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The HIPL Reading Circle · Monthly

One text. One question. One conversation.

Every month we pick a short text and one guiding question. Read at your own pace, then talk it through with 12 to 20 people, online or in person.

This monthSample month

Katha Upanishad: the Nachiketa dialogue

Guiding question

When should you refuse what is pleasant for what is good?

Short enough to finish in a month. Freely available in Sanskrit with translations on the Gita Supersite; we name the translation we use in the guide.

Open the reading guideThe story, illustrated
Sessions
Online[DATE] · [TIME]Video call · link sent on sign-up
In person[DATE] · [TIME][VENUE], New Delhi · 12–20 seats
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Facilitator: [FACILITATOR NAME]
How it works
  1. Start of the monthWe announce the text and the guiding question, with a 2-page reading guide.
  2. Read alongAt your own pace. Texts are short and freely or legally available.
  3. End of the monthA facilitator leads a 60-minute discussion for 12–20 people, online and in one city.
  4. AfterwardsWe publish a short summary of what the group discussed.
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The kind of texts we read

A chapter of the Bhagavad GitaOne chapter, one month.
An UpanishadLike the Katha, with Nachiketa.
A Bhakti poet's versesIn translation, with the original.
A modern essayBy an Indian thinker, or the text behind that month's Dialogue.

Past circles

The archive of texts, questions and discussion summaries starts after the first circle.