In a cold New York room in 1895, Vivekananda told an audience that the office, the kitchen, the street is the path — if you can learn the one nearly impossible thing: how to act without grasping the fruit.
Two Rishis walked in one morning carrying something wrapped in red cloth. What they placed on our altar has been sitting in the yoga hall ever since — waiting for you.
Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ — a complete and unreceived sacrifice. The full story, with ecological commentary on giving without condition.
An early 20th-century survey of yoga within the Hindu religious and philosophical framework — āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra, and the classical darśana of Sāṃkhya-Yoga presented for a general educated readership. A document of the moment when Indian yoga began to translate itself for the West, before the translation became the primary version.
An 18-page introduction to Vedic chandas (metrical feet) and svara (pitch-accent system) — one of the six Vedāṅgas. Covers the major meters (gāyatrī, triṣṭubh, jagatī, anuṣṭubh) with examples from the Viṣṇu-sahasranāma and Lalitā-sahasranāma.
Steven Forrest’s foundational text of evolutionary psychological astrology (1984) — the birth chart as a portrait of psychological terrain, not a prediction. For practitioners working at the intersection of self-inquiry and astrological symbolism.
A comprehensive handbook on herbal teas for health, pleasure, and daily ritual — organised by both plant and purpose. Situates the practice within the ecological understanding that medicine cannot be separated from the place that produced it.
Theodore Bryant’s 153-page practical guide to building self-discipline as a learnable skill — structured in ten daily chapters. A Western psychological companion to the tradition’s own analysis of vāsanā, saṃskāra, and the development of the stable mind that sustains practice.
A systematic approach to bringing yoga practice off the mat and into the rhythms of ordinary days — morning protocols, breath practice integrated with work, evening wind-down, and the understanding that every transition between states is an opportunity for awareness. Situates yoga as an ecological practice, not a fitness regime.
A practitioner’s guide to milam — dream yoga as transmitted through the Six Yogas of Nāropa. Covers the preparatory practices (recognition of the dream state, stabilisation, transformation), the relationship between milam and tummo, and the view that the dream state is an intermediate training ground for the bardo. For serious practitioners of Tibetan Buddhist tantra.
The makhan-chor cycle — Kṛṣṇa’s childhood thefts of butter in Braj — as a sustained text of Vaiṣṇava theology. The butter is śakti in its most condensed, most nourishing form; the theft is the divine’s refusal to be bound by propriety. Includes Sūrdās’s pada tradition, Yaśodā’s vision of the cosmos in Kṛṣṇa’s mouth, and the bhakti understanding that divine love exceeds all rule.
Osho’s discourses on the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad — eighteen verses that open with the declaration that the entire universe is pervaded by the divine (īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvaṃ). Osho reads the Upaniṣad as a teaching on renunciation without asceticism: possess nothing, enjoy everything. Copyright: Osho International Foundation.
The peace invocation of the Kena, Katha, Śvetāśvatara, and Taittirīya Upaniṣads — chanted before and after every teaching session in the Vedic tradition. With syllable-by-syllable stress marking, Devanāgarī, and translation.
The complete Śānti Path — four prayers from different Vedic currents held together: the Bṛhadāraṇyaka passage from unreal to real, the prayer for the welfare of all beings, the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya, and the declaration of total refuge. With full transliteration and translation.
The fifty mātṝkā seed syllables of the Sanskrit alphabet distributed across the six primary cakras — Mūlādhāra through Ājñā — chanted twenty times in full sequence. A preparatory practice before mantra sādhana or meditation, drawn from the Śākta tantric tradition.
The Saṅkaṭanāśana Gaṇeśa Stotram — thirteen stanzas naming the twelve primary epithets of Gaṇeśa, as narrated by Nārada. Recited at the three daily junctures for the dissolution of obstacles. Complete with transliteration and translation.
A 77-page bilingual edition of the Bhagavad Gītā presenting the complete Sanskrit Devanāgarī text alongside an English translation. All 18 adhyāyas — from Arjuna’s crisis on Kurukṣetra through Kṛṣṇa’s final teaching on action without attachment to fruit.
Two verses for the lighting of a lamp — the first invoking the flame’s power to bring auspiciousness and dissolve enmity, the second naming the lamp as parabrahma itself. With Devanāgarī, transliteration, and full translation. For use at any altar, lamp, or candle.
Two verses from the Śrī Guru Stotram (Guru Vandanam) — the first establishing the guru’s identity with Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara, the second giving the fourfold map of how the guru-principle operates in practice: in meditation, worship, mantra, and liberation.
The Tantrokta Devī Suktam in full — thirty verses recited at the close of the Devī Māhātmya, addressing the Goddess as she manifests in consciousness, wisdom, sleep, hunger, shadow, compassion, confusion, and every other quality of experience. With complete transliteration and Devanāgarī.
The complete Hanumān Chālīsā — Tulsīdāsa’s 16th-century Awadhi devotional poem, forty verses and two dohās, with full transliteration. The most widely recited devotional text in the Hindu tradition.
Peer-reviewed paper (J. Hum. Ecol. 17(4), 2005) by Padhy, Dash, and Padmavati examining the astrological basis of human character from an ethno-biological perspective — a scholarly engagement with the Jyotiṣa framework and its claim that celestial rhythms shape biological life.
The Liṅgāṣṭakam in eight stanzas — each ending with the same declaration of prostration before Sadāśiva’s liṅga. With full transliteration. A complete practice in the Śaiva devotional tradition.
The one-verse śloka given by Śiva to Pārvatī — chanting Rāma’s name three times is equal in sanctity to reciting the Viṣṇu Sahasranāma in full. Nine rounds of recitation with Devanāgarī, transliteration, and translation.
A 38-page guide from the Sound Yoga Academy mapping the cakra bīja seed syllables (LAM, VAM, RAM, YAM, HAM, OM) and the mātr̥kā — the fifty Sanskrit phonemes as goddess forms distributed across the tantric body. Reference material for any cakra-based or tantric practice.
A 21-verse stotra to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā with Sanskrit and English — each verse invoking a different aspect of the Goddess — followed by a reading on the Divine Mother and a video of the Lalitā Sahasranāma prayer by Craig Pruess and Ananda.
Eight-canto hymn to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā, attributed to Ādi Śaṅkarācārya. Full text in IAST and Devanagari with English translation. Sung by Lalitha Sagari.
Every Friday 6–8pm, the Ecology Yoga community gathers at Mata’s for two hours of devotional singing — call and response, Sanskrit bhajans, mantras from the Śaiva and Śākta traditions. Recording from a recent gathering.
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.
Every Saturday, the Ecology Yoga community gathers for a havan centred on the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra — the ancient Vedic fire ritual with offering, stotra, kirtan, and saṅkalpa. For healing, transformation, and the cultivation of what the fire does that fire alone can do.
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