Yearly Archives: 2026

Keelana and Utkeelana: The Lock and Key of Mantra This is one of the most practical and most neglected teachings in all of mantra-shastra, and you have put your finger on exactly why so many sincere sadhakas chant for years with little result. It is not that the mantra failed them. It is that the…

The Sixty-Four Yoginis: The Tantra Everyone Talks About and Almost No One Practices Open any podcast today and you will hear about the 64 Yoginis. Their circular temples, their midnight rites, their fierce beauty. We are glad they are being spoken of again. But we must say something plainly, as people who have sat with…

The Mothers have waited a long time. It is time to call them home. There are goddesses whose temples still stand, whose names are sung in every home. And then there are the Seven Mothers, once among the most powerful deities in India, whose shrines lie in ruins, whose mantras survive only in untranslated manuscripts,…

The Failure of Jupiter: When Darshan Forgets How to See The Failure of Jupiter: When Darshan Forgets How to See If Jupiter is the guru, we have mistaken collecting his notes for passing the exam. In Jyotisha, Jupiter does not force wisdom. He expands whatever he touches. He has expanded knowledge itself, more gurus, more…

When She Does Not Accept Her Shiva: Dhumavati and Sita She does not stop being Shakti when she walks away. She becomes the truth that remains when union is refused. There are two faces of this refusal in our stories, and both are worshipped as wisdom. Dhumavati: the hunger that eats the witness Once Sati,…

Bhuvaneshwari: The Moon Who Holds Space She is the sky that does not abandon the earth. Bhuvaneshwari, fourth of the Mahavidyas, is ruler of the bhuvanas, the worlds. Her body is space itself, vast and luminous, holding all forms without clinging to any. Where Kali dissolves and Chinnamasta severs, Bhuvaneshwari contains. This is why she…

What Belongs to You Cannot Be Stolen There is a love that does not chase. It becomes fire, and what is true returns. Parvathi teaches this. Already Shiva's as Sati, reborn as Himavan's daughter, she did not pull him from samadhi. She sat in the forest. Outer tapas was only the door. Inner tapas turned…

When Ego Desired the Goddess: Mahishasura and Ma Durga There is no love story here, though it begins like one. There is a lesson in what happens when ego mistakes Shakti for an object. Mahishasura, lord of the buffalo demons, had defeated the devas and claimed heaven. Drunk on a boon that no man or…