Three demon brothers stood on one leg for a hundred years. Then for a thousand years they lived on air alone. Then they stood on their heads and meditated in that inverted posture for a further thousand years. Brahma, the creator, was pleased. He appeared before Tarakaksha, Vidyunmāli, and Kamalāksha — the sons of the asura Tārakāsura — and asked…
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The foundational scripture of svara yoga — the science of the breath — given as a dialogue between Pārvatī and Śiva across 396 verses on nāḍī, tattva, time, and the rhythm of the nostrils.
The pedagogy of the eighteen Purāṇas is not a tale of monsters defeated. It is a graded description of what consciousness wants when it forgets the source. Territory. Legal immortality. Recognition. The Mother (without knowing she is the Mother). Civilisation. Hoarding. Pure opposition. And, in the rare cases — bound service to the dance that holds everything.
The yogi reads these stories as inner cartography. Which arm is rising, in me, right now? Whose dance is it drumming for? Has the corruption already entered the city, or is it still a city of gold? Am I Hiraṇyakaśipu drafting another loophole, or Prahlāda content with nothing, or — most honestly, for most of us — Bāṇāsura, with too many arms, playing for a Lord whose dance I can only partly see?
Oscar Wilde’s dark fairy tale about one-sided friendship — and what it reveals about the extraction that calls itself devotion. Full text, with ecological framing.
A working record of what was built, by how many people, and in what order — from a payroll of fifty-four to five properties on three stacks, rebuilt single-handed. Appended as the work proceeds.
What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and relational life.
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