Purāṇas & Itihāsa
The narrative inheritance — Mahabharata, Ramayana, the eighteen Puranas, and adjacent texts like Katha Sarit Sagar. Sacred time, cyclical history, and the mythic imagination of Bharata.
25 connected nodes
mahabharata
cosmology
sacred geography
pilgrimage
dynastic history
krishna bhakti
blog
14 Lokas and 0 Telescopes - The Cosmos SETI Cannot Scan
puranas and itihasa
civilizational consciousness
svayambodha
blog
Brahmacāriṇī | Navadurgā - Part 2
Second in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Brahmacāriṇī Devī - the form of Durgā who represents austerity, renunciation, and the discipline through which the soul approaches the absolute.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Candraghaṇṭā | Navadurgā - Part 3
Third in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Candraghaṇṭā Devī - the warrior form whose crescent-bell emblem signals the transition from inner austerity to active, world-facing śakti.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma
Drawing on H. G. Wells, the Mahābhārata, and dhārmika philosophy to argue that the collapse of the distinction between culture and barbarism is a civilizational crisis - and that dharma is the only framework adequate to it.
civilizational consciousness
puranas and itihasa
civilizational consciousness
blog
Kālarātri | Navadurgā - Part 7
Seventh in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Kālarātri Devī - the most fearsome form, destroyer of darkness and ignorance, whose terrifying appearance conceals absolute protection for the devotee.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Kātyāyanī | Navadurgā - Part 6
Sixth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Kātyāyanī Devī - the fierce warrior form born to destroy the demon Mahiṣāsura, and the deity invoked for strength in the face of civilizational threat.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Kūṣmāṇḍā | Navadurgā - Part 4
Fourth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Kūṣmāṇḍā Devī - the form who created the universe with her smile, and who is propitiated for health, vitality, and the removal of darkness.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Mahāgaurī | Navadurgā - Part 8
Eighth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Mahāgaurī Devī - the luminous, peaceful form that follows Kālarātri, representing the purity and grace that emerge after the destruction of all that is false.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Rāma’s Journey – the Avatāra in You, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay
Rāma's exile and return as inner journey - reading the Rāmāyaṇa as a map of the soul's trajectory - and why Dīpāvalī marks a cosmological reorientation of consciousness.
puranas and itihasa
festivals and living tradition
civilizational consciousness
blog
Recollection: The Glory of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī
A pilgrimage to Mathurā, the city of Kṛṣṇa's birth - how a journey through the geography of the Kṛṣṇa legend becomes a direct encounter with the living presence of the divine in place, available to anyone who knows how to look.
puranas and itihasa
festivals and living tradition
svayambodha
blog
Śailaputrī | Navadurgā - Part 1
Opening the Navadurgā series - an introduction to the Navarātrī tradition followed by the theology and iconography of Śailaputrī Devī - daughter of the mountain, first of the nine forms, embodiment of primal śakti.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Siddhidātrī | Navadurgā - Part 9
Ninth and final in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Siddhidātrī Devī - the granter of all siddhis, the form who completes the Navarātrī cycle and whose worship is the culmination of the entire nine-day journey.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Skandamātā | Navadurgā - Part 5
Fifth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Skandamātā Devī - mother of Skanda (Kārttikeya), the form that holds together the energies of motherhood, courage, and cosmic order.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
Śrī Rāma Comes Back to Ayodhyā
The Ram Janmabhūmi movement as civilizational memory rather than political campaign - how the 500-year struggle for Ayodhyā maps onto the deeper Hindu understanding of sacred geography and the permanence of divine presence in place.
puranas and itihasa
civilizational consciousness
svayambodha
blog
Turners of Time - How Hindu Festivals Rotate the Year
Holi and Hindu festivals as turners of time - how the festival calendar structures experience, transmits ecological wisdom, and keeps alive the felt relationship between human life and cosmic rhythm across generations.
festivals and living tradition
puranas and itihasa
svayambodha
blog
राम आयेंगे!
A first-person account of the devotional groundswell preceding the 2024 Ayodhyā pratiṣṭhā - what a spontaneous civilizational awakening looks and feels like from the inside - and what it reveals about the living roots of Hindu consciousness.
puranas and itihasa
civilizational consciousness
svayambodha