Matri Matarishvan
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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.
When Artha was inseparable from Dharma — how indigenous craft and land traditions held the oldest form of ecological economics, and why the thread was cut.
Oscar Wilde's dark fairy tale about one-sided friendship — and what it reveals about the extraction that calls itself devotion. Full text, with ecological framing.
An accessible introduction to yoga nidrā — its tantric roots in nyāsa practice, the layered structure of the mind it works with, and the eight stages of Swami Satyananda's modern system.
What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and relational life.
A first-person pilgrimage report from Tamil Nadu — three extraordinary temples discovered at the end of a five-week yātrā: Thirupullani (Divya Desam 105), Thiruvarur (Thyāgarāja Svāmy and Kamalambal), and Thirumēyachur (the origin-site of the Lalitā Sahasranāma).
Lama Thubten Yeshe on śūnyatā (emptiness) as the single most important realisation — why all saṃsāric suffering traces back to the wrong concept of a real I, and how bodhicitta arises from the kindness of every sentient being.
How traditional Indian gowar (cow dung) biogas systems work — from slurry to digester to gas holder — and why this ancient practice is one of the most practical models of household-scale circular ecology.
In a hall full of the powerful, every mouth stayed locked while Draupadī was dragged by her hair. Satish Srijan's poem, performed by Vaishnavi Sharma, gives the enraged queen her interrogation — and her cry. Grace comes not for the powerful, but for the one who calls with meaning.
For five thousand years the heroes discussed her. Sutapa Bhattacharya's poem finally lets Draupadī speak. The truest Draupadī we have met.
"a heaven that small was never worth the lie"
The tradition does not separate the welfare of women from the welfare of the earth. Both are the Goddess in her most immediate form. What we practise toward one, we practise toward the other.
Matri's reflection on the relationship between how we relate to the women and girls in our lives and how we relate to the earth — the barren soil that feeds no one, the open ear that hears the Mother Earth, the practice that begins at home before it reaches the world.
