A Formulation of Truth
Where Self-Knowledge Becomes Recognition
Step into a formulation of truth, where the timeless Proust Questionnaire—resurrected under the Tamil name Karuppasami Kelvittaal—becomes a gateway to pratyabijna, the Tantric practice of recognition. Here, the act of answering introspective questions is as fun as it is englightening; it's a ritualized encounter with one Self.
The Proust Questionnaire has always asked: Who are you? But in the Tantric philosophical lineage—rooted in the non-dualist recognition traditions of thinkers like Utpaladeva—this question transforms. To be asked "What is your idea of perfect happiness?" and "What is your greatest fear?" becomes an invitation to recognize we all share in this I-consciousness within oneself, the eternal awareness that witnesses all your desires, terrors, and yearnings.
Multi-Language, Multi-Practice
In Tamil, in English, in Spanish—in your own language—you articulate the truth of your being. Your responses are encrypted, honored, held sacred. Each answer becomes a mirror in which consciousness recognizes itself.
The Work
This is the work: to blossom the lotus in the heart, to let your innate radiance transform the world through the simple, radical act of knowing yourself truly.
Destroy afflictions and cause to blossom the lotus in the heart; may awareness, your innate radiance with body fit for purpose, feast upon consciousness cool as moonbeams. And may your recognition transform this world into a place of eternal remembrance and awakening.
— Utpaladeva (c. 900–950 CE)
வாயில் — Here We Meet
Here we remember. Here consciousness recognizes itself through your words.