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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 4 weeks ago
The Season That Was Taken — On Lives Lived Out of SequenceA tidy diagram of four stages lands on a life with a hole in it like a bill that cannot be paid. What the tradition actually says is that circumstance disqualifies nobody.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 5 weeks ago
54 — 10 — ONEA 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 single-handed. Appended as the work proceeds.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 5 weeks ago
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 tiṇai, the Tamil Cittar yogic lineage.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 5 weeks ago
The Turning Season — Vānaprastha, and the Twenty Years Nobody Planned For“Just sit down, let others do it.” Heard as a demotion it is unbearable. Heard correctly it is the most precise instruction the tradition gives about the years after provision.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 6 weeks ago
Four Things a Life Is Allowed to Want — The Puruṣārthas, and the End of the ApologyThe same civilisation that produced the Yoga Sūtra wrote a manual on running a treasury — and filed money among the legitimate aims of a human life. Permission, precisely bounded.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 6 weeks ago
The Householder Is Not the Lesser Path — Karma Sannyāsa and the Life You Already HaveSannyāsa does not mean giving up. It means holding the whole estate in trust — which a person with children, debts and a job can do without leaving the house.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 7 weeks ago
The Four Seasons of a Life — What the Āśramas Actually DivideFour stages, two legal routes through them, and a structure that is younger than it looks. Most suffering about age turns out to be an argument with which season it is.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new event. 7 weeks ago
Matri Global Publications LaunchJoin us for the launch of Matri Global Publications. This is a one-hour online gathering to mark the books going out into the world —…
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 2 months ago
The Book of Books — Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulsīdās: A Living Text for a World in ExileTwo 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.
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 2 months ago
The Hours That Hold — Sandhyā, the Daily Rule, and the Rhythm the Earth Never BreaksSandhyā means ‘the juncture’ — showing up, on purpose, at the seams of the day, every day, for a life. The yogi’s daily rule and the earth’s circadian rhythm turn out to be one instruction in two languages.
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 months ago
The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath - RamamcharakaAn 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 months ago
Chandas — Basics of Veda Svaras and Vedic RecitalAn 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…
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Matri Matarishvan posted a new post. 2 months ago
Bihar School of Yoga — Ganga Darshan, Munger: The Karma Bhumi of Sri Swami SatyanandaAt four-thirty at Ganga Darshan the Ganges is visible from anywhere on the grounds and the akhand jyoti has been burning since Satyananda lit it in 1963. The founding story, the Bihar Yoga synthesis,…
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 months ago
The Inner Sky — Steven ForrestSteven 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…
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River Orion posted a new post. 2 months ago
The Complete Book of Herbal TeasA 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…
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