HINDUISM · IN DEPTH
Learn with Nachiketa, Shvetaketu, Maitreyi and Gargi. Follow their questions, the answers they receive and the examples that make difficult ideas accessible.
What remains valuable when wealth cannot answer a question? Can something unseen still matter? Who is the knower behind an experience? These dialogues turn such questions into a sustained inquiry, using a chariot, clay, seeds, salt and the image of a woven world.
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IntermediateFollow Katha Upanishad 1.1–1.3 from a troubled gift to Yama Deva’s teaching about the deathless Self.
Learning outcome: Explain every boon, reconstruct Nachiketa’s refusal of substitutes, and map the chariot accurately while relating it to Yama Deva’s larger teaching.
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IntermediateStudy the connected argument of Chandogya Upanishad 6: what a learned student still needs to know, how effects depend on their source, and why an unseen ground can be present throughout life.
Learning outcome: Reconstruct the dialogue, locate clay at 6.1.4, the seed at 6.12 and salt at 6.13, and explain both the force and limits of each analogy.
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IntermediateFollow the inquiry in Brihadaranyaka 2.4 alongside its fuller telling in 4.5.
Learning outcome: Distinguish the two tellings, explain Maitreyi’s objection about consciousness, and reconstruct the argument without turning self-knowledge into selfishness or annihilation.
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IntermediateFollow Gargi Vachaknavi’s two interventions in Brihadaranyaka 3.6 and 3.8.
Learning outcome: Separate the two interventions, explain the change in Gargi’s questioning, and distinguish akasha from akshara while following the negative and positive descriptions of the Imperishable.
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