From the start, HYP Yoga’s AI Companions have been anchored by a small set of canonical texts — the Pradīpikā, Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, the Bhagavad Gītā, the principal Upaniṣads. Enough to ground the practice. Not always enough to do the practice justice.
Today the Library grows. New scholarship from Paramahansa Yogananda (Metaphysical Meditations, Living Fearlessly), Bikram Choudhury’s foundational Beginning Yoga Class, Sandy Raper’s Ignite Your Yoga, and T. Krishnamacharya’s commentary on the Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā all join the Source Archive that grounds SwamiGPT, DharmaGPT, TapasAI, and AI Sparks. The corpus that the Companions can quote from grew from roughly 23 to 28 indexed books, with several hundred more passages now searchable by glossary term.
Five paths into the shelf
The new /library page makes the whole archive visible. Books are organized into five categories — Classical Yoga, Modern Yoga, Indian Epics, Mindfulness, and World Wisdom — with title, author, year, blurb, and a badge under each card showing which Companions cite it. Every Amazon link carries our affiliate code, so opening a book through HYP Yoga quietly helps keep the lights on.
This is the same registry the rest of the site reads from. When a new book lands, the bibliographies on SwamiGPT, DharmaGPT, and TapasAI’s info pages update automatically. No more drift between “what the model knows” and “what we tell you it knows.”
Citation chips on every reply
The bigger change is harder to see at first. Every AI Companion response now ends with a small row of citation chips — pills naming the books the model actually drew on for that turn. Tap a chip, and you land on the book’s Amazon page (with our affiliate tag baked in). Studying a verse with SwamiGPT and the answer leans on Light on Yoga? You’ll see Iyengar’s name in a chip beneath the reply.
It’s the same impulse behind inline verse citations like (YS 2.46) — show your work, let the practitioner verify, let them go to the source if it calls to them. Just made visible for the wider Library too.
For Aspirants and Teachers
The expansion is biggest where it matters most: source-grounded AI Sparks on verses, sūtras, and glossary terms now reach further than they did yesterday. Tension Analysis can surface convergence between Yogananda’s framing of abhiniveśa and Patañjali’s. Topical Guide can connect a glossary term to Krishnamacharya’s commentary it couldn’t reach before. The Link AI Sparks feature has more shelves to draw from.
TapasAI — your Smart Journal companion — gets the same upgrade, plus citation chips on each of its replies. When TapasAI reflects on a journal entry through the lens of tapas (YS 2.1) and the framing draws from Light on Yoga and Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga, you’ll see both books named in chips beneath the reply.
What comes next
Two big additions are queued up: the public-domain Mahābhārata (Ganguli translation) and Rāmāyaṇa (Griffith translation), and a curated set of ~40 Western anatomy, neuroscience, and mindfulness glossary terms for the practitioners who think in fascia and vagus nerves alongside cakras and nāḍīs. The taxonomy is ready; the content is in queue.
The Library will keep growing. Each new source has to earn its place — vetted for accuracy, lineage clarity, and lasting value. None of this changes the texts that already live freely on the site: the Pradīpikā and the Yoga Sūtras remain the heart of HYP Yoga, available to anyone, no account required. The Library is what stands behind them.
Visit /library to browse. Open any AI Companion to see citation chips for yourself.
— Josh
Founder, HYP Yoga