Concepts Dissected

You use these words every day.

Karma. Dharma. Yoga. Guru. Shakti. They are in your conversations, on your social feeds, in the names of studios and brands and wellness products and self-help books. You inherited them, adopted them, repeated them.

Nobody told you what they actually mean.
Not because the meanings were lost. Because the originals were inconvenient. A word that demands something of you is harder to sell than one that makes you feel located, spiritual, or absolved. So the meanings were softened, shortened, and eventually replaced with something more comfortable and considerably less true.

This series takes the most used Sanskrit concepts in the Hindu and Vedic tradition and reads them as they were defined. Not as the modern world borrowed them. Not as the wellness industry repackaged them. As the original words, in their original philosophical context, with their original precision intact.

Some of what you find here will unsettle what you thought you understood. That is not incidental. These were never casual words. They were instruments. What they were designed to do has nothing to do with what most people are using them for.

What you do with that gap is entirely your concern.