Mantra
Om Tāre Tuttāre Ture Soha
Green Tara — the swift one, who arrives before you finish calling her name.
Perpetual distance as safety — a press pass to every country, a home address to nowhere.
Pattern-sight — sees what locals have stopped being able to see.
The Pilgrim's Heart — moving toward, not away.
The Hall of Planning — where, before incarnation, itineraries are made.
Her egg waits in Hackney while she covers other people's homes; the dragon stirs the night she lowers the camera at the ghat.
Linked to Nadine — Druid priestess-astronomer at a 4th-c. BCE stone circle whose lineage was beaten down across successor lives.
Elders and the memory of the beyond — and the exhausted body taught to call its fatigue laziness.
The Sisters of this Path walk these tales of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: one a week, in order.
- 2Śuka and JanakaDenial → Ease · Seat 57
- 10The Three Princes Who Never WereDenial → Ease · Seat 39
- 12Śukra, Bhṛgu and Kāla (Death)Separation → Care · Seat 33
- 21Gādhi, the Brahmin in the PoolShame → Humour · Seat 12
- 55Vipaścit, the King Who Became FourSeparation → Care · Seat 35
- 58The Hunter and the Sage: The Dream of King SindhuDenial → Ease · Seat 13
- 64The Return: Rāma's Ecstasy, the Court's Hypnotic Rest and the Great JubileeRepression → Honesty · Seat 7
Every tale, with its guided practice and its song, in The Sixty-Four Tales of the Supreme Yoga (two volumes, ePub).