Karana: Hinduism Made Easy
The why behind the practice
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Karana is a daily Hindu practice you can actually keep.
Light a lamp. Read a verse. Learn why the festival on Thursday is a festival.
THE COMPLETE TEXTS
The Bhagavad Gita verse by verse, with meaning, plus the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Puranas and the Rig Veda. Not summaries. The verses.
THIRTEEN GUIDED JOURNEYS
404 narrated episodes that take a whole text one short sitting at a time, so a scripture becomes something you finish rather than something you mean to start.
YOUR OWN CALENDAR
Ekadashi, Pradosham, Sankashti and the rest, worked out from the sun and moon at your own latitude rather than looked up in a table. The day the moon returns to your birth nakshatra. Your region's new year. Family remembrances on their lunar tithi, which moves against the western calendar by eleven days a year.
AND ALSO
Seventy festivals, each with the story, the reason and what to actually do.
Fifty-eight prayers and mantras with real recorded audio.
Ten guided meditations, five to fifteen minutes.
A puzzle a day, drawn from what you are learning.
In ten Indian languages, plus English.
The daily practice is free. Karana Plus opens every journey, every chapter, the meditations and your personal calendar.
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Home screen widgets: today's Gita verse and your streak, right on your home screen.
Narration no longer goes quiet on Plus episodes or after a long session, and lesson sounds and ambient music now play.
New South Indian festivals: Karthigai Deepam, Aadi Velli, Aadi Perukku, Aadi Pooram and the Mariamman Porridge Festival.
The puja how-to guides are back on Practice.
Smoother browsing in Learn, and other fixes.
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Information
- Seller
- Gridbits LLC
- Size
- 55 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Karana Plus Yearly $44.99
- Karana Plus Monthly $4.99
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