The Door
What this wiki is
I built this wiki for myself first. You are reading it because I have begun to think it might be useful to others as well. I am Arjun, a practitioner of thirty years in the Bihar School of Yoga tradition. The pages here cross-reference the people, texts, and concepts of Sanatan Dharma that I have studied, the practices I do each morning and teach to others, and the essays I write on Substack. The wiki organises around two centres: the morning sadhana, and the broader civilisational frame the sadhana arrives from.
That is the object. The rest of this page is the foyer.
What this wiki is not
It is not an offering of the Bihar School of Yoga. The wiki is not authorised by, sponsored by, or approved by any matha, sannyasa order, or institutional body within the lineage. The mission has the blessings of my guru. The wiki is entirely my construct.
It is not a doctrinal authority. I am a householder, not a sannyasi. I have received diksha from my guru; I have not received the standing to teach the tradition. What is written here is one practitioner’s working understanding, not the lineage’s voice.
It is not a recommendation engine, a wellness product, a course, or a syllabus. Nothing on these pages is for sale.
It is not a complete reference. Many concepts in Sanatan Dharma are missing because I have not yet written about them, not because they do not matter.
It is not a finished work. The wiki will keep growing as I write, and as my understanding of specific concepts deepens with practice.
Who the wiki is for
The contemporary morning sadhana practitioner who wants to understand what she is actually practising. Not the technique alone, but what each mantra is doing, which tradition it comes from, why the sequence is the way it is.
The serious lay reader on Sanatan Dharma who wants more rigour than wellness writing offers and more accessibility than scholarly journals provide. Neither sanitised nor unreachable.
The lineage student who has received mantra diksha and now wants the institutional and philosophical context — the chain from Adi Shankaracharya through the three Saraswati paramahamsas, the Dashanami order, the place of the Bihar School inside that order.
The skeptical reader who wants to verify the scientific claims and the lineage attributions before deciding whether to take any of this seriously. The wiki invites that test.
How to read it
If you are arriving for the first time and want to understand the morning practice, read in this order: Three Mantras, Three Planes, then Your Morning Belongs To You. From there, the concept pages on Sankalpa and Three Planes.
If you are arriving with a question about a specific concept, the index and the search bar are at the top of the wiki. The concept pages are short and cross-linked, and each one points back to the essay where the concept is treated at length.
If you are arriving for the lineage, start with the page on the Saraswati Sampradaya and the chain from Adi Shankaracharya, then The River and the Riverbed.
If you are arriving skeptical, start with The Body That Outshines The Sun, then the relevant sections of Before The World Claims You. The science is named there. The references are there. Read them before reading the rest.
What I claim, and what I do not
I claim that the morning practice has produced specific changes in my own life across thirty years, and that the framework articulated here is the framework I have lived inside.
I claim that the institutional lineage from Adi Shankaracharya through the three Saraswati paramahamsas — Sivananda, Satyananda, Niranjanananda — is documented and verifiable.
I claim that the contemporary research cited in the essays is, to the best of my ability to verify it, accurate.
I do not claim that the practice will work for any specific reader.
I do not claim spiritual attainment of any kind.
I do not claim the standing to teach the tradition.
I do not claim that the synthesis between Western science and the Indian darshanic tradition offered in some of these essays is the final word on either. It is one practitioner’s working integration. The work is to keep widening it.
What is missing, and what is coming
Yoga Nidra is not yet here. The deeper Vedanta concepts are not yet here. The primary texts — Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras, the Upanishads — are not yet here. The practice manuals are not yet here. Much of the Tantric stream, and much of the broader Sanatan Dharma corpus, is not yet here.
What is most likely to come next, in no fixed order, is Yoga Nidra, the Bhagavad Gita as it sits inside the morning frame, and the Pancha Kosha model that the practice rests on. I am writing as practice deepens, not on a calendar.
If a page feels sparse, that is honest sparseness. The drop has not yet trickled there. The earth is still parched in that corner.
You are at the door. The rooms are inside.
Hari Om Tat Sat.