एक संकल्प — one sankalpa

Know yourself.
Improve, a little
every day.

Chirantana is a kutumba of families, children, youth, and mentors who’ve taken a shared sankalpa: to study the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, and the itihasa of Rama and Hanuma — not as history, but as a working guide for how to think, act, and grow.

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What guides us

The Lanterns Our Ancestors Carried

Every study circle at Chirantana traces back to a handful of sources — the same ones that have guided seekers for generations. We don’t treat them as artifacts to admire, but as lanterns still worth carrying.

01

Shruti श्रुति

What was heard and preserved directly — the Vedas. The bedrock texts everything else in our study circles is checked against.

02

Purana पुराण

Remembered tradition, told through cosmology and story — one of the two strands of Smriti we draw our modules from.

03

Itihasa इतिहास

“Thus indeed it happened” — epic narrative like the Ramayana, where Rama and Hanuma give us a working model for how to live.

SADHAKAS

HANUMA DHOOTAS

KUTUMBAS

NAYAKAS

“Recognising who you are lets you deal with the world wisely — aware of the why behind your own thoughts and actions.”

About Chirantana

Self-Inquiry, Made a Daily Habit

Chirantana Institute of Introspective Studies is a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian community built around one practice: self-inquiry. We draw on the Vedas and on the itihasa of Rama and Hanuma to move toward gnana — real self-knowledge — and a steadier, freer sense of who we are.

Introspection and open discussion are how we work. Rather than handing down answers, we build a space where curiosity is welcome, where people learn to think an issue through to its root, and where the present moment — not an idealised past or a worried future — is where the work actually happens.

Self-inquiry Bhagavad Gita Sanskrit Indian Knowledge Systems Family & youth study circles

Programmes

Two Ways To Begin

Each programme pairs a text with a practice — something to learn, and something to actually do with it this week.

Ongoing modules

Swa-Avalokanam
स्व-अवलोकनम्

A set of modules built on the Bhagavad Gita to strengthen self-awareness and self-control. You learn a shloka, practice it daily, and use it to work through a real, present-day conflict — not just recite it.

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5-year certificate

Shaastram Adheemahe
शास्त्रम् अधीमहे

A certificate course across the Indian Knowledge Systems and Sanskrit. Each of the five years adds a new IKS subject and the next of five Sanskrit levels, offered with Surasaraswati Sabha, Sringeri.

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Ongoing · open to the whole kutumba

Bhagavad Gita Abhiyaana

A rolling, chapter-by-chapter series — “Learn One Adhyaaya in a Month” — working through the Gita’s shlokas and their meanings, one small sitting at a time.

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Kishkindha · the forest kingdom, remembered

Kishkinda Kutumba

Named for Hanuma’s own kingdom — our community of families, children, and mentors, meeting regularly for study, Scholastic Sunday, and the odd summer sambhrama.

The Assembly Gathers

Voices from the Kutumba

Gopthri

Being a part of Kishkinda Kutumba I am very happy to say that I have completed 1 and a half years. Each day I have been learning one or the other thing in prayanam. I am very proud to say that I have got a teacher like Sri Lakshmi Ma’am and all the other teachers. They have taught me how to Learn shloka as well as they have taught me samskara in GitaJeevanam class.

Advik

It gives me great pleasure to share my experiences. I have been a part of many wings in Kishkinda Kutumba for almost 2 years. It has inculcated a sort of discipline in me. I have improved academically with increased concentration levels and memory power. I have improved in observation skills, coordination, peer interaction and respecting others’ views.

Looking forward to many more challenges.

Hamshini

The Bhagavad Gita encourages us to live life with purity, strength, discipline, honesty, kindness and integrity in order to find our purpose and to live it fully.

Being a Hanuma Doota enhances my concentration power and fills me with positive energy. Attending Gitajeevanam sessions helps me in Controlling my Mind Efficiently.

Aashritha

Being a part of kishkinda Kutumba is a wonderful experience, with a lot of mentors guiding you in life and even apart from school we have a whole lot of friends and it’s a class for not only learning Bhagavad Gita but also how to improve in life and studies. Here we directly get all the life lessons through Rama and Hanauma’s way of teaching. Apart from my own family this is my second family where we all get together and make beautiful memories together.

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Take Your Sankalpa Today

Registration is open for Swa-Avalokanam and Shaastram Adheemahe.
Join the kutumba — no prior study of Sanskrit or the shastras required.