What shape can hold these obligations, and does it repeat at every scale?
A door in (a seed): Break a floret off a cauliflower: it is the whole head, smaller. Then open a company’s org chart, where no team looks anything like the company.
Sāmatva is balance; artha is prosperity and meaning. The Sāmatvārtha Mandala, the ReGrowth Automaton in English, is this book’s working model of how they fit. Kate Raworth’s Doughnut draws the boundaries of a safe and just space, and her embedded economy names four ways we provide for each other: household, commons, market and state. The mandala asks how to rebalance them, with the five obligations at the root. That last part is a hypothesis.
Its grammar is three words: Kṣetra (policy), Karm (venture), Kula (community), held in one Kośa, from the smallest scale to the largest. As in the self, so in the cosmos. The chapter presents it as a formalism the studio is building, not as inherited scripture.
A line it may earn (a seed): Decide near the thing: the one who sees the crack should be able to mend it.
Sections planned so far
- Balance and prosperity
- Household, commons, market, state
- Kṣetra · Karm · Kula, in one Kośa
- As in the self, so in the cosmos
The image it turns on: the mandala drawn in plan: three squares in a row, held in one Kośa.
This chapter might instead be called the Embedded Economy Mandala.
A seed, sketched with AI from the author’s notes and the studio’s reading: the question and the direction, not yet the argument.
Leans on Sutra of Pañca Ṛṇa and Wolfram Ruliad. Leads to Regrowth, Not Degrowth. After it, reread the explainer.