Just as we pick up the paintbrush and draw a unique pattern, each woman finds a unique answer to this question in her own life.
The next day, mother was teaching me the different techniques of laterite painting on the walls. How different motifs of the Tantra, like the lotus, the snake and others are placed in a particular order to form a security layer for the house, becoming the nucleus to attract positive energies.
Not just my mother, but all other women impart such knowledge to their daughters as they potter around the house to the rhythm of different songs.
It is said that the secrets of a woman’s body and heart are directly connected to the mysteries of nature, like the waxing and waning of the moon. The lunar cycle of 28 days coincides with the menstrual cycle and is connected with emotional tides. Such tides occur in the seas, within the lower species of living beings as well as in the hearts of poets and lovers.
I once got the chance to ask mother, “What is the Madhura energy of nature? How do women align themselves with it?”
