Twelve waysof seeing.
Six schools that accept the authority of the Vedas, and the traditions that challenged them. Each is written three ways — Simple, Detailed and Scholarly — so you can begin anywhere and go as deep as you wish.


Advaita Vedanta
What if the self you seek is already the ground of experience?

Vishishtadvaita
A unity spacious enough to preserve difference.

Dvaita Vedanta
Difference is real. Relationship is ultimate.

Samkhya
The mind changes. Is the knower of change something different?

Yoga
A disciplined inquiry into attention, habit and freedom.

Nyaya
Before asking what to believe, ask how you know.

Vaisheshika
What kinds of things must exist for a world to make sense?

Mimamsa
How do words become reasons to act?

Buddhism
What changes when we stop treating the changing as a permanent self?

Jainism
A many-sided reality. A demanding ethic of care.

Charvaka
What can we responsibly claim beyond the world we can experience?

Kashmir Shaivism
What if the world is consciousness expressing its freedom?