# Philosophy

*Dominant thoughts and curiosities of life and mind in India.*

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Dominant thoughts and curiosities of life and mind in India.

[The darśana series](/darsana)

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-   **Vedānta** Feb 22, 2026 [The seer who saw both](/darsana/vedanta)
    
    The end of the Veda and, its teachers insist, the end of thought. One set of texts read four ways: the world as appearance, as God's body, as God's dependent, as God himself.
    
    [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind) [Beauty](/topics/beauty)
    
-   **Mīmāṃsā** Jun 15, 2025 [The act keeps its own books](/darsana/mimamsa)
    
    The school that defended the Vedic rite when the Buddhists had all but buried it: the word is older than the god, a text with no author cannot be wrong, and nobody is needed to pay out the fruit of an act.
    
    [The human experience](/topics/human)
    
-   **Vaiśeṣika** Nov 3, 2024 [An inventory of everything](/darsana/vaisheshika)
    
    Nyāya's partner: the realist's list of what there is, down to the atom, with space and time counted as things rather than gaps.
    
    [Science and technology](/topics/science)
    
-   **Nyāya** Apr 21, 2024 [Where there is smoke](/darsana/nyaya)
    
    The school of how we know and how we argue: four roads to knowledge, one shape for every inference, and a complete catalogue of the ways a losing opponent cheats.
    
    [AI and agents](/topics/agents) [Mathematics](/topics/mathematics)
    
-   **Yoga** Oct 8, 2023 [A road out of the clay](/darsana/yoga)
    
    Sāṃkhya explained how consciousness gets caught in matter, and admitted it had no way out. Patañjali's Yoga is that way: a discipline rather than a theory, and the word does not mean what the studios think it means.
    
    [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind) [The human experience](/topics/human)
    
-   **Sāṃkhya** Mar 12, 2023 [The clay before the pot](/darsana/samkhya)
    
    The oldest of the six and the one most often called scientific. Its first move is the question every creation story skips: a maker can shape a pot, but where did the clay come from?
    
    [Science and technology](/topics/science) [Yoga and the mind](/topics/mind)
    

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