Three words from Ṛg Veda 9.63.5 — ‘make the whole world noble’ — as a window into the Vedic cosmology of Soma: the lunar-restorative principle that balances Agni’s solar expenditure, the physiology of ojas, and the understanding of practice as an act whose scope is the entire world rather than the individual practitioner alone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The complete Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam from the Brahmanda Purana — a thousand names of the divine feminine as a living map of consciousness, for chanting and meditation.
Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī’s Mātrā Sāhib — the foundational composition of the Udāsī order, recited daily by the lineage. Jñāna yoga, tyāga, tapasyā, and sevā distilled into chant.
The pūrṇāhuti — the final offering that seals a Vedic ritual — chanted from the opening invocation of the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad. Audio recording with Sanskrit, chant guide, and translation.
Trika Shaivism’s 36-tattva architecture, in unbroken lineage and brief touches on Chinese alchemy and physics, a note on the four-thousand-year westward transmission, and a guided contemplation walking the 36 in a single sit.
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