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The universe has destructive forces as well as constructive ones. In the microcosm of an individual’s life, the forces that his/her actions are dominated decide whether he/she would rise or fall. An understanding of the Vedas can lead one to choose the right path, writes Yogi Ashwini. Creation is not linear; it is cyclical in nature. There is childbirth, death, and then rebirth. The Sun rises and sets only to rise again. A seed gives rise to a tree, and then that tree produces more seeds for more trees to grow. The Moon follows a cycle, and so does water. This cyclical pattern is seen in human evolution too. Lighter thoughts, which are aimed at the creation and lead to selfless action, make one rise. But heavier thoughts that come with an asuric disposition force one onto the descending path. The extent to which one rises or falls depends on the influence of asurs and devas in his/her life. While asuric shaktis pave the way for the disruption of various aspects of creat...

The British punctured our roots, killed cows and poisoned our minds, and left behind generations of ‘brown Englishmen’, writes  Yogi Ashwini Macaulay in his infamous ‘Minute’ in 1835 changed the course of how Bharat (or India as we call it now) would be perceived by its countrymen. He planned to uproot the Indian culture through English education. He advocated education for a selected class and wanted to create eminent clerks to serve the lower cadres in British administration, “Brown Englishmen”. The fact that most of us find it perfectly normal to address him, who ravaged our culture, as “Lord” Macaulay and find the idea of cow, which nourishes us, being our mother or goddess absurd, is a direct indicator of the fact that Macaulay succeeded in brainwashing us. A brainwash to the extent that no matter what we write here or whatever stats we share, the Brown Englishmen, even if they make it through the end of this article, would still not find anything wrong in killing co...

A diseased body is nothing but a result of an imbalance. This imbalance can be corrected by Spiritual Healing while ensuring that the root cause of the disease is removed without any damage to the physical body. Unlike most modern medical sciences, that tend to suppress the disease or kill the diseased cell, which is the symptom, Spiritual Healing transforms the cause of the disease. Spiritual Healing finds mention in one of the 4 Vedas called the Atharvaveda given by Rishi Angiras under the section of Yatu Vidya where it has been explained in detail. Yatu stands for now and Spiritual Healing also happens with no time lag. It effectuates the healing from the dimension of colour. There are different colours with millions of shades in this Creation. Each shade is associated with specific attributes. Some are pleasant, soothing, some represent love, some Divinity, some stand for power, some for anger, and some are dull and depressing. All are different and have different e...

"Without getting into the specifics of each text, some general terms to describe sexual behaviour of an individual included puns prakriti (male), stri prakriti (female), tritiya prakriti (has both male and female qualities), napumsa (deficient in manhood), nastriya (deficient in womanhood), kliba (impotent with women by nature), panda (impotent with women for various reasons), shandha (he who has qualities and behaviour of a woman), svairini (she who engages in sex with women), stripumsa (she who has qualities and behaviour of a man). The deviations from male and female characteristics were attributed to inadequacies of the parental sperm or ova, cohabitation process or the thoughts of the parents. Vedas never termed homosexuality as a crime. It is the loss of vedic culture which is being exploited. Vedas perceived all beings as equal and the laws of nature are applicable to all." " Homosexuality and the  #Vedas  " by  Yogi Ashwini in  Deccan Chronicle ...

'Human Desires and Four Vedas'  #MetroIndia   Yogi Ashwini

JANMASTHMI ARTICLE BY YOGI ASHWINI IN HINDI MILAP PAPER 14 AUG 2014 http://www.webmilap.com/Gallery.aspx?id=14_08_2014_013_012_002&type=P&artUrl=14082014013012&eid=31877

The creation is a complete whole, the sum total of positive and negative, black and white, darkness and light, sound and silence. What is light without darkness? What is sound without silence? It is the existence of opposites that gives meaning to the whole. Having unveiled the deepest secrets of creation, the vedic seer gave the world the concept of purna or a complete whole, more popularly known as shunya and taken to mean ‘nothing’. This shunya forms the basis of modern arithmetic, geometry and the number system. It is well known that the number system we now know as ‘Arabic numerals’ in fact travelled from this side of Indus to the Arab world from where the Europeans learnt it and exported it back to us.  Pythagoras travelled from Samos to the banks of Ganges to learn Geometry; the universally accepted and applied Pythagoras theorem made its first appearance in the Sulbasutras, some 1,000 years before Pythagoras. What is it that made the vedic gyaan cradle of all modern sc...

