SIGHT - Spiritual Information Guide and Help Tool

SIGHT is a free-to-use single cross-reference platform of all religious scriptures and related works on a single interface. It is owned by MONIST Inc., Austin, TX, USA. MONIST is owned by Jyothindran Madathil, a non-resident Indian currently residing in the USA. Mr. Madathil has over 35 years of experience in Application Management Systems and Data Warehousing& Business Intelligence Systems.

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MONIST web site , as is called, has been developed by IT professionals led by Mr. Jyothindran Madathil, a retired IT Project Manager / Leader originally hailing from Palakkad, Kerala, India. Mr. Madathil is now a US citizen and he owns a small company called Monist LLC, in Austin, Texas.

The objective of this web site is to help individuals or groups interested in promoting non-objectionable spiritual materials through publications in any format (document, audio, video, diagrams) , free of cost, through this site. In addition,

As of now, MONIST solely owns two separate web-sites:

SIGHT – Spiritual Information Guide and Helping Tool: This is a unique query engine using one single platform to surf on an ever-growing data ware house (repository) of all Scriptures and related Commentaries, Sub-Commentaries, Translations, etc of all major religions. We intend to grow the way Wikipedia has been doing; but limited to Spirituality only. With respect to Hinduism, we have covered all major scriptures and very limited commentaries since the editorial team, as of now, comprises of Hindus only. We humbly request volunteers from Hinduism and all other religions to come forward to participate and guide us with their advice and non-monetary contributions to make SIGHT grow more and more.

The uniqueness of this site is that any scripture or related documents can be accessed using individual or multiple combinations (filters) of Scripture Group (Family), Sub-Group, Scripture Name, Scripture Language, Commentary/Translation Document Name given by author, Language, Publisher Name, Author(s) Name, Transcriber(s) Name etc. using a strong frame work adaptable for all religions. Also short and brief definition / description of Group, Sub-Group and Scripture have been provided to eliminate necessity of accessing any other web-site to understand the minimum information related to the scripture under search and study. For people who already know the subject scripture(s), they can directly access the document available for regular reading or further study of the subject.

Devotional works of Sivananda Ashram, Palakkad Kerala and SIGHT Users: This site is a good example as to how Monist can help people interested in spiritual matters to publish their works free of cost through Monist. As of today, we have contributions from one of the Trustees of Shivananda Ashram, Sri Narendran Madathil only. We can help any one interested in publishing their works, if any, subject to review of Monist Editorial Board to make sure that it doesn’t contain any thing objectionable to spirituality. This could be done either as part of scriptures available under SIGHT or part of this subject site. Please contact us.

Please surf through these sites and guide us with your valuable comments, suggestions and advice.

Pranam, Namaste.

MONIST Editorial Board

Jyothindran Madathil

Monist Owner
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Narendran Madathil

Chief Editor
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Mohan Chettoor

Former Associate Editor
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Ms. Janaki Vijayan

Volunteer
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Dr. Viswanath Kurup, Dallas, USA

Advisory Board Member
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Dr. Vis Niranjan, Chennai

Consultant / Advisory Board Member
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Mr. Karma Chandran, Austin, USA

Advisory Board Member
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