Learning ·a floor · lake, then topic
Verses
A mantra, a poem, a raga — and what each is for.
the other way down
every lake, as its own floor
the therapy lake · the consciousness lake · the learning lake
- Raga: Music for the HourRagas are matched to hours of the day and states of mind, in a tradition Hindustani musicians still keep. Five ragas, and when each is sung.consciousness
- Lalitā SahasranāmaA hymn of a thousand names for the goddess Lalitā, from the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa. Six of the thousand, in order, as they open the text.consciousness
- Throat SingingSix sounds from one throat: Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Inuit. Five are overtone singing; the last is a vocal game that only sounds like it.consciousnessthe same subject, another way — a teaching
- The GāyatrīA verse from the Ṛg Veda, older than almost anything else people still say out loud every day. Four lines, sounded, then read.learning
- RumiThe opening lines of the Masnavi, in Rumi's own Persian — not the softened English paraphrases that circulate as his. Four lines, transliterated, thenlearningthe same subject, another way — portrait
- ShlokasFour short verses that get quoted on their own, each one exact: from the Gita, an Upaniṣad, and one that opens a teacher's blessing before study beginlearning
Or don’t decide.The pool is this floor — all six of its open pages.