About OpenSacred
A free, open, ad-free home for Hindu sacred texts — built so that anyone, anywhere in the world, can read India's greatest scriptures in Sanskrit, understand them in English, and hear them interpreted by the teachers who gave their lives to understanding them.
Why This Exists
The great texts of Sanatana Dharma — the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras, the Ramayana — have guided human beings toward wisdom, duty, and liberation for thousands of years. They belong to everyone. Not just scholars, not just those who read Sanskrit, not just those who can afford expensive editions.
OpenSacred was built on a single conviction: these texts should be freely, beautifully, and accurately available to every sincere seeker — with the depth of traditional commentary intact, not flattened into something palatable but empty.
We started with the Bhagavad Gita — all 700 verses, complete, with commentary from all three great Vedantic acharyas. More scriptures are coming. This is a library that is being built for the long term.
Coming to the Library
Scriptures being prepared for publication
Upanishads
108 principal Upanishads — the wellspring of Vedantic philosophy
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
196 sutras on the nature of mind and the path of Raja Yoga
Ramayana
Valmiki's epic — the story of Rama, Sita, and dharmic kingship
Srimad Bhagavatam
The great Purana of devotion — the life and teachings of Krishna
Three Traditions. One Truth.
Every scripture on OpenSacred is presented with commentary from the three great acharyas of the Vedantic tradition. They do not always agree — and that disagreement is itself a teaching. The texts are deep enough to hold all three.
Adi Shankaracharya
8th century CEAdvaita Vedanta
Non-dual — Brahman alone is real; liberation is recognition, not attainment
Ramanujacharya
11th–12th century CEVishishtadvaita
Qualified non-dualism — devotion and surrender as the path to the personal Lord
Madhvacharya
13th century CEDvaita
Pure dualism — the soul and God are eternally distinct; bhakti is the means
Our Principles
Free, always
No subscriptions, no paywalls, no premium tiers. Every word of every scripture is freely available to everyone.
Ad-free
No advertising, ever. The sacred word is not a vehicle for commercial messaging.
Sanskrit-first
Every verse in Devanagari, with transliteration so you can say it aloud — not just read it.
Three traditions
Commentary from Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, and Dvaita traditions — because the Gita is deep enough to hold all three.
Made with for seekers worldwide