LeelaClue User Guide

Welcome to LeelaClue, your personal companion for self-reflection and inner clarity through the timeless wisdom of Leela.

What is Leela?

Leela is a 2,000-year-old Vedic game of self-knowledge (originally Jnana Chaupar or the "Game of Life"). Created by ancient seers as a mirror of human consciousness, its 72-square board maps the universal principles of life, inner states of being, and planes of human evolution (the chakras).

LeelaClue translates this profound wisdom into a mindful digital companion: instead of playing through the hours-long full board game, you receive immediate, focused guidance from the field. The app helps you explore the core of life's questions, illuminate blind spots, and ground deep insights into practical daily micro-actions.

Getting Started
How to Use LeelaClue
My Diary
- My Reflections
Additional Features
Example Scenarios
FAQ

Getting Started

When you first open LeelaClue, you are welcomed by a serene night-sky interface designed to create a calm, centered space for your inner journey. Taking a few deep, mindful breaths before you begin will help you get the most out of your reflections.

On your first launch, you receive a complimentary welcome gift of Clues — the energy that powers the Leela Guru (see The Leela Guru & Clues).

Language & Profile

LeelaClue is available in English, German, and Russian.

To change the language, tap the Globe icon in the top navigation bar.
To update your greeting name or set daily reminders, tap the Gear icon (Settings).

How to Use LeelaClue

The Main Screen

The main screen is your central sanctuary:

The Carousel: Swipe through five main cards: the three core rituals — Daily Guidance, Daily Wisdom, and The Leela Field — followed by Sadhana Tree and Dakshina.
Quick Navigation & Progress: The icons along the top serve as shortcuts — tap any icon to jump directly to that carousel card without swiping. They also track your daily progress, displaying a checkmark once a ritual is completed.
Help Button: The question mark icon (?) is available across every screen in the app. Tapping it at any time provides you with concise, context-sensitive explanations of the current screen and its features.
Active Practices Button: Tap the lotus icon at the bottom to open Today's Practice Plan (Active Practices).
Diary Button: Tap the book icon to explore your reflection history.

Daily Guidance — The Leela Reflections Method

Daily Guidance is the heart of LeelaClue. It follows the Leela Reflections Model — a process that transforms a question into a journey toward clarity: moving from your intention, through three reflective cards, to a single distilled insight and a practical micro-action for your day.

The StOR Framework

Your three cards correspond to key squares on the Leela board, forming the StOR (State, Obstacle, Resource) framework:

St — State / Starting Point (Where am I now?): Where you truly stand in this moment — your present inner state and self-awareness.
O — Obstacle / Shadow Zone (What do I not notice yet?): What hinders your movement and remains hidden in your blind spot.
R — Resource / Key to Resolution (What will carry me forward?): Your inner catalyst for transformation — the key that unlocks your path forward.

The Journey, Step by Step

Set Your Intention: Write your question or intention — or tap the microphone in the upper-left corner of the input field and speak it. Avoid simple Yes/No questions; frame your inquiry around "What..." or "How...". The button in the upper-right corner of the input field provides immediate support:
- Gold Wand: Tap this whenever you need inspiration. Leela provides curated themes, each offering three contemplative questions. Once you have completed several Guidance rituals, Deepen your insight appears at the top of the list, offering your own past questions so you can explore them from fresh angles. (These questions remain strictly private on your device.) Tap any question to insert it into your input field.
- Lilac Guru: Once you type your own words, the button transforms into a pulsing lilac Guru icon. Tap it to invite the Guru's guidance. The Guru helps clarify your inquiry by:
  - Identifying the core theme underlying your question.
  - Offering clearer, more resonant rephrasings.
  - Reframing externally focused inquiries (about others or circumstances) into three deeper personal inquiries.
    You are always free to keep your original wording or adopt a suggestion.
Gather Mental Energy & Focus: Press and hold the Focus button. As the screen charges with your mental energy, hold your intention in mind until the countdown completes and the circle turns green, revealing your three StOR cards.
Explore the Triad: Tap each card to reveal its perspective — first your Starting Point, then your Shadow Zone, and finally your Key to Resolution. Each card provides reflective questions tailored to its StOR role. Leela can also personalize these questions specifically to your situation. To contemplate the artwork on its own, tap the hide-text icon or press and hold anywhere on the card. Tap again to restore the text.
Reflect: Write a reflection for each of the three cards. This is the heart of the practice: the cards illuminate the theme, but your reflections create the transformation. If you feel stuck, write a few initial notes and tap the Guru icon to receive three personalized reflection prompts based on your thoughts.
My Insight: Distill your three reflections into a single unifying conclusion — in your own words, or with the Guru's assistance.
My Practice: Translate your insight into one concrete micro-action for today. The Guru can suggest a tailored practice, or offer alternatives if the first suggestion doesn't resonate.

