Act fully. Let go gently.

We build small, quiet software that respects your attention. First up: Nishkam, the Bhagavad Gita, read through the season of life you're in.

The 701 lights in the middle are the Gita's 701 verses. The bright one is 2.47. Hover any light to read its address, then scroll into the storm.

Calm isn't somewhere you escape to.
It's something you carry into the noise.

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Chapter 2 · Verse 47

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥

karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣhu kadāchana

Your work is the study itself — not the rank. Give this hour everything, and let the result arrive on its own.

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Nishkamनिष्काम

Action without craving for the fruit. All 701 verses in Sanskrit, transliteration and translation, each one reframed for the life you're actually living.

The verses now: a lotus of eighteen petals around the app. Each petal is a chapter, as long as it is.

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English and Hindi on every path. Gujarati on Grihastha.
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One verse, three lives

Same wisdom. Your context.

Your work is the study itself — not the rank. Give this hour everything, and let the result arrive on its own.

For exams, focus and learning

Three rings of verses, overlapping. The verse in the middle belongs to all three lives. The ring that's lit is the one you're reading.

Sacred Path

Eighteen chapters.
One conversation.

Nishkam walks you through the Gita chapter by chapter and remembers where you stopped, on your phone and nowhere else. Each bar below is a chapter, drawn to its real length.

Every light in these columns is one verse, stacked by chapter. Hover a column to light its verses anywhere on the page.

    02

    Sankhya Yoga

    The Yoga of Knowledge · 72 verses

    Gita 2.47–2.48

    The Control Circle.

    The bright ring is chapter two, all 72 verses, where 2.47 and 2.48 live. The other 629 wait outside it.

    Name what's weighing on you and sort it: what's in your hands, and what isn't. Nishkam answers each side with a verse. Try it. Tap a worry.

    Not in my hands
    In my hands

    Tap a thought to place it.

    Privacy by design, not by promise.

    01On-device

    All 701 verses are AES-256 encrypted inside the app and decrypted on your phone.

    02One sign-in

    Google Sign-In is the only network call. Your name stays on the phone. Your email is never stored.

    03Zero trackers

    No analytics, no ads, no tracking SDKs. Sign out or clear data and it's gone.

    The verses trace the edge of each promise and keep moving, the way a watch keeps time.

    This website keeps the same standard. It sets no cookies, loads nothing from anyone else, and your browser checks every script and stylesheet against a fingerprint before running it. Found a hole? Tell us privately.

    We'd rather ship one thing that's finished than five that are almost. Nishkam took a long time to get right: every verse, three lenses, three languages, and not one tracker. That's the standard for everything that comes after it.

    The Aighth

    From the studio

    More is on the way.

    Two seeds of light, still turning. We'll say what they are when they're finished.

    Release 02

    Coming soon

    In the workshop. Details when it's ready.

    Release 03

    Classified

    Still on the whiteboard.

    योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्

    “Yoga is skill in action.” Gita 2.50

    Morning. All eighteen chapters, one ring each, make the sun. Chapter one is the core, chapter eighteen the edge.

    Begin with Nishkam

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