Our Gaze
Br̥hat Education · IKS & Episteme
On establishing the Indian Knowledge System as a universal episteme
परमाणु is not atom · history is not इतिहास
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A universal episteme
IKS as a complete way of knowing, rooted in our civilizational knowledge and values.
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Delivered as a science
Systematic and rigorous — not piecemeal claims or anecdote.
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Turning the gaze
An alternative to Western ontologies, read on its own terms.
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Content and form, together
Both वस्तु and वास्तु emerging from the śāstras themselves.
Darśana
Writings that frame our gaze, our vision, and the way we think at Bṛhat.
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Vastu and Vāstu: why content and form must both come from the śāstras
To establish IKS as a universal episteme, we cannot borrow Western form to carry Indian content. Both वस्तु and वास्तु must emerge from within our own knowledge traditions.
- Reversing the Gaze Turning the gaze inward — offering an alternative to Western ontologies and epistemologies, on our own terms.
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The Śāstrika Framework
Re-conceptualizing every discipline from conceptualization to application, using models of thought derived from the śāstras.
- The Indian Knowledge Repository The living corpus — Nāṭyaśāstra, Tarkaśāstra, Yogasūtra, Aṣṭādhyāyī and Itihāsa-Purāṇa — every child should encounter.
- Education as a Portal Education not as the transfer of information, but as a portal into a civilizational way of seeing.
- Education Rooted in Episteme IKS delivered systematically as a science, rather than in a piecemeal, anecdotal fashion.
From Dhīti
Writings on education from Dhīti, the Bṛhat blog.
