Five ideas sit underneath almost everything. Learn these and most of the tradition opens up. Each is given in Sanskrit, with a plain-English sense.
Living in alignment. The right way to act in your circumstances, your duty done with care, and a felt sense of how to hold your place in the whole.
Action and its echo. What you do returns to shape you. The path is not fate, it is the steady work of choosing well, again and again.
The self within and the whole that holds everything. The tradition's boldest claim is that they are one. "Tat tvam asi", you are that.
Freedom. Waking from the long cycle of wanting and fearing into something steadier and clearer. The aim the whole path leans toward.
To yoke, to join. The practical craft of connecting the small self to the larger one. Four main roads suit four kinds of people.
The way of knowledge and clear seeing. For the reflective.
The way of love and devotion. For the warm-hearted.
The way of selfless work. For the active and the giving.
The way of meditation and stillness. For the disciplined.