean, and what any of it has to do with your Tuesday.
Early access is open. We’re starting with the Bhagavad Gita, and all of it is free.
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥
karmany evadhikaras te ma phaleshu kadachanama karma-phala-hetur bhur ma te sango ’stv akarmani
Your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits. Don’t make the fruit your reason for acting, and don’t hold on to inaction either.
Start with the Gita. The others open one at a time, and you choose the order.
How do I act well when everything is at stake?
Bhagavad GitaOpen now
Can love alone set you free?
BhaktiComing soon
Why do we suffer, and how does it end?
BuddhismComing soon
What if this life is all there is?
CharvakaComing soon
How do I live without harming anything?
JainismComing soon
What if freedom is just recognising who you are?
Kashmir ShaivismComing soon
How can you know anything for sure?
NyayaComing soon
Are you the mind, or the one watching it?
SamkhyaComing soon
Who am I, really?
VedantaComing soon
How do I steady the mind?
YogaComing soon
The teaching arrives at the time you pick. Here’s what you do with it.
The Sanskrit, the same lines in English letters, and a translation that doesn’t read like a textbook.
How it’s meant to sound in Sanskrit, then once more in English.
One question about your own day. What you write stays yours.
Still confused? Ask Mitra, and see the exact verse behind its answer.
Each day you study earns you up to 4 ojas. Save enough and you can open whichever school you’re curious about. Miss a day and you lose nothing.
Level 3
4 ojas earned today
72 more to reach level 4
Teachings on calm build equanimity. Teachings on attention build focus.
Your call. Any school, in any order.
Ashtavakra Gita
A king and a sage talk about the self that watches
Yoga Sutras
What yoga was before it was a workout
Dhammapada
The Buddha, in short sayings you’ll remember
Ask Mitra. It answers from the texts themselves and shows you the exact verse it’s drawing on, so you can check it for yourself. Three questions a day.
I have a big review tomorrow and I can’t stop worrying about how it’ll go.
That worry about the result is exactly where the Gita begins. Krishna tells Arjuna to give everything to the work itself and loosen his grip on the outcome. Tonight, prepare fully. Then let tomorrow be tomorrow, Partha.
2 of 3 questions left today
Most of us grew up around this stuff and never really studied it. A few Gita lines, a Kabir doha from a Hindi textbook, a quote on a temple wall. That’s usually where it stops.
Which is a shame, because India has one of the longest-running arguments in the world. For centuries its schools fought over the big questions: who we are, whether there’s a God, how we can know anything, how to live. The Charvakas mocked the priests. Buddhists and Vedantins went back and forth over whether there’s a self at all. That argument is the best part, and almost nobody shows it to you.
What you find instead is either religion or fragments. Two-hour discourses, books written for scholars, a line in a reel with no context.
I wanted the thing in between. One idea a day, explained properly, from every side of the argument. Small enough to fit into a morning, and steady enough that a year in, you actually understand it, and it has quietly changed how you live. The Gita comes first because that’s where most of us start. It won’t be where we stop.
Harsh, founder
Early access is free. We let people in a few at a time, so it can take a day or two.