For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish
For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish
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Different Ways To Use Khaḍgamālā Stotram
We ended our last conversation (What Is The Śrī Cakra? | Yoginī Hṛdāya, Verses 1-18) with an invitation to start chanting regularly the Devī Khaḍgamālā which yo...
Getting Started With Śrī Vidyā: The Path of Beauty, Bliss & Eros
Since we recently took up a concerted study of a rather high level text in the non-dual śākta tradition, the Yoginī Hṛdāya (the last 3 chapters of a much larger work in the Śrī Vidyā tradition, Vāmakeśvarīmatatantra in 8 chapters) at our weekly...
Who Can Practice Tantra? | An Apology
Tantra has often been considered a closed tradition because its texts and the teachings transmitted in them on maṇḍala/cakra (geometric diagrams representing the retinue of deities as emanations of the central deity/ a ...
re: Dīkshā, Tāntrik Initiation
Because we are all of us different, naturally, we want different things out of life and out of spirituality and we so all come to it with different expectations and values and backgrounds. Often, this means we're going to have different (and eq...
How Did Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra & Kali Come To America? | Vivekananda's Legacy
Earlier this year, on Vivekananda Jayanti, I gave a talk on the early days of the Vedanta movement in America, when a few enthusiastic Americans in New York in 1895 gathered in a one bedroom apartment to hear this strange man from India with st...