{ "metadata": { "schema": "org.dharma-open-school.open-study-pack.v1", "publisher": "Dharma Open School by Aniruddha Dāsa", "canonicalUrl": "https://dharmaopenschool.com", "contentLastModified": "2026-08-26", "edition": "school research edition", "collection": "Scripture research courses", "recordCount": 4, "provenance": "SCHOOL_RESEARCH_EDITION", "reuseNotice": "Free to download for personal study and teaching preparation. No separate open licence is asserted for editorial research-edition text; retain provenance and check permissions before redistribution or adaptation." }, "courses": { "srimad-bhagavatam": { "orientation": "A twelve-canto research course organised around narrators, questions, genre, argument and devotional response. It does not reproduce a modern copyrighted translation; each unit sends the learner to an identified edition and asks for a source record.", "sourceLabel": "Vedabase · Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam library and canto index", "sourceHref": "https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/", "units": [ { "title": "Canto 1 · Questions, departure and the hearing frame", "inquiry": "Why is the Bhāgavatam spoken, to whom, and under what pressure?", "study": "Map the sages and Sūta frame, Parīkṣit’s crisis, the appearance and departure narratives, and the turn toward sustained hearing.", "make": "A two-level narrator–audience map with chapter references." }, { "title": "Canto 2 · Hearing, remembrance and cosmic orientation", "inquiry": "How does the answer move from urgent practice to accounts of creation?", "study": "Track Śuka’s response to Parīkṣit, the universal-form orientation, concise Bhāgavatam, questions about creation and the four seed verses.", "make": "A question–answer chain ending in one carefully sourced cosmology diagram." }, { "title": "Canto 3 · Vidura, Maitreya, creation and Kapila", "inquiry": "How do narrative journey, cosmology and philosophical instruction interact?", "study": "Separate the Vidura–Maitreya frame, creation sequences, Varāha narrative, Kardama and Devahūti, and Kapila’s instruction.", "make": "A genre map marking narrative, genealogy, cosmology and teaching." }, { "title": "Canto 4 · Dakṣa, Dhruva, Pṛthu and the Pracetās", "inquiry": "How do offence, ambition, governance and transformation unfold through distinct lives?", "study": "Follow the Dakṣa conflict, Dhruva’s motive and change, Pṛthu’s kingship and the allegorical and devotional instruction surrounding the Pracetās.", "make": "A four-character motive–turning point–instruction comparison." }, { "title": "Canto 5 · Priyavrata, Ṛṣabhadeva, Bharata and cosmography", "inquiry": "How should ethical instruction, biography and cosmographic description be read without flattening genre?", "study": "Keep royal duty, Ṛṣabhadeva’s instruction, Bharata’s three lives, geographic-cosmographic description and hell narratives in separate interpretive frames.", "make": "A reading protocol naming genre, claim type and questions for expert review." }, { "title": "Canto 6 · Ajāmila, Citraketu and contested duty", "inquiry": "What happens when judgement, the divine name, grief and offence meet?", "study": "Map the Ajāmila debate, Dakṣa’s descendants, Indra and Vṛtrāsura, and Citraketu’s grief, instruction and later conflict.", "make": "A debate table listing speakers, claims, evidence and outcome." }, { "title": "Canto 7 · Hiraṇyakaśipu, Prahlāda and social instruction", "inquiry": "How does devotion operate under hostility and within ordinary social life?", "study": "Sequence the conflict and protection narrative, Prahlāda’s teachings, Nṛsiṁha’s appearance and the later discussions of conduct and social orders.", "make": "A narrative-pressure map plus one teaching case with source boundaries." }, { "title": "Canto 8 · Gajendra, churning, Vāmana and cycles of rule", "inquiry": "How do helpless prayer, cooperation, divine intervention and cosmic cycles relate?", "study": "Distinguish the manvantara frame, Gajendra narrative, ocean-churning sequence, Bali and Vāmana, and later avatāra accounts.", "make": "A cause–request–intervention–response storyboard for one narrative." }, { "title": "Canto 9 · Dynasties and the Rāma narrative", "inquiry": "What does genealogy accomplish between cosmology and the Kṛṣṇa narrative?", "study": "Follow selected solar and lunar lines, identify compressed narratives and study the Rāma section without treating the canto as a substitute for the Rāmāyaṇa.", "make": "A limited lineage diagram with every omitted branch explicitly marked." }, { "title": "Canto 10 · Kṛṣṇa narrative in ninety chapters", "inquiry": "How do Vraja, Mathurā and Dvārakā movements form one sustained theological narrative?", "study": "Divide the canto into defensible narrative arcs, track location and speaker changes, and distinguish event sequence from later illustrative retelling.", "make": "A twelve-scene macro-storyboard with chapter ranges and provenance labels." }, { "title": "Canto 11 · Departure, instruction and the Uddhava dialogue", "inquiry": "How does teaching intensify as the Yadu narrative approaches its