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Close your eyes. You will open yourself to a vast limitless expanse—the chittakash. Here yogis and sadhaks manifest the unmanifested in deep states of dhyan. How does one experience a limitless expanse between a closed eyelid and the eyeball? It is the first experience of Shiva, which was everything and yet nothing. He is the sum total of opposites—creation being bipolar. Add up the opposites, and the result is zero. Shiva is both purna and shunya. In the higher reaches of Himalayas  sit sadhus in silence, wearing nothing. Yet people from afar undertake arduous journeys  to seek  fulfilment of their desires. How can one, who seemingly has nothing, grant something to those who seemingly have everything, and are unable to acquire? The answer lies in consciousness and the experience of Shiva tatva; of infinity. The higher the level of consciousness rises, the closer he/she is to accessing the infinite, and the greater his/her ability to manifest the ph...

When you sit with your eyes closed, you will notice that your mind is clouded with multiple thoughts — thoughts about the body and health, about job/business and finances, parents, spouse and kids, thoughts about future, thoughts of things gone by. These thoughts translate as stress and weigh down an individual all through life , keeping him/her entangled in the everyday struggle. And before one knows, hair turns grey, spine gets bent, skin is shrivelled, eyesight gets blurred, the body is host to a plethora of diseases, and stress never subsides, thus deteriorating the body further and faster. Psychological stress is, in fact, the prime factor expediting ageing in the body. Stress followed by disease and ageing is because of avidya / agyan . It is impossible for a normal person to get vidya / gyan of reality and become stress-free. A normal person is so tied up that he does not have the time or the inclination for anything beyond. Sanatan kriya and Shanmukhi...

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Yog is a rigorous sadhana. It is constantpractice and if there is a break, you have to start all over again. Keep the ego in check, maintain detachment from the physical, and practice single-pointed focus on stilling the mind. Different kinds of yog cater to different sorts of people with all kinds of desires. For the beginner who comes with lots of desires is Gyan Yog. Other forms of yog like Hath Yog and practices like Sanatan Kriya are for those who can take a guru but also have desires. Within yog’s various forms, the most difficult is Bhakti Yog. There is none above it because it is nishkam and poorna—the yog meant for the adept. In Bhakti Yog is complete surrender to the guru; no scope of ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ exists. A guru could be a book or a stone or a human being in which you have 100 per cent confidence and through which energy is channelised into you. If the guru is human, and has a human body, is something lacking? The problem in Bhakti Yog is that w...

"You eat every day and you sleep every day. They are the essentials of life. Sanatan Kriya is the essential of creation, of which life is just a part...” -Yogi Ashwini Sanatan Kriya, meaning, the complete technique, is a Yogic Kriya based on Vedic texts that encapsulates all the eight limbs of Sage Patanjali’s Ashtang Yog. It is simple to do; involves no complicated twists and turns of the body and has a phenomenal impact on the physical, mental and emotional health of a person. The kriya can easily be inco rporated into the hectic lifestyle of modern man. So what does the kriya do? Sanatan Kriya works on the twin principle of Prakriti and Santulan and helps the being to attain a state of balance in all layers of existence - physical, emotional, financial and mental. As one follows all the steps of Sanatan Kriya in totality, the body comes in balance and disease ceases to enter. When the various layers of the body get balanced, certain profound spiritual experiences follo...

It is the desires that tie one to the individual consciousness. Once these are removed, the being becomes one with the supreme consciousness, writes  Yogi Ashwini Love is the four- letter word  on which epics have been composed, movies based, songs and poems attributed. And yet, if you look at any great  love story , you will find that the end is always tragic; the story ends with the separation of the lovers. The truth is that there is no such thing as love, and realising this is enlightenment. Every person in the world is looking for love, yet there is hardly anyone who is aware of it. Today one spends a lifetime in the pursuit of the physical; lust and possession are mistranslated as love. Love actually is in letting go of the people you love, to give them the freedom to live their own; it lies in sacrifice and being there for them unconditionally without expecting anything in return. In the realm of energy, the colour pink translates as love. If yo...

In a havan, we make an offering of samagri to Agni deva, which contains both exotic ingredients like guggul as well as common ingredients like rice and sugar, representing in totality the different aspects of creation. Similarly, our body contains all aspects of  creation , which belong to no specific individual. These keep on changing and exist to aid the forces that run creation. Every moment in the life of a sadhak is a havan, an ahuti made to the devas in his every  thought and action —be it eating, sexual gratification, travel, leisure or even sadhana, which has to be sacrificed after a stage. All these are aspects of the physical, temporary and unreal. The moment a sadhak associates himself with a physical aspect and tries to hold on to it, it is called a dilution in yog. On the other hand, if the sadhak makes an offering to the devas with every physical aspect, it paves way to evolution. Both devas and danavs exist within a being. The aspect that one rela...

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