A handbook of Sanatana Dharma · nineteen evenings by a lamp
What if the universe never began?
Explore the timeless wisdom of Sanatana Dharma and find answers to life’s biggest questions. Every teaching sourced, every claim labelled, doubts kept.
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Curated answers to spark your curiosity. Every door lands on a real answer, with its sources shown.
Does God have a form? 
What happens after death? 
Why is there suffering? 
Does science support consciousness? 
Can karma be changed? Myth vs reality
Let’s clear up some common misconceptions.
Hindus worship 33 million gods.
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You are what you repeat
“As is your desire, so is your will; as is your will, so is your deed; as is your deed, so is your destiny.” — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5. The oldest behavioural loop on record. There is an industry cutting your grooves for you, fifteen seconds at a time. Tap each link.
This week's round · from the Debate Hall
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Rule 1
Everything I teach you, I will show you where it is written.
Rule 2
We will always say plainly whether a thing is a teaching, a practice, or a resonance.
Rule 3
We will never pretend a poem is a proof — the poems are magnificent enough without pretending.
Don't just read it — play it
The Game Room
Dispel maya-forms with viveka, answer the rishis, reach the gate.
The Vigil fight your own angerYour six inner enemies, wearing the demon shapes the old stories gave them.
The Myth Hunt catch the claimFour honest sentences carrying one that claims too much. Find it.
A ball in a dark drum with one way out. Forty-five seats and one right map. Gears that keep cosmic time. A rope with two teams on it. Fourteen rings up the mountain. New boards every day.
The reckoning
Why do Indian festivals fall on different days in different places?
Your cousin in New Jersey kept Diwali on a Tuesday. You kept it on a Wednesday. Neither of you got it wrong. Diwali asks for Amavasya at nightfall, and nightfall is yours alone. There is a real answer here, it is arithmetic, and you can watch it work.
Every festival, what it is for, the day it falls on at your own latitude, and the rule that decided it. Diwali needs the dark moon at nightfall. Shivaratri needs it at the middle of the night. Open any date and the arithmetic is there.
five limbs, from scratch The panchangam for your own skyTithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, karana, with sunrise, sunset, the horas and the muhurtas. Computed from the Sun's and the Moon's places for your coordinates. No central meridian, no lookup tables, and every line shows its working.
when may this be done Muhurta, for the people it is forA wedding, a thread ceremony, moving into a house. Give the act and the birth stars of the people, and it hands back the next days that hold, and the hour on each of them. Read off one book, with the page on it.
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Nineteen evenings by a lamp
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