close?", "study": "Track the Yadu frame, Nimi and the Yogendras, Uddhava’s questions, the avadhūta’s teachers, practice, knowledge and the final departure sequence.", "make": "A thematic index connecting five questions to exact chapter ranges." }, { "title": "Canto 12 · Decline, succession and the work’s conclusion", "inquiry": "How does the final canto connect historical decline, mortality, hearing and textual praise?", "study": "Separate future dynasties, symptoms of Kali, Parīkṣit’s final event, Mārkaṇḍeya’s vision and the concluding summary and glorification.", "make": "A final whole-work map showing frame closure and unresolved study questions." } ], "assessment": [ "Name the primary narrator frames without notes.", "Classify five sampled passages by genre before interpreting them.", "Trace one question through at least three cantos with exact references.", "Teach one bounded passage while naming source, edition and synthesis." ] }, "sri-isopanisad": { "orientation": "An eighteen-mantra close-reading course. The unit groupings are study aids, not claims that the text itself announces these sections. Learners compare identified editions and keep paired Sanskrit terms visible.", "sourceLabel": "Vedabase · Śrī Īśopaniṣad source pages", "sourceHref": "https://vedabase.io/en/library/iso/", "units": [ { "title": "Invocation and mantra 1 · Whole, dwelling and use", "inquiry": "What relationships among completeness, indwelling, acceptance and non-coveting are established?", "study": "Record the invocation separately from mantra 1. Mark pronouns, imperatives and the interpretive choices carried by āvāsyam, tyaktena and bhuñjīthā.", "make": "A three-translation comparison with no anonymous merged rendering." }, { "title": "Mantras 2–3 · Action, life and destructive trajectories", "inquiry": "How is action placed inside a full human life, and what warning follows?", "study": "Trace verbs, agent and result. Compare how editions connect mantra 2 to mantra 1 and resist treating “action” as one undifferentiated category.", "make": "A claim–condition–result diagram." }, { "title": "Mantras 4–8 · Movement, distance and the seer’s vision", "inquiry": "How can apparently opposed descriptions function together?", "study": "List every paired or paradoxical expression before resolving it. Track the movement from description of the One to the vision and conduct of the seer.", "make": "A paradox table with grammatical observations and two interpretive options." }, { "title": "Mantras 9–11 · Vidyā and avidyā", "inquiry": "What different results are heard, and what does knowing both together mean?", "study": "Do not translate the pair once and reuse it automatically. Compare each occurrence, its instrumental form and the result attached to it.", "make": "A term–verse–result matrix." }, { "title": "Mantras 12–14 · Sambhūti and asambhūti", "inquiry": "How does the second paired warning resemble and differ from the first?", "study": "Track textual variants and edition choices explicitly. Compare structure before importing a doctrinal equation for either term.", "make": "A parallel-layout chart for 9–11 and 12–14 with differences highlighted." }, { "title": "Mantras 15–18 · Four closing prayers", "inquiry": "How do covering, vision, remembrance, fire and guidance shape the ending?", "study": "Identify addressee, request and self-description in each prayer. Notice the sequence without claiming a single psychological stage unless the evidence supports it.", "make": "A four-prayer liturgical map and a spoken teach-back." } ], "assessment": [ "Recite the eighteen-mantra structural map.", "Explain one paired term without hiding translation differences.", "Compare two identified commentarial readings of one mantra.", "Teach the four closing prayers as a sequence with exact source labels." ] }, "nectar-of-instruction": { "orientation": "An eleven-verse practice course following the text from regulation of urges through association and practice to Vraja and Rādhā-kuṇḍa. Modern translations and purports remain on their identified source site.", "sourceLabel": "Vedabase · Nectar of Instruction", "sourceHref": "https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/", "units": [ { "title": "Verse 1 · Governing six urges", "inquiry": "What is restrained, and what qualification is connected to that restraint?", "study": "List the six urges and observe how speech, mind, anger and bodily appetite form a practical field rather than a hierarchy of shame.", "make": "A private trigger–pause–alternative practice sheet." }, { "title": "Verses 2–3 · Six obstacles and six supports", "inquiry": "How do paired lists diagnose practice without becoming slogans?", "study": "Compare each obstacle with plausible supporting alternatives. Preserve the Sanskrit list terms and avoid inventing one-to-one pairs the verses do not state.", "make": "A twelve-cell weekly audit with one chosen experiment." }, { "title": "Verse 4 · Six exchanges of affection", "inquiry": "What makes spiritual relationship reciprocal and embodied?", "study": "Classify giving, receiving, revealing, hearing and shared food. Ask what