A song climbs a long ladder of names — Madurai’s Mīnākṣī, Kāśī’s Viśālākṣī, Mysore’s Cāmuṇḍī — until the whole map of the country becomes one body called by a hundred local names.
Prometheus stole it in a fennel stalk; Mātariśvan bore it down on the wind to the Bhṛgus. Every tradition remembers the same astonishing fact: the fire was not ours to begin with. Someone crossed a great distance to bring it.
In a cold New York room in 1895, Vivekananda told an audience that the office, the kitchen, the street is the path — if you can learn the one nearly impossible thing: how to act without grasping the fruit.
The complete Hanumān Chālīsā — Tulsīdāsa’s 16th-century Awadhi devotional poem, forty verses and two dohās, with full transliteration. The most widely recited devotional text in the Hindu tradition.
Every Friday 6–8pm, the Ecology Yoga community gathers at Mata’s for two hours of devotional singing — call and response, Sanskrit bhajans, mantras from the Śaiva and Śākta traditions. Recording from a recent gathering.
Every Saturday, the Ecology Yoga community gathers for a havan centred on the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra — the ancient Vedic fire ritual with offering, stotra, kirtan, and saṅkalpa. For healing, transformation, and the cultivation of what the fire does that fire alone can do.
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.
The Agni Purāṇa — one of the most encyclopaedic of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas — as a study resource in Brahma Vidyā, the direct knowledge of the ultimate reality.
Sanskrit and Avestan are not cousins — they are siblings. Two voices from one root, still recognisable in each other’s faces across four thousand years of separation.
Bābā Śrī Chand Bhagavān Jī’s Mātrā Sāhib — the foundational composition of the Udāsī order, recited daily by the lineage. Jñāna yoga, tyāga, tapasyā, and sevā distilled into chant.
A copper kalaśa given before there was any roof to put it on, and the mud-mix temple that rose to meet it — month by month, from 2021 to 2023.
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