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Brahmacāriṇī | Navadurgā - Part 2
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Candraghaṇṭā | Navadurgā - Part 3
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Kālarātri | Navadurgā - Part 7
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Kātyāyanī | Navadurgā - Part 6
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Kṣetra, Śāstra, Utsava
# divine, sacred
On the axis connecting festival (utsava), sacred geography (kṣetra), and scripture (śāstra) - how Hindu festivals are to time what temples are to space - gradients of divine access that structure both the year and the land.
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Kūṣmāṇḍā | Navadurgā - Part 4
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Mahāgaurī | Navadurgā - Part 8
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Rāma’s Journey – the Avatāra in You, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay
# rama, avatar, avatara
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.
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Recollection: The Glory of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī
# divine, krishna
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.
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Śailaputrī | Navadurgā - Part 1
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Siddhidātrī | Navadurgā - Part 9
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Skandamātā | Navadurgā - Part 5
# devi, navaratri, durga
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.
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Śrī Rāma Comes Back to Ayodhyā
# divine, rama, sacred
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.
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राम आयेंगे!
# rama
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.
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Hindu Dharma Radhakrishnan
# krishna
Essay by S. Radhakrishnan presenting Hindu dharma as a living, adaptive, and philosophically grounded religious tradition.
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Maitrayaniya Upanishad
# cosmology
English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline.
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The Nyaya Theory of Knowledge
# rama
Study of Nyaya epistemology with emphasis on pramanas, error, and valid cognition.
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Modernity in TV Drama
# rama
Reflections on tradition vs. modernity from the TV show Yellowstone.
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Temples of Madhya Pradesh
# sacred
What do three hundred surviving ancient temple sites of Madhya Pradesh reveal about the full range of Hindu sacred architecture - and what was lost to medieval destruction? A deep architectural and sculptural study of ten major temple clusters, making the grammar of Hindu temple-building legible.
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Is Modernity Compatible With Hindu Values
# rama
Is modernity - with its secularism, rights-framework, and assault on varṇāśrama dharma - compatible with Hindu values, or structurally hostile to Hindu civilization?
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James Lovelock
# cosmology
The scientist who revived the idea that Earth is a self-regulating living system and named it Gaia - which is less a metaphor than a description of something Hindu cosmology had always held without needing a laboratory to prove it.
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SK Ramachandra Rao
# rama
A Karnataka polymath whose encyclopedic work on Hindu iconography and temple architecture reveals the metaphysical logic embedded in every sculptural form and spatial arrangement - the temple not as monument but as cosmological diagram made stone.
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Terence McKenna
# rama
A psychedelic philosopher whose stoned-ape hypothesis, archaic revival, and novelty theory sit at the fringe of respectable discourse but ask the right questions - why did human consciousness change so dramatically, and what exactly is it moving toward?