Mythology Articles
Killing Me Softly
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a styleAnd so I came to see him, and listen for a whileAnd there he was this young one, stranger to my eyesStrumming my pain with his fingersSinging my...
On Fullness and Emptiness, Pūrna and Ṡūnya, Wholeness and Zero
Excerpt from course notes for an Indian mythology course I gave earlier this year. Here and there the text is referring to ideas we explored in greater detail in the class, but I think what I share...
What Difference Does it Make?
This last year teaching online, on many of the courses I have sent out notes to accompany our sessions. Currently, I am enjoying working with the Āditya Hṛdayam hymn to the Sun from the Vālmīki...
The Bhagavad Gītā: Reconciling Paradox and Making the Whole Field Sing
Weaving harmony into the fabric of life and making the whole field sing. A few brief introductory notes to the Bhagavad Gītā. A few notes following last Friday’s two hour talk on the Gītā What’s in...
Holding Out For a Hero Why The Purāṇa-s Matter – an Introduction
Is the perennial more relevant than the single-issue, monoculture tendencies of a contemporary lens might suggest? A few years ago I was speaking with a man that some might call an elder, at the...
Representing That Which is Beyond Representation
At school, I was taught many things that I have since come to consider as being highly inaccurate, misleading, or mistaken. One of these was the idea that Hinduism is a polytheistic religion,...
Inquiry: Five Acts
The first imperative verb in the Bhagavad Gītā is pasya meaning look, be alert, be attentive, pay attention. So we might say that the basic practice in yoga is attentiveness. Yoga practice...
A Few Words About Ganesa Saranam
In the Bhagavad Gītā, one of the most treasured texts of the yoga tradition, yoga is described as ‘samatva’ – ‘evenness’, or the integration of all the powers of our awareness; and as ‘karmasu...
Ancient and Always New
A story stays alive when it stays relevant, when it continues to move people. The story of yoga, of the quest of the individual to recognise his or her innate self, is timeless, and it moves us...
Full Moon Reflection
This was first hand written coming out of shavasana one warm February morning in Mysore. It was the day after a full moon puja and satsang where I first really spoke about the power of satsang, a...