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Most people will say yes to that. Desires leave us tangled in the world outside and disturbed in the world inside. The ancient sages gave us a technique to free ourselves from desires. Try it and feel the difference, says Yogi Ashwini of Dhyan Ashram. At any point in time, any one of your senses is always at work, all the time running after objects of desire. The doorways to these desires in the human body are our sense organs. Shanmukhi Mudra is the technique to shut these doors to Maya to be able to experience the real world, which lies within. Sit in Siddha Asana, keeping your back absolutely straight. Now, slowly raise your hands towards the face, keeping the elbows at shoulder level. Put the thumbs inside the ear holes, blocking any external sound. Then, close your eyes and gently press your eyelids with the index finger. Ensure that no light enters. Then, slowly press the nasal passage with tip of your middle finger. Keep the pressure soft and release the pressure o...

           Yogi ji's article in a Hindi newspaper, Milap 

If you happen to take a flight at night, and if you get a window seat - just look out of the window when you take-off, you will see thousands of tiny dots of light coming from thousands of houses that lie below and if you peep into any of those houses, you will find people not very different from one another, going through similar life experiences - each one is stressed, each one is disturbed by the same set of problems - health, finances, relationships and/or emotions. A Dhyan Foundation volunteer doing asan It is these stresses that weigh down an individual all through the life keeping him entangled in the everyday struggle and before one knows, the hair are grey, the spine is bent, the skin is shrivelled, the eyesight dim, the body is host to a plethora of diseases, and the stress...it only increases, never subsides- deteriorating the body further and faster. Psychological stress is in fact the prime factor expediting ageing in the body. Medically, the psychological stre...