consent, trust and boundary look like in each exchange.", "make": "A relationship map that includes safe limits and reciprocity." }, { "title": "Verses 5–6 · Honour, association and vision", "inquiry": "How are levels of relationship described, and how is material vision corrected?", "study": "Separate recognition, respect, service, intimate association and the instruction not to reduce a devotee to bodily defect.", "make": "Three realistic cases with proportionate responses and no public ranking." }, { "title": "Verses 7–8 · Taste, practice and residence", "inquiry": "How do repeated practice, gradual taste and absorbed remembrance connect?", "study": "Track the medical comparison in verse 7 and the concentrated practical instruction in verse 8. Label metaphor, prescription and later application.", "make": "A seven-day attention practice with evidence and revision." }, { "title": "Verses 9–11 · Sacred-place progression", "inquiry": "What evaluative sequence culminates in Rādhā-kuṇḍa, and on what stated grounds?", "study": "Map each place and comparison exactly as the verses present it. Keep geographic orientation separate from the text’s devotional valuation.", "make": "A sourced place ladder plus a responsible-visit reflection." } ], "assessment": [ "Retrieve all six urges, obstacles, supports and exchanges.", "Apply one list to a case without judging another person.", "Explain the movement from regulation to relationship to place.", "Teach one verse with Sanskrit term, source link, practice and boundary." ] }, "nectar-of-devotion": { "orientation": "A structural introduction to Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu and the English study work commonly titled Nectar of Devotion. This course teaches navigation, terminology and classification without reproducing copyrighted prose.", "sourceLabel": "Vedabase · Nectar of Devotion", "sourceHref": "https://vedabase.io/en/library/nod/", "units": [ { "title": "Unit 1 · Identify the work and editions", "inquiry": "Which text, translation, summary or commentary are you actually reading?", "study": "Record Sanskrit work title, division and wave when available. Distinguish Rūpa Gosvāmī’s verses, cited authorities, a translator’s rendering and explanatory prose.", "make": "An edition and provenance card." }, { "title": "Unit 2 · The ocean structure", "inquiry": "How do eastern, southern, western and northern divisions organise the inquiry?", "study": "Build a four-division map and attach wave names from the edition being used. Treat the map as navigation rather than a substitute for reading.", "make": "A four-quadrant structure diagram with source locations." }, { "title": "Unit 3 · Definition and characteristics of pure bhakti", "inquiry": "Which words carry the definition, and what exclusions or positive orientation do they establish?", "study": "Study the Sanskrit definition in context, compare identified renderings and keep each grammatical relation visible before paraphrasing.", "make": "A definition map with direct text, translation choices and synthesis." }, { "title": "Unit 4 · Sādhana-bhakti and its practices", "inquiry": "How are practice, eligibility and limbs of devotion organised?", "study": "Distinguish general definition, vaidhī and rāgānugā discussions, lists of practices and especially emphasised practices.", "make": "A taxonomy plus one modest, reviewable practice plan." }, { "title": "Unit 5 · Bhāva and prema", "inquiry": "How are advanced states defined and evidenced without casual self-diagnosis?", "study": "Record definitions, characteristics, causes and transitions as the source presents them. Do not turn descriptions into status claims about living people.", "make": "A comparison table with a prominent “not a self-certification tool” boundary." }, { "title": "Unit 6 · Rasa vocabulary", "inquiry": "What is gained and lost when rasa is translated simply as emotion?", "study": "Build a glossary for sthāyi-bhāva, vibhāva, anubhāva, sāttvika-bhāva and vyabhicāri-bhāva using one identified scholarly or traditional edition.", "make": "A relational diagram that shows combination rather than a list." }, { "title": "Unit 7 · Primary relationships", "inquiry": "How are śānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya discussed as devotional relationships?", "study": "Study definitions, supports and examples without extracting intimate material from its theological and ethical frame.", "make": "A five-column source index, not a personality quiz." }, { "title": "Unit 8 · From taxonomy to responsible teaching", "inquiry": "When does a diagram clarify, and when does it flatten lived devotional theology?", "study": "Choose one bounded category, show the source structure, invite classification of examples and finish by naming the diagram’s limits.", "make": "A 15-minute micro-lesson with provenance, case and teach-back." } ], "assessment": [ "Navigate from a claim to division, wave and source verse.", "Define five technical terms without relying on loose English alone.", "Classify a worked example and name uncertainty.", "Teach one taxonomy while showing where the diagram stops." ] } } }