Wednesday, 2 September 2026
दर्शन

Darśana

philosophical seeing

The Lion in the Syllable
Sankara's bhasya on the Nrsimha-tapaniya Upanisad, where the master of the formless bows to a mantra of thirty-two syllables and proves that the ladder is not the enemy of the roof.
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If There Is No Second, Why God?
The question burns in every honest heart that has read Śaṅkara. Here is his own answer — verse by verse, bhāṣya by bhāṣya — dropped into the plain traffic of your ordinary day, until the dilemma has nowhere left to stand.
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The Charter of the Four Thrones
Śrī Śaṅkara Bhagavatpāda's Mathāmnāya-Setu or Mahānuśāsanam — the constitutional charter of the four āmnāya-maṭhas, read at once as an instrument of Dharma-governance and a map of realisation.
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Series
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Anubhūti-prakāśa, Taittirīya — verse by verse
Vidyāraṇya's versified exposition of the Taittirīya Upaniṣad's brahmavidyā — the Brahmavallī taught śloka by śloka, Śaṅkara's bhāṣya woven in as support, in Sanskrit, Telugu and English.
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Series · 12 parts
Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, verse by verse
The shortest of the Upaniṣads and, by Muktikā's verdict, sufficient by itself for liberation — twelve mantras read with Śaṅkara's bhāṣya and Gauḍapāda's Āgama-prakaraṇa kārikās, in the nine-section format.
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Rājataraṅgiṇī
The only history the colonisers would grant the name — and a deed of title to Kaśyapa's stolen valley.
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Series · 119 parts
Kaṭhopaniṣad, verse by verse
Yama teaches Naciketas the knowledge that conquers death. The Upaniṣad of the Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda, read verse by verse with Śaṅkara's bhāṣya — in Telugu, Sanskrit, and English.
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Series · 144 parts ♫ recitations
Aparokṣānubhūti, verse by verse
Śankara's pocket-sized handbook of direct realisation, read slowly - one verse a fortnight, with the bhasya tradition and a reflection in plain prose.
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Advaita and the Problem of the Witness
If consciousness is the only reality, what exactly is the "I" that knows it? A reading note on sākṣin.
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The Six Pramāṇas: A Reader's Map
What counts as a valid source of knowledge? Six classical answers, and why they matter for thinking today.
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