Svayambodha — Recovering Self-Knowledge
The Dharampal path
Before you can know your adversary, you must know yourself. This path traces the tradition of svayambodha — self-knowledge — from its deepest metaphysical roots through the thinkers who recovered it and the school that systematized it.
Begin at the root: what actually separates Hindu and Abrahamic metaphysics — one-life vs. multiple-life cosmologies. Everything else follows from this.
AK Saran: the rare Indian sociologist who refused to think inside British intellectual frameworks, even when doing so was professionally costly.
The historian who went back to British colonial archives and proved that India had flourishing literacy, science, and industry before colonialism. Recovered data changes everything.
The school built on Dharampal's archival discoveries: India's pre-colonial self-understanding as the basis for civilizational recovery.
A review of Pankaj Saxena's book that maps the full svayambodha-śatrubodha framework — a useful synthesis and map of both traditions.