Yogic research

Most teachings reach us already worn smooth by repetition — a kriya attributed to an ancient sage, a mantra said to carry one fixed meaning, a lineage story told with more confidence than evidence behind it. My work is to follow those threads back toward where they actually begin. I read primary sources in the languages I can manage and in careful translation where I can't; I check the scholarship against the living tradition I was trained inside as an authorized teacher in the Udāsīn–Nirmalā lineage of Yogi Amandeep Singh; and — having been trained by Harmanjot Kaur to document teachings from the Library of Teachings — I know how to hold a source to account. I keep to one standard: name the source when it's solid, and say plainly where the record goes thin or an attribution won't bear weight. The working bibliography I assembled over years of doctoral research, spanning yoga, tantra and Śaivism, Advaita, Sikh Dharma and Kundalini, and the consciousness-primary currents that cross them, is the map I work from. For a teacher, writer, or institution who wants their material grounded in something real, this is patient, honest source work: what a practice is, where it came from, and how much we can truthfully claim about it.