The Esoteric Tantra of Dhanteras: The Night Amrit Becomes Available Everyone knows the exoteric Dhanteras. You buy gold. You buy steel. You light a lamp for Lakshmi and hope wealth stays. The esoteric Dhanteras is older, and it has almost nothing to do with shopping. Its real name in the Agamas is not Dhana-Trayodashi. It…
Hanuman: The Real Rudra - The Bhakt Who Is Tantra Itself Hanuman: The Real Rudra - The Bhakt Who Is Tantra Itself Beyond the image of a humble devotee with folded hands, lies the most feared and revered form of Shiva himself. If you have ever felt Hanuman, you know he is not sweet. He…
Soul Doesn't Eat, Body Does - Does Non-Veg Really Block Spiritual Growth? The question we feel guilty asking Every spiritual seeker who eats non-veg has had this moment. You are meditating, reading the Gita, trying to be pure in thought, and then someone says, "How will you grow spiritually if you eat meat?" And a…
Why Shiva Had to Behead His Own Son The Elephant Head Secret: Why Shiva Had to Behead His Own Son We all know the story. Parvati makes a boy from her bath paste to guard her door. Shiva comes home, the boy doesn't let him in, Shiva in fury cuts his head off. Parvati's grief…
RIN DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN DEBT — IT MEANS GATI BANDHAN We have been taught to fear the word 'Rin'. Rin means debt. Liability. Something you have to repay, something that weighs you down. But what if we've been reading it wrong all our lives? In our Sanskriti, Rin was never meant to be a burden.…

