One cannot legislate their way to immortality
The pedagogy of the eighteen Purāṇas is not a tale of monsters defeated. It is a graded description of what consciousness wants when it forgets the…
The Origin of the Mahavidyas: Sati, Daksha, and the Ten Great Wisdoms
The Puranic story of Sati’s confrontation with Daksha and the emergence of the ten Dasa Mahavidyas — the complete map of divine feminine power in …
Vedic Planner — Science of Light Pañcāṅga 2017
A practical pañcāṅga (Vedic almanac) covering the 2017 solar year, calculated for Sacramento CA by Science of Light. Includes retrograde cycles, n…
Varuṇa — The All-Seeing Keeper of Cosmic Order
Varuṇa in the earliest Vedic layer — the all-seeing guardian of ṛta, the cosmic moral order, who binds with the noose and releases through compa…
When Russian and Sanskrit Recognise Each Other
The systematic sound correspondences, shared vocabulary, and parallel grammar that reveal Russian and Sanskrit as cousins across four thousand years o…
Agni — The Vedic Fire, Priest of the Gods, First Word of the Ṛg Veda
Agni as the Ṛg Veda's opening deity — the purohita placed in front, the divine messenger who carries oblations upward and transmits the sacred dow…
The Secret of Health: Yoga and the Inner Ecology of the Mind
Swami Satyananda’s teaching on why physical health without mental hygiene is incomplete — and the precise yoga tools that address the interface wh…
Tantra Shastra: An Introduction
What tantra actually is, why it includes rather than excludes, and how Śakti — the animating energy of all life — sits at the centre of the entir…
Brahma Vidyā: The Agni Purāṇa
The Agni Purāṇa — one of the most encyclopaedic of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas — as a study resource in Brahma Vidyā, the direct knowledge of…
Dharma Yoga: Adi Shankaracharya
How a child from coastal Kerala became the philosopher who systematised Advaita Vedānta and established four living monastic institutions across Indi…
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: Rāma’s Monologue of Despondency
The opening of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — Rāma's great dispassion — and why his ancient crisis of meaning is the tradition's model for genuine enqu…
BSY and Rikhiapeeth: Pilgrimage to the Bihar Yoga Ashrams
A pilgrim’s guide to Bihar School of Yoga in Munger and Rikhiapeeth in Deoghar — two living centres of the Satyananda lineage and how to approach …
Sanskrit and Avestan languages in parallel
Sanskrit and Avestan are not cousins — they are siblings. Two voices from one root, still recognisable in each other's faces across four thousand ye…
Mantra Va — Alakh Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī Mātrā Sāhib Jī (मात्रा साहिब · ਮਾਤਰਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ) with Babaji and Matri
Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī's Mātrā Sāhib — the foundational composition of the Udāsī order, recited daily by the lineage. Jñāna yoga, t…
Mantra Pūrṇāhuti — पूर्णाहुति — Sanskrit and Audiotrack
The pūrṇāhuti — the final offering that seals a Vedic ritual — chanted from the opening invocation of the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad. Audio recor…
Pṛthivī Sūkta — Hymn to the Earth (Atharva Veda)
The foundational text of eco-yoga: 63 verses of the Atharva Veda addressed directly to Earth as living, conscious Mother. "I am the son of Earth, Eart…
Kashmir Shaivism — the 36 tattvas
Trika Shaivism's 36-tattva architecture, in unbroken lineage and brief touches on Chinese alchemy and physics, a note on the four-thousand-year westwa…
Sublime Bhakti Sūtras of Sage Śāṇḍilya
Śrī Śāṇḍilya's hundred sūtras define bhakti as parā anurakti — supreme attachment to the Lord. A less-circulated translation; for those pr…
The Śiva Svarodaya — Alchemy of Sun and Moon
The foundational scripture of svara yoga — the science of the breath — given as a dialogue between Pārvatī and Śiva across 396 verses on nāḍ…
Yoga Branches in a Nutshell
Bhakti, Karma, Rāja, Jñāna — four hands of yoga that work as one body. A foundational map for anyone beginning the path or returning to its roots…