Frequently Asked Questions
Every morning: one līlā, one verse — with its meaning and its relevance to your life today — and daily devotional artwork. The Free tier gives you this, plus a place in the Community of Seekers (Instagram & WhatsApp) and our monthly Community Voices reflection, at no cost, always. Membership (The Circle) adds Sacred Days & Ekādaśī editions, full Devotional Series (Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, Meera Bai, Nārada Bhakti Sūtra, Baul Bhakti & more), Seasonal Group Challenges, ad-free reading, and Member Surprises. The stories and verses are drawn from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad Gītā, Gīta Govinda, Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa, Garga Saṁhitā, and the wider devotional canon — alongside rasik stories from the lives of great bhaktas like Mīrā Bāī, Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, and the Six Gosvāmīs.
And eventually, pilgrimage. We're building small, invitation-only darshan journeys to Vrindavan, Jagannath Puri, Dwarka and beyond — ten seekers at a time, vetted by application. Members get first access once applications open, though membership alone doesn't reserve a seat — pricing and terms will be announced separately. We're also working on audio versions of the stories, for devotees who'd like to listen on the move.
There are two ways in. Free (the Daily Offering) costs nothing, ever — no card, nothing to cancel. Membership (The Circle) is $9.99 USD/month, or $99.99 USD/year if you'd rather save — about $8.33/month. There's no higher-priced tier beyond Membership — every Member gets the same thing.
We've kept this as affordable as we responsibly can, and we currently commit 7% of net subscription revenue to seva — supporting causes and initiatives close to our hearts, including the service initiatives of The Satsang Foundation.
As we grow, we hope to support more such work — quietly, responsibly, and in the spirit of seva. Full pricing and a feature-by-feature comparison are on our Pricing page.
No — nothing essential is ever locked away. The daily offering is complete on its own, free, always, for as long as you want it.
There's an enormous amount of spiritual content out there — scattered across scripture, commentary, forgotten translations, a hundred different tellings of the same līlā. Somebody still has to go to that market, choose carefully, bring it home, wash it clean, and cook it properly before it reaches your inbox at 6:30 AM. That part — the daily offering — I do because I want to. It builds me, and it stays free.
The extra — festival editions, the full devotional series, the slower unfolding of stories most people never get around to — is the same market, just a longer walk and more hands involved: hosting, tools, research, curating, editing, the paintings, the sheer time it takes to get into flow state and share from there, arranging the pilgrimages, etc. All these extra bits cost something. It always has, for everyone, in every kitchen. Membership is simply how that part gets carried, so the free part can stay free.
There's no traditional trial — instead, Free is simply free, always, for as long as you'd like it. If you choose Membership, your card is charged immediately, monthly or yearly. For your first 21 days as a Member, you can step back down to Free for a full refund, no questions asked. After day 21, that window closes, but you're free to cancel anytime going forward — you just won't be refunded for time already used.
6:30 AM Indian Standard Time — before the emails, the meetings, the noise of the day gets its hands on you first. That's one fixed moment right now, so if you're outside India it may land at a different local hour. We're working on adjusting this by region.
English for now. If Hindi matters to you, tell us — that's exactly what tells us where to go next.
Nothing happens to you. No backlog, no streak to lose, no guilt. Come back whenever you're ready — today's story is simply there. And if you ever want to look back, a quiet archive of past mornings will always be there to browse — never as something to catch up on, only as something to revisit if you want to.
No — and if you did, we'd have failed at what we're trying to do. Every story stands on its own two feet.
No. This is for anyone who feels a pull toward something steadier than what their days currently offer. Some subscribers grew up with these stories. Others are meeting Kṛṣṇa for the very first time.
Real, sourced, and checked — every time. Every story and verse is cross-referenced against the original Sanskrit source texts and established commentarial tradition — primarily the Bhagavata Purāṇa, the Gīta Govinda, and the Vrindavan devotional lineage — before it's ever sent. No verse is ever attached to a scene it doesn't belong to, and no story is adapted from a secondary retelling without being checked against the source.
Yes. It exists for one purpose: to deliver your daily message to you. Never sold, never handed to advertisers. See our Privacy Policy.
Yes. Genuinely, anytime, no argument, no dark-pattern maze to escape. See our Cancellation & Refund Policy.
Yes — and for a lot of subscribers, that's the real reason they're here. These are the same stories a grandmother would have told at bedtime.
Yes — see our Gift a Subscription page. A natural fit for a parent, a child, or anyone you'd want to carry this with.
Nothing is different about your willpower — that was never the problem. We deliberately asked for less: five minutes, no backlog, no prerequisite, no punishment for stopping. Show up for today's five minutes, and let tomorrow decide whether it wants to be different too.
Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa don't belong to any one lineage, institution or sampradāya — They belong to everyone who turns toward Them. That's a conviction we hold, not just a disclaimer.
In practice, we source primarily through the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava devotional tradition — the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, the Gīta Govinda, the writings of the Six Gosvāmīs, and the lineage of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu — simply because that's the path the founder personally walks, and a single coherent thread of interpretation is what makes careful, checked sourcing possible at all. Where a story or teaching draws on a different stream of the wider Kṛṣṇa-bhakti tradition, we'll say so.
This is a conscious choice about how we source, not a claim about who Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa belong to. No offense is intended to any other sampradāya, lineage, or way of loving Them — we simply believe it's more honest to walk one path carefully than to blur many into one.
As honestly as one person can. Every story and verse is checked against source texts and established commentary before it's ever sent — but we're not a temple or an institution with a review board, and we'd rather say that plainly than imply an authority we don't have.
If you ever spot an error, tell us — a simple note through our Contact page reaches us directly, and it will be corrected.
This is, honestly, a task too large for one person to carry alone forever. If you're a scholar, a serious student of the tradition, or someone with real training in Sanskrit or the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava textual tradition, and this work speaks to you — we would be genuinely grateful for your eyes on it, whether as a quiet volunteer or for a modest honorarium, whatever feels right. We're slowly looking to form a small, informal core circle of people who care about getting this right, not to lend us authority, but simply to help us not get it wrong. If that's you, or someone you know, please write to us.