संकल्प
sankalpa · our resolveWhy Bhakti exists
Devotion, gratitude, and service — carried into an ordinary Tuesday.
For most of the last century, a Hindu household kept its year on a wall. The panchang hung by the door, and it answered without being asked: which tithi, which nakshatra, when not to begin, whose day it is. Nobody called that an app. It was simply how the day was known.
That wall is emptier now. Not because devotion left — it did not — but because the almanac stopped being where people already are. So the questions moved to a search box, and a search box answers a devotee the way it answers everyone: quickly, confidently, and often wrongly.
Bhakti is our attempt to put the almanac back within reach, and to be honest about what it can and cannot say. Every figure it shows is computed for the day you are in. Nothing is guessed to fill a gap. When we do not know, we say we do not know, which in this field is rarer than it should be.
भित्ति-पञ्चाङ्गThe wall almanac. Hung by the door, consulted before the day began, replaced every Chaitra.
त्रयम्
trayam · three things we are trying to holdभक्ति
Devotion
Bhakti is not intensity; it is return. The lamp lit on an unremarkable morning is worth more than the grand observance kept once a year. We build for the unremarkable morning.
कृतज्ञता
Gratitude
A morning blessing sent to your mother is a small act of thanks that costs nothing and lands somewhere real. Most of what we make is in service of that gesture.
सेवा
Service
What is received is meant to move. Seva is the part of this we have not built yet, and the part we consider ourselves most obliged to.
आन्दोलन
andolan · a movementOne lamp, then a river of them.
A single diya set on the water is a private thing. Ten thousand of them, set by ten thousand people who never met, is something else entirely.
That is the difference we mean by a movement, and it is the only sense in which we use the word. Not a following. A great many ordinary people keeping a small practice on the same morning, and eventually turning that shared practice outward — toward the meal someone else has not eaten, the fee someone else cannot pay, the lamp someone else cannot afford to light.
We are nowhere near that yet. We are a small team, a young app, and a stated intention. But intentions are worth writing down, because they are what you can later be held to.
प्रतिज्ञा
pratigya · what we will not doFour promises, plainly stated.
A devotional app sits close to something people hold dear. That access can be used well or badly, and the difference is usually decided long before anyone notices. So we would rather be on record.
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We will not sell your birth details.
Your date, time and place of birth are stored on your own device and are not part of any account, because there is no account. We could not sell them if we wanted to.
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We will not sell fear.
No dosha discovered in order to be removed for a fee. No warning engineered to make a purchase feel urgent. Astrology has a long history of this; we want none of it.
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We will not invent what the sky does not say.
Positions, tithis and dashas are computed. A language model writes the reflection around them, and is never allowed to supply a figure. If it fails, the app shows less — not something made up.
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We will not claim a seva we have not done.
No total raised, no families reached, no partnership named, until it is true and can be checked. This site will stay boring on that subject for exactly as long as it deserves to be.
Keep the day with us.
The practice comes first; everything else follows from people actually keeping it.