The Ritual Page:
Your question, the three cards and reflections, your Insight, and your Practice are presented in a unified vertical scroll. You can move sequentially or jump ahead — your Insight can be formulated even before all reflections are finished, though the more reflections you provide, the deeper the Guru's synthesis will be. The ritual path at the top displays your progress at a glance, and completing the ritual is celebrated with a gentle visual confirmation.

Daily Wisdom

A morning ritual to align your awareness and set a clear intention for the day.

Align Your Focus: Tap the Daily Wisdom card in the carousel, then press and hold the center Focus button.
Gather Mental Energy: While holding the button, the on-screen animation charges with your energy. Take this moment to breathe deeply, gather your mental focus, and center your awareness on the day ahead. Keep holding until the countdown completes and the circle turns green, revealing your card.
Receive: Contemplate your card's theme, commentary, and reflective quotes.
Embody: Every card initially offers a default standard Daily Practice. If you want a more tailored action, you can invite the Guru to suggest alternative practices: simply tap the pencil icon on the practice widget. The Guru takes your personal reflections on today's wisdom into account to craft alternative practices that are more concise, focused, and personally resonant. When you have finished your practice, tap "Mark as done" directly on the widget. Completed practices feed into your statistics, reflecting your consistency and progress in your inner work.

The Leela Field — Meditation & Breathwork

The third carousel card opens The Leela Field — a dedicated space for contemplation, breathwork, and meditation built upon the ancient 72-square Leela game board. Its rows correspond to the chakras, representing planes of human consciousness.

The Field connects your rituals with your energetic position: after completing your Daily Wisdom ritual, the carousel highlights today's chakra, and the Field reveals where today's card resides on the board.
This highlights which energetic plane or life theme invites your conscious attention today.
Tap any square to view its card and explore how the energies within that chakra row relate to one another.
Resonant Frequencies: The eight rows of the Field are tuned to an ancient nine-tone harmonic scale (from 174 Hz at the base to 963 Hz at the crown). While a card is open, you hear the resonant frequency of its plane. The frequency is displayed beside the plane name — tap it to learn about its traditional healing qualities and significance.
Rhythmic Breathwork: An open Field card breathes in harmony with its energetic plane: the artwork subtly pulses, the aura glows, and golden light travels along the card border — ascending on the inhale and descending on the exhale. A timer guides you through each phase. Each plane features a dedicated breath pattern (such as balanced breathing without retention on the Plane of Balance, or the classic 4-7-8 rhythm on the Astral Plane). No configuration is needed — each card sets its own rhythm. Tapping the frequency also explains the breathing pattern.
Contemplative Focus: Press and hold any card to hide all text, leaving only the artwork, glowing border, and breathing guide (Inhale, Hold, Exhale, Rest). A single tap brings the text back.

The Leela Guru & Clues

The Leela Guru is an AI presence designed to support each step of the Leela Reflections Model. It does not replace your intuition; rather, it sharpens your inquiries and helps ground your insights into daily action.

How Clues Work: Consultations with the Guru are powered by Clues. Each consultation uses 1 Clue — whether for refining an intention, personalizing reflective questions, suggesting card reflections, synthesizing an insight, or suggesting daily practices.
The gold wand, theme grids, curated questions, and your past inquiries are always completely free.
If a request fails due to a network or technical issue, your Clue is automatically refunded.
The Guru is entirely on-demand — it only responds when you explicitly ask.
The Guru is completely optional: every ritual can be completed in full for free without it. However, we warmly recommend trying it to deepen your shadow work and self-inquiry.

To review privacy details regarding the Guru, visit Info Menu → About Guru.

My Diary

All completed rituals are automatically saved to your Diary for long-term reflection.

