Mantra
Gāyatrī Mantra
Queen of all mantras — the prayer that returns the light to its singer.
Self-denial as service — a depletion economy.
Soul-singing — strangers cry at her sound-checks.
The Living Song — love as presence, not performance.
The Archive of Stories — her grandmother Mame Yaye is the archivist.
Her egg travels with her grandmother's kora — strung, the reader learns slowly, with strands of Nadine's own hair.
Linked to Eleanor — both voice-keepers whose knowledge was suppressed (Druidic / griotic).
Caregivers and the extracted-from feminine.
The Sisters of this Path walk these tales of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: one a week, in order.
- 1Rāma's Pilgrimage, Dejection and the Arrival of ViśvāmitraRepression → Honesty · Seat 15
- 3Līlā, Padma and the Goddess SarasvatīSeparation → Care · Seat 19
- 9The Great Wilderness: The History of the Human HeartGuilt → Forgiveness · Seat 55
- 38The Vindhya ElephantDenial → Ease · Seat 34
- 45The Vidyādhara's QuestionsDenial → Ease · Seat 58
- 53The Siddha in the Aerial CellGuilt → Forgiveness · Seat 4
- 61Kundadanta and the Hermit of the Kadamba TreeDenial → Ease · Seat 21
Every tale, with its guided practice and its song, in The Sixty-Four Tales of the Supreme Yoga (two volumes, ePub).