Mother, Forgive Me — Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, the Crocodile, and the Fire He Promised
The greatest non-dualist who ever lived taught that the world is a dream — then crossed all of India to hold his dying mother, defied his own order …
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A Word Walked Home — The Romani Tongue and Its Sanskrit Kinship
Count to ten in Romani and you are counting in a cousin of Sanskrit. A people treated as strangers everywhere carried, the whole time, the unbroken ev…
Kāla Bhairava, the Black Dog, and the Child at the Gate — The Guardian of the Eternal City
Before you may meet Śiva at Kāśī, you must first seek the permission of the one who guards the gate — Kāla Bhairava, the Kotwāl of Vārāṇas…
The Citta Is Ours Together — Shared Memory, Collective Awakening, and the Door That Closes on No One
A bandit who could not say Rāma sat repeating marā, marā until the syllables turned holy and the anthill rose over him. The grooves of mind can be …
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 Fire That Was Brought — The Vedic Prometheus, and the One Flame Behind All Fires
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…
Karma Yoga — The Path of Union, and the Grip That Turns Work into Suffering
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…
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…
Friday Kirtan at Mata’s
Every Friday 6–8pm, the Ecology Yoga community gathers at Mata's for two hours of devotional singing — call and response, Sanskrit bhajans, mantra…
Healing Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Havan at Mata’s on Saturdays
Every Saturday, the Ecology Yoga community gathers for a havan centred on the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra — the ancient Vedic fire ritual with offerin…
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…
One Charge She Would Not Deny: The Daughter of Fire Speaks
For five thousand years the heroes discussed her. Sutapa Bhattacharya's poem finally lets Draupadī speak. The truest Draupadī we have met.
"a heav…
Raising Up Women and Girls in Society
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 …
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…
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…
Shri Kailashpati Mandir — A Temple Raised From the Ground It Stands On
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.