Mantra
Om Gaṃ Gaṇapataye Namaḥ
Ganesh — remover of obstacles, lord of beginnings. Invoked before every wall, every threshold, every undertaking.
Believing the work is the prayer enough — quiet erasure of her own voice.
Hands that listen — under stress they move correctly before the mind catches up.
Repair as devotion — every closure is an opening.
The banyan at Auroville, older than her father.
Her egg rests near the Dhamek Stupa at Sarnath; the dragon stirs when a hairline opens in a wall she has been listening to for three weeks. The wall says, without mystery, someone is coming.
Linked to all — her teacher Mohan Rao gave her the twelve words carved into every egg nineteen years before she knew why.
The builder of quiet rooms — the one whose work is the prayer of the hand.
The Sisters of this Path walk these tales of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: one a week, in order.
- 5The War of Vidūratha and Sindhu; the Death and Revival of PadmaSeparation → Care · Seat 42
- 11Lavaṇa and the MagicianShame → Humour · Seat 49
- 33Bhagīratha and the Descent of the GangesShame → Humour · Seat 32
- 44The Stag and the HuntsmanDenial → Ease · Seat 24
- 46Indra in the AtomRejection → Gentleness · Seat 9
- 49The Deer-like MindRepression → Honesty · Seat 52
- 50The Great Stone: Vasiṣṭha's Meditation and the World within the RockShame → Humour · Seat 31
Every tale, with its guided practice and its song, in The Sixty-Four Tales of the Supreme Yoga (two volumes, ePub).