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. I have spent my adult life inside the Bihar School of Yoga tradition, as a householder rather than a sannyasi. 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 began around two centres: the morning sadhana, and the broader civilisational frame the sadhana arrives from. More recently a third strand has started to grow, the frameworks through which this tradition meets modern life. How it reads the body in the Health Balance Score Card, the daily plate in the Annamaya Index, and the screen in Yogic UX. The older knowledge, put to work in the present.

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 shopfront. A few pages describe the frameworks OMJOOMSUH is building, the reading of the body, the plate, and the screen, but they are here to explain the thinking, not to persuade or to sell. 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

We began building this wiki for one reason: to make the mantra sadhana understandable for the people who sit with us every weekday morning. So that a practitioner knows not the technique alone, but what each mantra is doing, which tradition it comes from, why the sequence is the way it is.

We are widening it now. As OMJOOMSUH has grown, the wiki has begun to hold the writings and concepts behind our weekend integrated yoga practice, and behind NEEV, our programme for women through the years of hormonal change. The door is becoming wider, because different people arrive for different reasons, with different things they need to understand.

The contemporary practitioner who wants to understand what she is actually practising in the morning, the meaning beneath the mantra and the shape of the sequence.

The woman in the weekend practice, or in NEEV, who wants to understand the body she is working with, why hormonal balance is approached the way it is, and what the practice is doing beneath the surface.

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 with interest in the body of practice itself, what is being done in the morning sadhana and how it works, read Yoga Nidra as the first concept page, then Pratyahara as the structural hinge that yoga nidra rests on, then Chakras for the subtle-body architecture beneath the whole. These three pages together describe the operating model of the human being as the lineage understands it.

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 curious about how this tradition meets modern life, read the Annamaya Index for the plate, the Health Balance Score Card for the body, and Yogic UX for the screen. These are the frameworks where the older knowledge is put to work in the present, the tradition translated rather than diluted.

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 over the years of practice, 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

Much of what was missing when this wiki began has begun to arrive. Yoga Nidra is here. Pratyahara is here. Chakras are here. Pranayama is here. Prana and the five sheaths are here. The lineage chain from Adi Shankaracharya through the three Saraswati paramahamsas is here. And the first of the applied frameworks have arrived, the Annamaya Index, the Health Balance Score Card, and Yogic UX.

Much else is still pending. The primary texts, the Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the principal Upanishads, are not yet here as their own pages. The practice manuals are not yet here. The individual chakra pages will come one at a time. The broader Tantric stream, the deeper reaches of Vedanta, and much of the wider Sanatan Dharma corpus remain to be written.

What is most likely to come next, in no fixed order: Vatavarana, the four chatushpada components of daily life (Ahara, Vihara, Achara, Vichara), the individual chakras one at a time, Kundalini, and Patanjali. 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.