Myth to Mat - Chudula's Hidden Wings - 'The Love That Waits'

Prahlada and Narisimha - 'The Unshakeable Heart'

A Yoga & Myth Workshop on the true love that stays.

We begin the year not with resolutions, but with a love story — though not the kind you might expect. This one, from the vast Yoga Vasistha, is about the love that stays.

Queen Chudala and King Sikhidhvaja rule side by side, until Chudala quietly awakens — to a peace and wisdom so complete that, the story says, she seemed to have hidden wings. Her husband cannot see what she has become; restless for the very peace standing beside him, he abandons his throne for the forest. Chudala doesn't argue, and she doesn't follow in tears. For years, she visits him disguised as a young sage, patiently teaching the husband who never recognises her, until at last he finds his own freedom — and she reveals who his teacher was all along.…