How important is it to have ones altar not in a southward direction? Someone posted in a forum that south means death.
–from a Jaya Kula reader in Germany

The guardians of the ten directions (dikpalas) are powerful personalities. (more…)

I just read an article by a Vedic astrologer that said it is most important to be in service to one’s parents first and then to one’s guru. What if your parents are abusive, alcoholic, absent or people with whom you have no communication? (more…)

I fell in love with the Ganga (Ganges) last year while doing puja. Although I had bathed in the river at Varanasi, Rishikesh and at the confluence in Devaprayaga, my real love affair with the Ganga began one Sunday afternoon in Northern California. (more…)

The roses offer
themselves to Ma
as they die.
One by one
the petals drop
at her feet
and into her lap. (more…)