· Volume I · Folio 06 · Questions ·

What people ask,
and what we'd answer.

Five sections: practice, texts, privacy, pricing, account. Click any question to read more. Something we didn't cover? Write to us.

I · Practice

What this asks of you.

Is Adhyatm religious?

No. What we ask of you is to listen and reflect. You will not be asked to believe anything, recite anything, or affiliate with anything. The texts we draw from are ancient wisdom literature from the Indian subcontinent. They are old. They are also ordinary.

Do I need to know Sanskrit?

Not a word. Devanagari is shown for those who can read it; transliteration and an English reading accompany every verse. Most users only ever read the English.

How long is a session?

As long as you need. Darpan, the talk-first mirror, stays with you for the length of one sitting. A session can be three turns or thirty. When you tap Close, the mirror reads everything you sat with and hands you a single reflection plus a verse.

How is this different from meditation apps?

Calm and Headspace teach meditation: the technique of breathing and noticing. Adhyatm is a place to speak into when something is on your mind, and be met by the steadiest version of yourself. We are not better at the breath. We are doing a different thing.

What if I'm not sure what to say?

Faint starter prompts sit beneath the composer: "Anxious about something," "A relationship is heavy," "I can't sleep," "A choice I have to make." Tap one to begin from. They are starters, not constraints.

II · The texts

What you are reading.

Which texts are in the library?

The Bhagavad Gītā in full. The thirteen principal Upaniṣads. The Mahābhārata (including the Vidura Nīti). The Rāmāyaṇa. The Yoga Sūtras. The Aṣṭāvakra Gītā. The Chanakya Nīti. The Atharvaveda. Manusmṛti and Yājñavalkya Smṛti. About thirty thousand verses in total, and the library will grow.

Whose translation am I reading?

Ours. The Devanagari you see is the canonical text from public-domain critical editions. The English reading is composed by Adhyatm, drawn from the literal sense of the Sanskrit and shaped to the sentence you brought. When our reading is wrong, we will rewrite it. The chapter and verse number is always given so you can find other translations and the commentaries.

How is the verse chosen?

Software trained on the texts themselves reads what you sat with and finds the line that most resembles the question you asked. Then the same software composes the reading and the reflection. We curate the corpus by hand; the per-session match is automatic. This is the honest description of what is happening, and we'd rather you know.

Why does the verse sometimes feel close, and sometimes far?

Because the match isn't always right. When a verse lands far from where you actually were, you can ask the mirror to try again, or carry the one you got. Sometimes the line that doesn't fit yet is the one fitting later. We read the cases where the verse felt far and use them to keep tuning the retrieval.

III · Privacy

What happens to what you say.

Where is my session stored?

In our database, encrypted at rest, behind your account. Transcripts and Notes are visible only to you (and to a small number of operators who keep the system running). We are not promising on-device encryption; we are promising honesty about what we hold and a one-click delete.

Do you train models on what I say?

No. We do not pass session content into any model training pipeline, ours or anyone else's. The language models that run inside Adhyatm are commercial services (currently DeepSeek for composition and Google Vertex AI for classification + transcription) and they operate under their no-training terms for paid API traffic.

What happens to the audio when I speak a session?

It is sent to our servers, transcribed via Google Vertex AI, and discarded. We do not retain the audio. The transcript stays in your account (it is what the mirror reads) and you can delete it at any time.

Can I delete my data?

Yes. Profile → Account → Delete. Sessions, transcripts, Notes, Vyom releases. All of it, permanently, within seven days. A bulk export to JSON is on the way; if you need one before it ships, write to us at the address below.

IV · Pricing

What it costs.

Is Adhyatm free?

Yes. The whole thing is free during our beta. Sessions, Vyom, the verse library: no card, no trial timer, no upsell ladder.

Will it always be free?

Probably not. The model APIs, the database, and the work of editing all cost money, and Adhyatm has to pay for itself eventually. We have not decided the shape of paid yet, and we don't want to. The right decision will be made with the people who use Adhyatm, when there are some.

What about reduced pricing later, when paid lands?

There will be a path. Adhyatm is for anyone who wants to sit with the texts; the door does not get smaller because someone's wallet is. Write to us when the time comes.

V · Account

The small print.

Which platforms can I use Adhyatm on?

Android first, in closed beta on the Play Store Internal Testing track. iOS arrives once Android is stable and there is reason to make the App Store fee a meaningful one. There is no proper web app yet; the marketing site you are reading is not the app.

How do I sign up?

Once the door opens, you will sign up with your phone number. A one-time code is mailed to the SMS inbox; that is enough to begin. We do not use Google or Apple sign-in because we don't want either company to know you opened Adhyatm.

Why does the verse sometimes take a few seconds to arrive?

Because composing the reading is real work. The model is reading the transcript, retrieving a verse from the library, and writing a sentence that fits both. A short wait is the honest cost of a thought-out reply. If a session ever takes longer than thirty seconds at the close, that is a bug; tell us.

Can I cancel anything?

Right now there is nothing to cancel. When there is, you will cancel in two taps and revert to free. Your Notes, your sessions, and the verses you carried will all remain unless you ask us to remove them.

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