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You are wholeheartedly invited into my world of writing. Yoga in simple language for all ages and genders. Enjoy reading THE SPINE, MYST MEGHA MYTH…

A boy at the door of Death is offered everything, and refuses. Not because wealth is bad — because he has noticed the substitution. A person is not to be satisfied by wealth.

Śivāmbu — the water of Śiva — is the traditional name for amaroli, the tantric practice the Ḍāmara Tantra traces to Śiva himself. A window onto the tradition.

Ninety minutes, six people, a decision that needed eleven. Nothing was taken in any sense a ledger would record — and nine hours of human life are gone.

Climb the 272 steps at Batu Caves on Thaipusam morning, and you meet the Tamil Siddhar tradition still alive on the Malay peninsula — temple, vaidya, kitchen, and lineage.

A person can be scrupulously honest with everyone they meet and still be living inside a lie. Satya is not a rule about speech — it is a discipline of correspondence.

Gaṅgānātha Jhā’s 1907 English rendering of the Yoga Sūtras with Vyāsa’s Bhāṣya — one of the earliest rigorous Sanskrit-to-English translations by an Indian scholar trained in both traditions. Public domain…

Brahma means higher awareness; ācharya means to live in. The word is about where a person lives, not about what they may do in bed — and Patañjali’s own text refuses the household exemption.

Prince Rāma returns from his travels and stops eating. The sage Vasiṣṭha is called to counsel him. From that hush rose the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — one of India’s longest, deepest meditations on consciousness.

The tradition had karuṇā and dayā available and named the restraint by negation anyway. Ahiṃsā does not ask you to add kindness. It asks you to stop the injury.

One Sanskrit word — atha, ‘now’ — opens the most precise statement of the inner science of yoga ever written. A companion piece to Patañjali’s 196 threads.

Patañjali calls the five restraints a single great vow, unqualified by birth, place, time or circumstance. Not five virtues — five places where a life stops leaking.

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 knowing.

Patañjali’s four conditions for a practice that holds are all about time, not talent. The season built on them fails in one specific way — not through laziness, but through never leaving.

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 older than the roof.