एकं सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति
ekaṁ sad viprā bahudhā vadanti — Ṛgveda 1.164.46The One Being the wise call by many names.
A library for living well: the scriptures of India and the saints who lived them, gathered for anyone with a life to live. Every quotation is sourced. Every disagreement is kept. Nothing is behind a login.
Start from your life, not from a book
Every other library of scripture begins with a text. This one begins with what you are carrying tonight.
Ten who lived it
Not a pantheon and not a ranking: ten people from the last two centuries who took the old texts seriously enough to be changed by them, and left instructions.
The texts behind them
Original script, transliteration, plain English, and a note on who translated what. Where the texts disagree, we say so.
Eighteen chapters on how to act when every action has consequences you cannot control.
उपनिषद्The UpanishadsHindu · Sanskrit · c. 800–200 BCEThe oldest sustained attempt to answer one question: what is actually here, underneath the world and underneath you?
திருக்குறள்ThirukkuralTamil · Thiruvalluvar · c. 1st–5th century CE1,330 couplets on virtue, wealth and love, so compressed that Tamils have argued about them for fifteen centuries.
தேவாரம் · திருவாசகம் · திவ்யப் பிரபந்தம்Tamil Bhakti — Thevaram, Thiruvasagam, Divya PrabandhamTamil · Shaiva and Vaishnava saints · 6th–9th century CEThe Nayanmars and Alvars sang God in Tamil a thousand years before anyone else sang in the vernacular, and the whole bhakti movement of India began here.
योगसूत्राणिYoga Sutras of PatanjaliHindu · Sanskrit · c. 350–450 CE195 aphorisms describing, in the register of a technical manual, what happens when you systematically quiet the mind.
धम्मपदDhammapadaBuddhist · Pali · c. 3rd century BCE423 verses of the Buddha's teaching, arranged by theme, making almost no metaphysical demands.
One line a day, in order
A path through one master or one text. Tick each day; your progress stays on your device. No prize for finishing—only the text.
Seven days to begin
One line and one small practice a day, from seven different masters, for someone who has never done any of this.
The Gita in fourteen days
Thirteen verses that carry the whole argument, one a day, with the Sanskrit, so that by the end you can hear it.
Twenty-one days with Valluvar
A kural a day, in Tamil and English, from the book Tamils swear on in court and whisper to children.
Three promises
Sourced
Every quotation links to the page it came from. Where a saying is a devotee's memory, we say so. Where we could not verify the words, we give the teaching in our own and label it.
Honest about disagreement
The Gita says the self never dies; the Dhammapada says there is no self. We put them side by side and say plainly that they differ. “All religions say the same thing” is not true, and you deserve better.
For everyone
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