Preparation The idea to do the Dodital trek formed over several conversations about places in the North. Kasardevi, Kedarnath, Tungnath. A Kriya Yoga camp was scheduled in Uttarakhand at the end of May. We tried to sync the dates but could not. Dodital has a special significance. It is the birthplace of Lord Ganesha, my Ishta Devata. And it is not a popular trek. Very few people go there. As usual, the group expanded, then contracted, with only a few remaining. This always ha

Summary After an evening of mindless social media doom-scrolling, a chance encounter with the Netflix documentary Ram Dass, Going Home unfolds into a meditation on what it means to truly come home to oneself. Filmed in Maui in the final years of Ram Dass's life — decades after the stroke that stripped away his ego and left his body bent — the film distills a lifetime of teaching into two simple words: lovingly aware. This blog walks through the documentary scene by scene, pai

SUMMARY Shiva's iconography isn't decoration. It's yoga shastra rendered in pictorial form, a complete portrait of the realised state. Every ornament maps to something internal. Ganga at the sahasrara. The third eye as jnana-chakshu. Halahala held at the throat in vishuddhi, the most exact yogic instruction in the entire imagery: neither swallowed nor spat, the model for how a mature sadhaka meets difficult content. The crescent moon is the borrowed-light mind worn above the

The Book Appears I came across this book while writing a blog on the Ashtavakra Gita and Kriya Yoga, based on the marble plates in Lahiri Mahasaya’s family home. https://www.limaye.org/post/ashtavakra-gita-as-the-foundation-of-kriya-yoga-going-deeper-within2 A small 125-page book, written by Lahiri Mahasaya, offers a unique perspective — seeing the Ashtavakra Gita in the light of Kriya Yoga. He has written many books, all “in the light of Kriya Yoga.” Every author writes from