Jaago Maa

This story begins with the Mahalaya dawn of a six-year-old boy. That same boy later encounters the many forms of Shakti across diverse landscapes: in the desolate expanse of Tanot Mata in Rajasthan, in the forests of folk goddesses in Jharkhand, in the puja pandals of Bokaro, in the living consciousness of Kashi and Kolkata, and in the metaphysical depths of Kashmir.

The mysterious manuscripts of Ganak Thakur of Kura, the Akalbodhan worship of Kolbendi, the Kali of Dakshineswar, the science of tantra-mantra-yantra, the division of the Divine into Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati, and Mahakali within the sacred triangle, the esoteric expansion of the Dasha Mahavidya, and finally the thirty-six tattvas of Kashmir Shaiva philosophyall unfold in this journey.

Jago Maa is for all those readers who, at some point in life, have felt that an invisible hand is guiding and protecting them. Moving beyond memory, this book becomes a quest for the questions that arise within every seeker:

If Adi Shakti is one, why does She bear so many different names?

What is the difference between Durga and Chhinnamastika?

How ancient is the form of goddesses in human imagery?

Are tantra and mysticism so often viewed with fear truly as dark as they seem, or do they conceal a profound science of consciousness?

Jago Maa is a confluence of memory, experience, and philosophy, a search for how the ordinary human being of modern life can recognize and realize the Divine Feminine principle.