A Thesis on Śraddhā: The Bhagavad Gītā, Philosophical Inquiry, and the Living Test of Truth

This essay presents śraddhā as a philosophical category rather than a merely religious term. It reads the Bhagavad Gītā as a work of inquiry into action, knowledge, responsibility, and lived truth, and interprets the preliminary “Ben Adam” page of the doctoral thesis Śraddhā in the Bhagavad Gītā as a compact statement of experiential verification. The essay argues that texts and traditions should not be accepted as passive authority, but tested through experience, discernment, dialogue, and responsibility.