"Darsana Mala" is the main philosophical exposition of Narayana Guru and is arranged around ten darsanas or visions of reality. It begins with our initial superimposition that creates object-subject duality and ends with the extinction of consciousness in nirvana or absorption. Between these two darsanas come: the vision of agreement and difference; the discerning of untruth to determine truth, the study of generic error; the dynamics of phenomenality, the conditioned and unconditioned aspects of wisdom; the propensity for action; contemplative devotion; and the experiencing of yoga as the canceling out of opposites.

The original verses by Narayana Guru are short and profound. In this comprehensive commentary, Guru Nitya uses his knowledge of Indian and Western psychology to elucidate the subtle inner meaning of all ten darsanas. Each state of reality has its own vision to offer and its particular relationship to the others. All of these are strung, as if beads, on the invisible thread of Absolute Reality.