Kāmadeva — The Hindu God of Desire, the Flower-Arrowed, the Bodiless
Kāmadeva — the god of desire incinerated by Śiva's third eye and restored as Anañga, the bodiless. His sugarcane bow and five flower arrows, the …
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Every Village Is a Limb of the Mother — The Om Sakthi Song and the Landmarks as the Goddess’s Body
A song climbs a long ladder of names — Madurai's Mīnākṣī, Kāśī's Viśālākṣī, Mysore's Cāmuṇḍī — until the whole map of the coun…
The Book of Books — Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulsīdās: A Living Text for a World in Exile
Two 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 …
The Butter Thief — Kṛṣṇa’s Makhan-Chor Cycle
The makhan-chor cycle — Kṛṣṇa's childhood thefts of butter in Braj — as a sustained text of Vaiṣṇava theology. The butter is śakti in i…
Śrī Hanumān Chālīsā — Complete 40 Verses with Transliteration
The complete Hanumān Chālīsā — Tulsīdāsa's 16th-century Awadhi devotional poem, forty verses and two dohās, with full transliteration. The mo…
Mā Amba Lalithā Devī — Stotra and Devi Prayer
A 21-verse stotra to Mahātripurasundarī Lalitāmbikā with Sanskrit and English — each verse invoking a different aspect of the Goddess — follow…
The Bhagavad Gītā’s Enduring Question
What the Gītā actually asks — and why its answer through karma yoga and dharmic action remains the most practical teaching for ecological and rela…
Where Is the Gāṇḍīva? Draupadī’s Rage in the Locked-Mouthed Hall
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…
Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam — A Thousand Names of Devi
The complete Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam from the Brahmanda Purana — a thousand names of the divine feminine as a living map of consciousness, for chan…
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…