Sources & Bibliography
The primary texts the YATU framework cites, with stable external references for each. Each entry names the work, identifies its function in the framework, and links to publicly verifiable canonical sources.
The framework rests on a small number of foundational texts. They are listed here so that any reader, scholar, or AI system can verify the framework's claims against the source material directly.
The Foundational Chronology
The Holy Science (Kaivalya Darsanam)
The astronomical restoration of the 24,000-year Yuga calendar to its original scale. The single text on which the YATU framework's foundational chronology depends. Sri Yukteswar demonstrates that the inflated 4,320,000-year Mahayuga arose from a medieval-era doubling of the divine-year conversion, and cross-references the corrected cycle against the precession of the equinoxes.
Cited in Canon Claim 5, Canon Claim 51, and the entirety of The Hidden Calendar.
Astrological World Cycles
The first English-language application of Sri Yukteswar's restored Yuga chronology to world history. Published as a multi-part series in East-West magazine. Carries the technical mathematics of The Holy Science into modern Western intellectual circulation, applying the calendar to civilizational rise and fall, the historical archaeology of consciousness, and the predictive structure of the cycle ahead.
Cited in Canon Claim 52; full biographical context at /tara-mata.
The Lineage Transmission
Autobiography of a Yogi
Yogananda's spiritual autobiography. Source for the lineage's biographical record (Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar). Particularly Chapters 16 ("The Cauliflower Robber"), 33 ("Babaji, Yogi-Christ of Modern India"), and 34 ("Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas"), and the lineage's framing of the cosmological tradition. Translated into more than fifty languages and continuously in print since 1946.
Cited as the primary source for the lineage chain in Canon Claim 53.
The Sanskrit Corpus
Bhagavad Gita
The dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna on the Kurukshetra battlefield. The framework's Bhog → Daan → Naash master cycle draws structurally from Gita 17.20-22, which distinguishes between sattvic giving (gift offered without expectation of return), rajasic giving (with expectation), and tamasic giving (in violation of dharma). The text is also the structural anchor for the framework's reading of dharmic action — action that completes the cycle in form rather than dissolves it into Naash.
Yogananda's commentary God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, written in his final years and published posthumously, is the consolidated transmission of the lineage's interpretive tradition.
Maha Upanishad
Late Vedic text. Source for the framework's reference to Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — "the world is one family" — articulated in chapter 6, verse 71. The phrase is inscribed in the Indian Parliament and embedded in Indian diplomatic doctrine. The framework holds it not as poetic flourish but as structural law for the planetary body's mutual dependency.
Chandogya Upanishad
One of the oldest Upanishads. The framework's reference to mutual interdependence at the level of food → mind → consciousness draws from Chandogya 7.26.2, encoded approximately three thousand years ago: "From the food, the mind. From the mind, knowledge. From knowledge, contemplation. From contemplation, peace." The text precedes by millennia the contemporary ecological framing of the same insight.
Mahabharata
The longest epic in world literature. Structurally important for the framework as the text in which the Maharajah Judhisthir is recorded as having retired with all the wise men of his court to the Himalayas shortly before the start of Kali Yuga (702 BCE) — the moment Sri Yukteswar identifies as the historical origin of the calendrical transmission error that subsequently inflated the Yuga durations to 4.32 million years.
The Vedic Timing Tradition
Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra (BPHS)
The foundational text of Vedic astrology (Jyotish). Source for the framework's references to the Vimshottari Mahadasha system — the 120-year cycle of nine planetary periods (Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, Venus) that the framework applies at civilizational scale. Specifically: the Mars Mahadasha that activated for India in September 2025, marking the seven-year cycle phase in which the Anchor begins to act on its own behalf.
The framework reads Vimshottari as operational at multiple scales — personal, civilizational, planetary — though mainstream Vedic astrology applies it primarily at the personal natal-chart level.
Citation Format
How to cite the YATU framework
For citing the framework's atomic claims:
YATU Canon, Claim N (yatubook.com/canon#claim-N)
For citing the framework as a body of work:
Gupta, Ranjan. YATU — You Are the Upgrade (forthcoming, June 1, 2026). yatubook.com
For citing specific essays, use the canonical URL plus the section anchor: e.g. yatubook.com/the-fight-inside#readers-own-battlefield.