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PEARLS BEFORE SWINES

PEARLS BEFORE SWINES YOGI ASHWINI The saying ‘Don’t waste pearls before swines’ traces its origin back to the time when Gyan of Geeta was rendered by Shri Krishna. It has a deep meaning attached to it. How can we ignore the immense knowledge or rightly the Gyan that the people of that era had.

Yoga is a practice, which requires a very strict discipline and a Guru, and, if either is missing there can be no Yoga. It is said that the knowledge or the Gyan should not be wasted in front of the people who don’t value it. That is to say that Gyan should not be imparted in front of the people who come to listen to the discourse not with the aim of imbibing some Gyan but with the sole purpose of defying it or arguing on it or showing disrespect to it. These people are not searching, they are only looking to prove to the world how great they are and much they know, these are people who are ruled by their ego’s.

 A lot of energy is lost in initiating a person on the path of Sadhna by way of...

Yoga-Mastery over the five senses!

"For a normal human being with five basic senses, the satisfaction of these five basic senses is a must. When such a human being holds the hand of a guru, then he or she crosses the sansar sagar and gains complete control and mastery over the five senses. The sense of touch (sexual sense) is one of these senses. Yoga is a mastery over the senses, where if you choose to have sex then you will. However, desire does not control you, but you control desire and may want to indulge for generating a specific kind of heat, which is used to activate the higher senses. (The orgasm has to be held back in this case and a yogi would maintain the sexual heat for two to 48 hours). Ancient rishis were householders, at times having several wives. There is no doubt that a sexual orgasm drains a yogi of the vital sukra (life force) and a person who orgasms frequently doesn’t deserve to be called a yogi (unless he chooses to orgasm at will, for a specific purpose). If a ‘dhongi’ is commercialis...