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.