About this website
This is a non-profit, open-source website dedicated to the life, teachings, and legacy of Shivapuri Baba (1826–1963).
It is not about its authors or contributors. It exists only to carry Shivapuri Baba’s message — faithfully, freely, and to anyone who seeks it. Those who build it are stewards, not subjects.
Our principles
Every decision here — what we publish, how it is written, how the site is built — serves four principles. When a choice conflicts with one of them, the principle wins.
1. Non-profit, always
This website will never be monetised. No advertising, no paywalls, no trackers, no selling of anyone’s data. It exists to serve readers, not to generate revenue — because trust in a source about a spiritual figure cannot coexist with a profit motive.
2. Academic rigour over rumour
Substantive claims are sourced and referenced, with a preference for first-hand and reputable accounts. We try to keep clearly distinct what is documented fact, what is interpretation, and what is tradition or legend — and to say so plainly where the evidence is thin or contested. The aim is to inform, not to mythologise.
3. The best possible reading experience
The design has one job: to get out of the way of reading. The site is built to be fast, reliable, and calm — readable on any device and on a slow connection, accessible to everyone, and usable even where scripts fail to load.
4. Open source
The project belongs to the community. Its code — and, where rights allow, its content — is public, developed in the open, and free for anyone to read, audit, improve, or self-host.
Corrections and contributions
Because this site aims at a scholarly standard, it will sometimes be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. If you find an error, an unsupported claim, or a better source, we genuinely want to know — corrections and well-sourced contributions are welcome.
Licence
- Code is released under the MIT Licence.
- Original content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Third-party material — quotations, source texts, and images belonging to others — remains under its own copyright and is credited at the point of use.