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…
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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…
Friday Kirtan at Mata’s
Every Friday 6–8pm, the Ecology Yoga community gathers at Mata's for two hours of devotional singing — call and response, Sanskrit bhajans, mantra…
Healing Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Havan at Mata’s on Saturdays
Every Saturday, the Ecology Yoga community gathers for a havan centred on the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra — the ancient Vedic fire ritual with offerin…
Shri Kailashpati Mandir — A Temple Raised From the Ground It Stands On
A copper kalaśa given before there was any roof to put it on, and the mud-mix temple that rose to meet it — month by month, from 2021 to 2023.
Shri KailashPati Mandir — The Foundation Stone, and the River That Made It
June 2021: a fire that may not go out, a liṅga no hand carved, and a copper crown that had waited four years for a roof. The foundation of a temple …