Cosmic Origins
The journey begins before history: with the one reality the Upanishads call Brahman, and the hymns and Puranic images of how the many came from the One.
Where the timeline starts
Stuti Mandir's timeline begins where the scriptures begin — not with a date, but with the question of how anything exists at all. This era is cosmology: what the texts teach, not a period of history.
Explore this era
- How Creation Begins — Nasadiya Sukta, Hiranyagarbha, Purusha and Prakriti
- The Four Yugas — the wheel of time
- The End of the Ages — pralaya and renewal
The journey continues for members
- Three ways the texts speak of the beginning