Yoga Darśana — Gaṅgānātha Jhā (1907)
Gaṅgānātha Jhā's 1907 English rendering of the Yoga Sūtras with Vyāsa's Bhāṣya — one of the earliest rigorous Sanskrit-to-English translat…
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The Supreme Yoga (Yoga Vāsiṣṭha) — Vol. 1: Vasiṣṭha’s Counsel to a Disillusioned Prince
Prince Rāma returns from his travels and stops eating. The sage Vasiṣṭha is called to counsel him. From that hush rose the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha —…
The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali — An Interpretive Edition
One Sanskrit word — atha, 'now' — opens the most precise statement of the inner science of yoga ever written. A companion piece to Patañjali's 19…
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga — Yogi Ramacharaka (1907)
An American autodidact in 1907, a forest dialogue three thousand years older, and the discipline both were trying to name: neti neti, the yoga of know…
The Great Night — Mahāśivarātri, and the Hour a Stone Was Given Its Breath
On 1 March 2022 a black stone at Middle Pocket was bathed at half past midnight and made a temple. The night it happened on is four thousand years old…
Tamil Studies — M. Srinivasa Aiyangar (1914)
M. Srinivasa Aiyangar's 1914 doorway into one of the oldest continuously spoken classical languages on earth — the Saṅgam academies, the five ti…
54 — 10 — ONE
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…
The Citta Is Ours Together — Shared Memory, Collective Awakening, and the Door That Closes on No One
A bandit who could not say Rāma sat repeating marā, marā until the syllables turned holy and the anthill rose over him. The grooves of mind can be …
Every Village Is a Limb of the Mother — The Om Sakthi Song and the Landmarks as the Goddess’s Body
A song climbs a long ladder of names — Madurai's Mīnākṣī, Kāśī's Viśālākṣī, Mysore's Cāmuṇḍī — until the whole map of the coun…
The Fire That Was Brought — The Vedic Prometheus, and the One Flame Behind All Fires
Prometheus stole it in a fennel stalk; Mātariśvan bore it down on the wind to the Bhṛgus. Every tradition remembers the same astonishing fact: the…
Sri Guru Stotram — Salutations to the Teacher
The fifteen shlokas of the Sri Guru Stotram with IAST transliteration and English translation — for chanting on Guru Purnima and daily practice. Aud…
Kṛṇvanto Viśvam Āryam — The Soma Prayer of the Ṛg Veda
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 t…
Karma Yoga — The Path of Union, and the Grip That Turns Work into Suffering
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…
The Book of Books — Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulsīdās: A Living Text for a World in Exile
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 …
The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's 'The Nightingale and the Rose' — a complete and unreceived sacrifice. The full story, with ecological commentary on giving without con…
The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath – Ramamcharaka
An early 20th-century survey of yoga within the Hindu religious and philosophical framework — āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra, and the classical dar…
Chandas — Basics of Veda Svaras and Vedic Recital
An 18-page introduction to Vedic chandas (metrical feet) and svara (pitch-accent system) — one of the six Vedāṅgas. Covers the major meters (gāy…
The Inner Sky — Steven Forrest
Steven Forrest's foundational text of evolutionary psychological astrology (1984) — the birth chart as a portrait of psychological terrain, not a pr…
The Complete Book of Herbal Teas
A comprehensive handbook on herbal teas for health, pleasure, and daily ritual — organised by both plant and purpose. Situates the practice within t…
Self-Discipline in 10 Days — Theodore Bryant
Theodore Bryant's 153-page practical guide to building self-discipline as a learnable skill — structured in ten daily chapters. A Western psychologi…
Yoga in Daily Life
A systematic approach to bringing yoga practice off the mat and into the rhythms of ordinary days — morning protocols, breath practice integrated wi…
Tibetan Dream Yoga — Milam, Six Yogas of Nāropa
A practitioner's guide to milam — dream yoga as transmitted through the Six Yogas of Nāropa. Covers the preparatory practices (recognition of the d…
The Butter Thief — Kṛṣṇa’s Makhan-Chor Cycle
The makhan-chor cycle — Kṛṣṇa's childhood thefts of butter in Braj — as a sustained text of Vaiṣṇava theology. The butter is śakti in i…
The Heartbeat of the Absolute — Osho on the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad
Osho's discourses on the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad — eighteen verses that open with the declaration that the entire universe is pervaded by the divine…
Śānti Mantra — Om Saha Nāv Avatu (Kena/Taittirīya Upaniṣads)
The peace invocation of the Kena, Katha, Śvetāśvatara, and Taittirīya Upaniṣads — chanted before and after every teaching session in the Vedic…
Full Śānti Path — Four Mantras: Asato Mā, Mahāmṛtyuñjaya, Tvameva Mātā
The complete Śānti Path — four prayers from different Vedic currents held together: the Bṛhadāraṇyaka passage from unreal to real, the prayer…
Mātṝkā in Sahasrāra — 50 Seed Syllables Across the Cakras (×20)
The fifty mātṝkā seed syllables of the Sanskrit alphabet distributed across the six primary cakras — Mūlādhāra through Ājñā — chanted tw…
Saṅkaṭanāśana Gaṇeśa Stotram — 13 Stanzas with Transliteration and Translation
The Saṅkaṭanāśana Gaṇeśa Stotram — thirteen stanzas naming the twelve primary epithets of Gaṇeśa, as narrated by Nārada. Recited at the…
Shrimad Bhagavad Gītā — Bilingual Sanskrit and English Edition
A 77-page bilingual edition of the Bhagavad Gītā presenting the complete Sanskrit Devanāgarī text alongside an English translation. All 18 adhyāy…
Dīpajyotiḥ — Prayer While Lighting a Lamp
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…