Religion

Faith · Interpretation · Causality

An event someone understands as help, guidance, or influence from the divine. The event, its interpretation, and evidence for a cause are different questions.

Space · Ether · Sanskrit philosophy

A Sanskrit word usually translated as 'space' or 'ether' — the subtlest of the classical elements, the medium in which everything else exists.

Duty · Order · Way of life

A Sanskrit term with no single English equivalent — somewhere between law, duty, order, righteousness and the nature of a thing.

Language · Transmission · Precision

A classical Indo-European language whose grammatical precision shaped how a vast body of philosophy could be argued.

Union · Discipline · Practice

A family of disciplines aimed at steadying the mind — far older and far wider than the postural practice the word now names globally.

Word · Reason · Order

A Greek word meaning word, account, ratio and reason at once — and one of the most consequential ambiguities in Western thought.

Way · Path · Course of things

The way — both the course things naturally take and the path a person might align with.

Tradition · Interpretation · Self

A family of Indian philosophical schools reading the Upanishads, disagreeing sharply about the relationship between self and ultimate reality.

Action · Consequence · Intention

A Sanskrit word meaning 'action' that became a theory of consequence — and, in English, a rough synonym for cosmic payback it never was.