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Completeness is achieved when positive and negative forces come together, says YOGI ASHWINI In every aspect of creation, you will observe polarity. For every positive there exists a negative — day and night, white and black, sound and silence — together they are poorna or whole. Take Shiva and Shakti, two opposites, they merge, representing poornata or completeness in brahmand or universe. Shiva and Shakti pertain to vyakt, the manifest creation. They emerge from the primordial element that is avyakt or unmanifest. Only when the merger of Shiva and Shakti is complete can one realise the unmanifest, which is the purpose of yoga and Sanatan kriya. Shiva is karta or doer, and could be likened to a vehicle. If you remove ‘I’ from Shiv, it becomes shav (corpse). The ‘I’ represents Shakti, which is the fuel that energises the vehicle to perform action. Shakti is the force of the physical world. Without the merger of Shiva and Shakti, everything is incomplete. What is light wit...

TIMES NEWS NETWORK        Age is just a number. So believes Yogi Ashwini (in pic), head of Dhyan Foundation, a body that believes in teaching yoga for free. Addressing management delegates at IIM-B, he said, “There is no such thing as a number. When the senses begin to dull, it means you are aging. It could happen when you are 20 or 80; it’s entirely in your hands.”     People in their 20s and 30s are graying and balding. Why? “The root cause is a bent spine. When the spine bends, it’s the first sign of ageing,” explains the Yogi, who launched his book ‘The Ageless Dimension’ at the spirituality conference. As stress levels overwhelm people of all age groups, women in India are countering ‘age-discrimination’ because their biological clocks are ticking, whereas men don’t. “Brahmacharya Kriya counters this problem among women. The process of biological aging is not restricted to women!” he says.     What then is t...

Yogi Ashwini Modern science believes oxygen is life and is an indispensable energy. Our Rishis have proved that it is not the breath but prana that is responsible for life in the body. Our health and vitality, emotional and financial states, joys and maladies, diseases and glowing health are all dependent on the frequency of prana that vibrates in and around us. The complete system of our pranic body of the chakras, nadis and koshas is dependent on the prana that we are receiving from the environment around us. Pranayama is a salutation to this prana. It is said by the great rishis that the human body can survive without food for months, without water for weeks, without air for hours, but not even for a nanosecond without the vital prana. But to be able to retain the prana, the nadis and chakra in the pranamaya kosha should be clean and pure without blockages and the prana should move freely. Only then can the vital prana be held. Disease manifests in the human body as...

The Creation is based on certain laws, which govern it, the Law of Karma being the foremost. It is not a mere coincidence that every major religion of the world talks about the Law of Karma. Karma is anything you do, whether in thought or in deed. In fact, every action is first a thought. The Law of Karma holds that what you sow, so shall you reap. Everything in the universe is a complete cycle. Life is a cycle of life and death. Life span is again a cycle of birth, infancy, childhood, youth, middle age, old age and again a new birth, infancy. Each and every event at any stage in this lifespan is an experience, and every experience is the result of a past karma. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, again the next morning, it rises in the east — an unfailing cycle. A tree sheds its leaves only to have new ones again — another unfailing cycle. The whole of Creation is governed by the Law of Karma. In fact, Creation itself is the result of this universal law. At first ...

YOGI ASHWINI Om poornamidah poornamidam poornaata poornam uddachhyate Poornasya poornamaadaaya poornamevaava shishyate Om. The above sloka implies that infinity plus infinity is infinity, infinity minus infinity is infinity, infinity multiplied by infinity is infinity and infinity divided by infinity is also infinity. The brahmand is a complete whole. Everything has emerged from it and will go back to it. It has no boundaries; it is infinite. Our body is a poorna ansh (complete aspect) of creation. Like everything else in creation, our body too is run on the principle of balance and imbalance. When you are in a state of balance, you exude health, beauty, glow and radiance. You possess the magnetism and attraction of entire creation. However, whenever there is imbalance, disease and ageing set in. These days most schools that are teaching yog follow a piecemeal approach. You will find men claiming to be ‘yoga instructors’ selling exercises to sharpen eyes, abnormal breathing s...

इसी शरीर में उम्र पर जीत - योगी अश्विनी हजारों साल पहले ऋषि, साधु संत और योगी लंबी उम्र तक युवा रहते थे। शरीर बूढ़ा हो जाता तोे कायाकल्प जैसे प्रयोग करते और शरीर को फिर युवा बना लेते थे। यह कैसे संभव था? जानने के लिए लिए योगी अश्विनी ने लंबे प्रयोग किए। उनसे हुई बातचीत के अंश- ०अब तो विज्ञान ने काफी तरक्की कर ली हैं। असाध्य लगने वाली बीमारियों के इलाज भी आसान हो गए हैं। फिर भी रोग क्यों बढ़ रहे हैं? -हम प्रकृति के खिलाफ जा रहे हैं। इसी वजह से रोग और बुढापे की समस्या विराट हो रही है। हम तेजी से बूढ़े हो रहे हैं। हरित क्रांति और औद्योगिक क्रांति से प्रदूषण बढ़ा है और कई तरह की बीमारियां पैदा हुई हैं। ०योग इन दिनों फैशन में हैं। शरीर को स्वस्थ रखने में वह कितना कामयाब है? -आज योग का जो रूप दिखता है , वह आध्यात्मिक कम व्यायाम ज्यादा है। जिस तरह इसका प्रचार हो रहा है, उसे तमाशा ही कह सकते हैं। योग गंभीर विषय है। 0 होड़ और भागम भाग भरी आज की जिंदगी में लोग तनावग्रस्त हैं। योग से इसे किस हद तक मदद मिलती है? -योग के अभ्यास के साथ सोचने समझने का तरीका भी बदलना होगा। अष्टांग योग में ध...

YOGI ASHWINI. Yoga is a subject of energy or prana, which manifests in various permutations and combinations to form every aspect of creation. Prana is ‘the force’ in the universe and permeates all; it’s also the life force in a human body. When Swami Nada Brahmananda smeared his body with wax and sustained himself in glass enclosure without air, food and water, it was proved that it is not oxygen on which the body thrives. There exists a force beyond. The exchange of prana takes place through four major sources — food, breath, touch and sight. While the first two have been explored at length by modern science, Vedic rishis were not unaware of the importance of the others. Every time you touch someone or something there occurs an exchange of prana, altering an individual’s composition. Similarly, sight is a major source of prana exchange. In fact, ninety five per cent of the prana you receive flows out from the eyes; hence the importance of drishti of guru. Many thousand years ago Vedi...