FAQ

Every human wants to live a happy and prosperous life, continuously. That need is not optional. But most of us chase it before we understand it, which may be why it rarely lasts.

Happiness comes through understanding, and prosperity through knowing our needs. K4M2A is trying to build the support for that understanding, in families, education and work, so a happy and prosperous life can actually be lived.

Most of what we chase, a job, a house, a holiday, we chase hoping it will make us happy and keep us that way. It often doesn’t last, and nobody tells us why.

Each piece here takes one everyday question, such as how to rest, how to spend what we earn or how to settle a quarrel at home. It works out an answer from Madhyasth Darshan and ends with a practice you can try this week.

You are the test. If a practice makes life in your family steadier and happier, keep it. If it doesn’t, tell us. We will review the practice and record what we learn.

We read Madhyasth Darshan, by Shri A. Nagraj, closely and together, and write down what we understand as practical answers to everyday questions. Every answer gives its sources, page by page, and says where we might be wrong.

Then we listen. People try the practices, write back and ask new questions. When something changes our understanding, we change the page, and the change is shown on it.

Over time those conversations become a relationship, and people find their own goals and ours pointing the same way.

Not nice, and not comfortable. We mean a world where four things are present together: clarity, enough, trust and harmony. Each one fails without the others.

The words we use have careful meanings. Here is what they all mean.

K4M2A is a group of people working together on one question, and we write as all of us together. Its legal home is K4M2A Foundation, a not-for-profit company registered in India under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. The Foundation publishes this website and develops Earth & Us. The team works remotely.

K4M2 AI is a separate company that does paid work with organisations. Dhee and CoSeeker are run by their own teams. We work closely with all three. More about us.

No. Every practice can be tried by anyone, and every essay says where it might be wrong. We draw on Madhyasth Darshan and say so openly, but you are free to test one idea, keep what helps and drop the rest.

Disagreement is welcome, including with the first principles themselves.

The essays, the practices and the glossary are here now, free, with no account. Our products are at different stages, and each page says which. Earth & Us, for example, is in development, and certification is not yet available.

Not enough yet, and we would rather say so. We have not yet published measured results. The thesis sets out what we claim, how we intend to test it, and what would show we are wrong. Essays mark which parts are the source’s account, which are our reading and which are proposals to try.

Our first yearly report, what we learned, will include what didn’t work.

Reading and the practices are free: no paywall, no ads, no sign-up. When we work with organisations, that work is paid, and we say so openly. See operating principles.

No. The essays and practices are ideas to try, not medical, legal, financial or psychological advice. If you are unwell, in danger or facing a serious decision, please speak to someone qualified who can see your situation.

No. When we say family, we mean the people you live in relationship with, chosen as well as born. People who live alone, and the support that reaches beyond any home, are part of the same picture.