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How To Worship Laxmī
Season 8 Episode 77
Last week, on this day, we celebrated the Sarat-Pūrnimā, the Autumn Full Moon which is considered to be the most auspicious, most beautiful and most …
1 year, 4 months ago
How To Succeed At Tantra & The Worship of The Terrible
Season 8 Episode 76
Many people all over the world are diligently chanting Tantrik mantras and hymns and yet are not getting any results whatsoever. In fact, many people…
1 year, 4 months ago
A Secret Tantrik Hymn | Siddha Kuñjika Stotra
Season 8 Episode 74
Be forewarned:
This is quite a powerful mantra so one's experience of it can be quite intense, especially after chanting it in such a sustained way l…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Most Popular Hymn to the Goddess | Mahiṣāsura-Mardinī Stotram
Season 8 Episode 75
Navarātri is never quite complete until we all get together and chant the Mahiṣāsura-Mardinī Stotram! This hymn is sometimes attributed to Adi Shanka…
1 year, 4 months ago
Cāmuṇḍā Chanting + Kirtan
Season 8 Episode 73
On Navami last week, for our final online Navarātri celebration, we chanted one māla of the siddha-kunjika mantra together, which as it says in the R…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Slaying of Mahiṣāsura
Season 8 Episode 73
Whenever we think of the Goddess Durgā, the image that almost invariable comes to mind is of Her standing on her lion of Dharma with Her right foot, …
1 year, 4 months ago
How Tantrik Mantra & Visualization Works
Season 8 Episode 72
The calling card of Tantrik spiritual practice is creative visualization on rich, complex and thoroughly symbolic imagery along with the repetition a…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Warrior Laxmī
Season 8 Episode 71
The full moon after Sārada Navarātri (Autumn Goddess festival) is known as Laxmī pūjā, the day where we celebrate the Goddess of Beauty, Elegance, Au…
1 year, 4 months ago
Who are the Aṣṭa Mātrikās (The 8 Tantrik Mothers)?
Season 8 Episode 69
The Aṣṭa mātṝkās (the 8 mothers) are so central to Tantrik theory and practice and oh so mysterious! We first meet these 8 fierce, blood drinking, in…
1 year, 4 months ago
Who is Cāmuṇḍā?
Season 8 Episode 70
First, we take a look at the Caṇḍi (Devī Māhātmyam) to see all the different forms of Mā:
1. Mahākālī from chapter I who is described as being blue l…
1 year, 4 months ago