Tap the Diary icon (book) on the main navigation bar.
Use the filter at the top to toggle between Wisdom and Guidance entries.
Revisit past cards and entries to see how your life themes have evolved over time.
To remove older entries, swipe them to the left (today's active entry cannot be deleted, allowing you to stay with your insight throughout the day).

My Reflections

Capture your insights directly on any card.

Tap the My Reflection section or the Edit icon on any card detail page.
Record your thoughts, emotions, or moments of realization.
Reflections remain linked to the card in your personal history.
Guru Assistance: Need inspiration? Jot down a few thoughts and tap the Guru icon to receive three tailored reflections that you can edit and adopt.

Additional Features

The Sadhana Tree

The fourth carousel card opens the Sadhana Tree (Sadhana is the Sanskrit word for a daily spiritual practice) – a living visual image of your inner work, accompanied by gentle forest ambience.

How It Grows: Every step of your practice lights up a part of the tree:
- Roots & Trunk: Grow each time you receive cards in Daily Guidance or Daily Wisdom.
- Branches: Grow with every reflection you write.
- Leaves: Grow with every practice you accomplish.
- Radiance: Working with the Leela Guru and carrying rituals all the way through to a practice add extra brightness to the tree's glow.
Live Growth Reveal: Your tree reflects your diary right away. Whenever you open the Sadhana Tree, it first builds the tree as you last saw it and then illuminates the new growth you have earned since your previous visit.
Colors of Maturity: As your practice deepens over weeks, seasons, and years, the tree evolves through four color tiers – from soft gold to orange, then pale lilac, and finally the deep lilac of the Leela Guru.
Living Weather: Missed days never shrink or wither your tree. If you step away for a while, a gentle wind rises and the running light stays closer to the trunk; when you return to your rituals, the breeze calms and the light flows back out to the tips.
Tap to See Your Numbers: Tap the roots or trunk to see how many Daily Guidance and Daily Wisdom rituals you have completed. Tap the crown to see the number of practices accomplished and reflections written. Tap the same area again to hide the numbers.

Active Practices

Tap the lotus icon on the bottom navigation bar of the main screen to open Today's Practice Plan (Active Practices) — the home for all your current commitments from both rituals (Daily Wisdom practices in green, Daily Guidance practices in orange).

Daily Practices: Practices created during a ritual are intended for that day and automatically archive at midnight.
Repeatable Practices: You can convert any practice into a recurring daily habit and set a daily reminder to help you stay consistent.
Managing Practices: Check the box when you complete a practice today; tap a practice to revisit its source card; swipe left to archive a completed practice.
Practice Statistics: The chart icon opens your practice history, showing your consistency and completed practices over time.

Dakshina — Replenishing Clues

The fifth carousel card opens the Dakshina screen, where you can replenish your Clues with packages tailored to your journey.

Prices are displayed in your local App Store / Google Play currency, and payments are securely processed by Apple or Google.
Purchased Clues are credited to your balance immediately upon confirmation from the store.

LeelaClue requires no account. However, without an account, purchased Clues remain tied solely to your current installation. The Dakshina screen therefore provides an optional sign-in using your existing Apple or Google account.

Why Sign In: Signing in links your purchased Clues to your account, allowing you to restore them after reinstalling the app or switching devices.
How: Tap "Sign in with Google" (Android) or "Sign in with Apple" (iOS) on the Dakshina screen.
Single Balance: All devices signed in with the same account share one unified Clue balance.
Welcome Gift: Welcome-gift Clues remain local to the device where they were originally granted.
Privacy: Sign-in is completely anonymous. The app never receives, stores, or transmits your name or email address — only an opaque identifier that links your balance to your account.

Share your reflections or save them as visual keepsakes:

On any result screen or Diary entry, tap the Share button.
The app generates a visual card summary containing your question, cards, and key reflections.
You can share your reflections directly with our community on Telegram or Instagram via the Contact menu (mail icon).

Daily Limits

LeelaClue is designed for deep reflection and daily integration, not rapid-fire questioning.

One Completed Ritual per Day: Each ritual allows one saved entry per calendar day to encourage deep integration.
Repeating Daily Guidance: As long as you have not yet written any reflections, you can repeat the ritual up to three times a day. This lets you formulate a new intention and receive fresh cards. Any Clues already spent on previous attempts are not refunded.
Daily Wisdom Cannot Be Repeated: Daily Wisdom provides a single card to anchor and guide your awareness for the day.

