Dharma
Duty · Order · Way of life
Where each thread leads
Karma
A Sanskrit word meaning 'action' that became a theory of consequence — and, in English, a rough synonym for cosmic payback it never was.
Vedānta
A family of Indian philosophical schools reading the Upanishads, disagreeing sharply about the relationship between self and ultimate reality.
Philosophy
Literally the love of wisdom: the practice of asking questions carefully enough that the answers can be examined.
Sanskrit
A classical Indo-European language whose grammatical precision shaped how a vast body of philosophy could be argued.
Life
Both a biological category with fuzzy edges and the name for the thing we are trying to make sense of.