A Gift for Navratri

October 8, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Then I saw that there was not only one but three flowers on this day, the very first day of Navratri, the Nine Nights – for me, the most important of the year’s festivals. I fell to my knees.

Ludovica and the Art of Yoga

October 17, 2021.Reading time 34 minutes.

More than the story of how the press never discovered Ludovica’s scandal, my story is one about ageing. About ethics. But more importantly, it is about how the vision of Yoga is transformational.

Ludovica e a Arte do Yoga

October 17, 2021.Reading time 34 minutes.

Mais do que a história de como a imprensa nunca descobriu sobre o escândalo de Ludovica, minha história fala sobre envelhecimento. Sobre ética. Porém, mais importante, sobre como a visão do Yoga é transformadora.

Gloria Arieira’s Yoga sutras of Patañjali

January 10, 2021.Reading time 26 minutes.

“The Yoga Sutras?” I laughed, “Why read them when there is the Bhagavadgita?” I had never imagined I would translate them the way I had done for the Gita.

uma foto abandonada

September 17, 2020.Reading time 24 minutes.

Mas o que realmente me impediu de acionar a câmera, e me fez colocá-la de volta no estojo, perdendo o que poderia ter sido a foto perfeita, uma cápsula do tempo, foi uma sensação semelhante à que ocorre pouco antes de se colher uma flor, quando a dúvida interfere na escolha de se possuir a beleza destruindo-a.

The Untaken Frame

September 10, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It was an honor to have the story of the picture I chose not to take to be selected by JAGGERY, the literay jounal of South Asia:

Growing in Plain sight

May 24, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Following Amazonian wisdom that all the medicine one needs in life will already be there, growing at one’s feet. I decided not only to let the weed growing on my windowsill live, I gave it its own pot.

The Veda and Voltaire

February 22, 2020.Reading time 12 minutes.

Does everything really happen for the best? I snarl, as Voltaire most probably did, challenging Leibniz with comedy and wisdom amid a world of atrocities.

The Bhagavadgita | e-book

February 10, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

It is with great pleasure I announce the e-book version of my translation of the Bhagavadgita by Padma Shri award-winning author and Vedanta teacher, Gloria Arieira