Settings & Analytics

Tap the Gear icon to access Settings:

Set your preferred name and daily reminder times.
Analytics: Analytics is disabled by default. If enabled, only anonymous usage events are recorded — never your personal reflections or questions. You can toggle this off at any time.
Leela Guru AI: Shows whether the Leela Guru may send what you share with it to Google Gemini. Switch it off at any time — the Guru then asks for your permission again before its next consultation.
Delete Account & Data: Permanently erases all local and linked cloud data — reflections, settings, purchase history, and Clue balances — restoring the app to its initial state. This action is irreversible. (Platform purchase receipts retained by Apple or Google cannot be altered by third-party apps.)

Example Scenarios

Scenario 1: Career Decisions

Situation: You received a new job offer but feel hesitant about leaving your current role.
Question: "What should I consider regarding the new job offer at TechCorp?"
The StOR Framework:

St — State / Starting Point (Where am I now?): Insecurity. You may be experiencing self-doubt regarding your capabilities.
O — Obstacle / Shadow Zone (What do I not notice yet?): Sudharma (Right Action). You are actually well-aligned with your true path.
R — Resource / Key to Resolution (What will carry me forward?): Jnana (Knowledge). Clarifying practical details about the new role will dissolve unwarranted fears.

My Insight: "My hesitation stems from self-doubt rather than any flaw in the offer. The opportunity aligns with my values; I simply need clear facts, not more reassurance."
My Practice: Write down the three specific questions concerning the role and discuss them openly with the recruiter today.

Scenario 2: Relationship Harmony

Situation: A recent disagreement with a close friend left lingering tension.
Question: "How can I heal the misunderstanding with Sarah?"
The StOR Framework:

St — State / Starting Point (Where am I now?): Ego. Holding onto defensive pride.
O — Obstacle / Shadow Zone (What do I not notice yet?): Attachment. The fear of losing the connection is manifesting as defensiveness.
R — Resource / Key to Resolution (What will carry me forward?): Compassion. Approaching Sarah with genuine empathy and releasing the need to be "right."

My Insight: "My defensiveness is shielding my fear of losing the friendship. Preserving our connection is far more valuable than defending my pride."
My Practice: Send Sarah a warm message tonight asking how she felt during our conversation, listening with full presence and without defending my position.

FAQ

Q: Why can't I ask another question today?
A: LeelaClue is designed around daily integration. You keep one completed ritual per calendar day so you can stay with the insight rather than constantly asking anew. With Daily Guidance, as long as you have not yet written any reflections, you can repeat the ritual up to three times a day. Once reflections are saved, the ritual is set for the day.

Q: Why can't I delete today's entry?
A: Daily Wisdom is meant to accompany you throughout the entire day. For Daily Guidance, you can repeat the ritual up to three times a day before writing any reflections. Once reflections are recorded, today's entry is locked so you can focus on living the insight. Entries from previous days can be deleted at any time by swiping them to the left in your Diary.

Q: Where can I find my Daily Practice?
A: Complete your Daily Wisdom ritual first. The practice from your card is then activated automatically for the day. Tap the lotus icon on the bottom navigation bar to open Today's Practice Plan (Active Practices).

Q: Do I need an account to use LeelaClue?
A: No. The app functions completely without registration. Signing in with Apple or Google is optional and serves only to protect your purchased Clues across reinstalls or device changes.

Q: What happens to my Clues if I switch devices?
A: Sign in on the Dakshina screen before changing devices. On your new phone, sign in with the same account to automatically restore your purchased Clue balance. (The initial welcome gift remains tied to the original installation.)

Q: What personal data is shared if I sign in?
A: None. The app never collects, stores, or transmits your email address or personal details — only an anonymous token that verifies your purchased balance.

Q: How do I delete my account and all data?
A: Go to Settings (Gear icon) → Delete Account & Data and confirm. This permanently removes all reflections, settings, history, and linked account data, returning the app to its initial state. If you use the app across multiple devices with the same account, repeat this step on each device.

Enjoy your journey of self-discovery with LeelaClue.

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