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Bodha Retreat · Katha
कथा

Through Katha

Films, reels, and recordings — the story of this tirtha carried to the bhaktas who hold it in their hearts.

The Katha

Scripture sings when it is spoken. Katha is the oldest of the three paths — the story told aloud, from mouth to ear, from teacher to student. These are the films, reels, and recordings in which Mukti Kshetra is carried outward — to those who already know it, to those who will come to know it, and to those who will never stand on the ground themselves.

On Camera · Featured

Four films, coming.

Long-form work recorded at Mukti Kshetra and with Dr. Chalise — with release dates confirmed as each cut completes.

Nilkanth Varni film
Coming 2026
Film · Cinematic narrative

The Path He Walked Alone

The cinematic narrative of Nilkanth Varni's van vicharan — from departure to the four-month tapasya at Pulhashram. Non-linear, sensory, silence-led.

Dr. Chalise on the Kali Gandaki
Next up
Film · On camera

The Shaligram That Went to Ayodhya

Dr. Kul Raj Chalise on camera — the full account of how the Kali Gandaki shilas were identified, authenticated, and carried to the Ram Mandir consecration of January 2024.

Muktinath in winter
Next up
Film · Educational

What Most Satsangis Don't Know About Muktinath

A short film on the theological layers of Pulhashram Muktinath that rarely surface in ordinary sampraday conversation — with Dr. Chalise reading directly from the shastra.

Wordless visual reel
Coming 2026
Film · Wordless visual

The Yatra, in motion

A wordless visual film of the Kali Gandaki corridor — five locations, one arc, no narration. Scored only to the river and the bells.

Reels · Short Form

Six cuts from TAP.

A five-act cinematic pilgrimage reel — luxury brand film register, devotional and hallucinatory, not travel documentary. Six standalone short-form cuts ship alongside the full piece.

TAP — full film
The Five Acts
5-act cinematic · the full film
The Tilak Shaligram
Reel · 30s
The Tilak
The stone itself, held in frame
Shilas
Reel · 30s
The Origin River
Shilas with haldi and kumkum
Bells
Reel · 30s
The Bells
Dawn in the courtyard
Four months
Reel · 30s
Four Months
Tap mudra, compressed
Samarpan
Reel · 30s
Samarpan
Closing cut, at altitude
In Voice · Audio

Readings and conversations.

Audio-first work — for those who prefer to listen, and for the commute home from the mandir.

Audio · Reading

Satsangi Jeevan, Chapter 44 — in full

The complete thirty-six shlokas of Nilkanth Varni's Pulhashram tapasya, read aloud in Sanskrit and then in English by Dr. Kul Raj Chalise.

Coming soon
Podcast · Series

Conversations with Dr. Chalise

A long-form series — fieldwork, primary sources, and the terrain of the Kali Gandaki corridor, drawn from three decades of scholarship.

Coming soon
Audio · Short form

Between the Verses

Short scriptural commentaries — five to ten minutes each — on individual verses of the Shikshapatri, Satsangi Jeevan, and the Puranas that speak to Mukti Kshetra.

Coming soon