Kedi Ganapati

The Symbolic Mechanics of the Cosmic Churning: A Reinterpretation of the Samudra Manthan

The traditional narrative of Samudra Manthan has long been received through the lens of ancient mythology as a singular, historical event occurring in a celestial ocean. This paper presents a rigorous reinterpretation of the churning of the milk ocean as an absolute, immutable, a...

Recognising One's Own Devotion Path: A Phenomenological and Autoethnographic Theory of Fourfold Devotion in Sanatan Dharma

This paper presents an autoethnographic and phenomenological investigation into the nature of devotion (bhakti) through a first-person field study conducted in Vrindavan, India. Motivated by the desire to understand devotional practice from lived experience rather than inherited...

Recognising One's Own Devotion Path: A Phenomenological and Autoethnographic Theory of Fourfold Devotion in Sanatan Dharma

This paper presents an autoethnographic and phenomenological investigation into the nature of devotion (bhakti) through a first-person field study conducted in Vrindavan, India. Motivated by the desire to understand devotional practice from lived experience rather than inherited...