Mūla

At Tiruvanaikkaval the Devi stood in an aspect no worshipper would enter the sanctum to face. Bhagavatpada set a Ganapati before her and a Sricakra in each of her ears, and the Kanchi Pitham has renewed those ear-ornaments ever since.

Bhagavatpada consecrated Mukambika at Kollur and set the kalas in the ear-ornaments of the Devi. What that act is, in the grammar of the Agamas and of Srividya, and why the ears are the one place it could be performed.

On Āṣāḍha Pūrṇimā — the line of gurus who carried the Veda down to us, the seat Bhagavān Vyāsa left behind that is occupied somewhere on this earth every single day, and what has been done in our own lifetime to the meaning of the word guru.

He was made a sannyāsī at thirteen without being asked, held the seat of Śaṅkara at Kāñcī for eighty-seven years, walked the length and breadth of Bhārata twice on foot, lived on a handful of puffed rice a day, and was received by presidents, physicists and village women alike as the walking God.

Twenty-five accusations have been laid against the Manusmrti for two hundred years. Not one of them survives contact with the Sanskrit.

When scripture promises freedom from death, it is not promising that the body will not fall. It is promising release from the wheel on which the body falls again and again.

The shortest of the principal Upaniṣads — twelve mantras of prose — and the tradition holds it sufficient by itself for liberation. A contemplation of the whole text on the spine of Śaṅkara's bhāṣya, scaffolded by the twenty-nine kārikās of Gauḍapāda's Āgama-prakaraṇa, and read outward into the wider śruti.

Eight Sanskrit words that contain the whole tradition. A close reading with translation, gloss, and commentary.

<em>Yogaḥ cittavṛttinirodhaḥ</em>. The most famous sūtra in classical Indian thought is also the most over-translated.