When you see a great work of art, you marvel at its beauty. When you hear a beautiful piece of music, you want to listen to it again and again. When you read an interesting book, it stimulates your mental faculties. But these are the creations of that artist, that composer and that author. Isn’t it ironical that we engage day in and day out in taking pleasure in things that are someone else’s thought and creation, someone who, at times, we do not even know? How many of us care to access the source which triggered that thought process in that person to create something that we all admire? In the last 20 years of teaching yog, I have met many spiritual aspirants, the most learned and well read. I have attended countless spiritual meets where the discussions and concepts usually stem from the intellectual understanding of great works by masters. Adi Shankarcharya, based on his revelations, gave us the Saundarya Lahiri. Patanjali gave the yogsutras . Krishna summarised his gyan in the...

A yogi who doesn't believe in religion is usually hard to come by. But  Delhi-based yogi  Ashwini proudly states "I'm an atheist. I don't believe in religion despite being a yogi." Claiming that "there is no such thing as religion", he adds, "Yoga is a science." Yogi Ashwini was recently in Saligao with his disciple Chandni Jain, to promote her book 'Doomsday Y' . Jain said she accidentally landed at the yogi's ashram. There she "was introduced to some practices of sanatan kriya and realized the science behind it." She said she "used to make fun of it earlier and thought it was boring". "But it has been a process of learning and I have experienced it myself," she said. Explaining how the yogi suggested that she write the book, Jain said, "I was skeptical but he said if you have changed, others can also change." "How many of us actually know our culture?" Ashwini interje...

Vedic civilisation and culture—the oldest of all civilisations—has proved its supremacy over all other existing cultures by virtue of its concepts and superior thought process. When the whole world was living in jungles and leading a nomadic life of hunting and gathering, people living in this part of the planet had developed a highly evolved culture. Their thought process was so unique that it encompassed within it, entire creation; there was no aspect of the physical as well as the spiritual world that was left unattended and un-detailed. Till date, the human mind has not been able to comprehend most of the philosophies and concepts given by the Vedic seers. In this article, I invite the reader to delve into a few of these concepts and understand how deep and how superior their thought process was. Let’s start with the idea of God. God, for the Vedic seer, was an energy which is very light and subtle. Light and subtle, in this context, does not mean that it has no weight; ...

By YOGI ASHWINI The universe is constantly expanding; modern scientists validate this fact. In the beginning, you were a part of that param shakti. But as time moves on, as a result of this expansion, you are drifting away from it. With every passing moment, you are moving away from the place you came from. You are constantly going away from your core, your truth. This is evident if you take a look at the youth of today?weak eyesight, frail bodies, disease, lack of direction, addiction to machines and an artificial life. Just two or three generations ago, people had much stronger bodies. They did not take too many pills. Today, we have developed health supplements, we claim that quality of food has improved, various equipment and machines have been developed to keep one healthy, yet good health eludes us. Before the British conquest of India, there existed a local cure for smallpox in India. Imperialists who wanted to promote their vaccinations suppressed the use of this loc...

कितने आश्चर्य की बात है कि आज के युवक-युवतियां कम उम्र में बालों के पकने का शिकार हो रहे हैं। अपनी त्वचा और बालों को चमक प्रदान करने के लिए कृत्रिम रसायनों से लैस सौंदर्य प्रसाधनों का सहारा ले रहे हैं। जबकि हमारे ऋषियों का न केवल शरीर सुडौल होता था अपितु अंतिम समय तक उनकी त्वचा आभा से भरपूर रहती थी। शरीर स्वस्थ रहता था। वे कभी वृद्ध होते ही नहीं थे। आखिर वे ऐसा क्या करते थे, जो बिल्कुल अलग था? क्या उन्हें सदैव यौवन बनाए रखने का कोई जादुई नुस्खा मिल गया था? सच तो यह था कि उन्होंने प्रकृति को चलाने वाले नियमों को समझ लिया था। यह हमारा सौभाग्य है कि वृद्धावस्था को रोकने वाले उनके ज्ञान का संग्रह सनातन क्रिया जैसी योग तकनीकों के रूप में हमें विरासत में मिला है। सनातन क्रिया का अभ्यास व्यक्ति को प्रकृति के साथ एक कर देता है।  सनातन क्रिया में 'सूर्य साधना' नामक एक सरल सी क्रिया का वर्णन है और ऐसा कहा जाता है कि जो 'सूर्य साधना' करता है वह सूर्य की भांति ही आभा युक्त हो जाता है। इस क्रिया में सूर्य के साथ सूक्ष्म रूप से संपर्क स्थापित किया जाता है लेकिन ऐसा करते समय सूर्य ...

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...

Agni, fire, is the first word of the Rig Veda. According to ayurveda, the various agnis in the body are at constant work, burning body fuel and along with it the body’s resources. For example, in the process of converting food into energy, the internal chemical processes affect the body’s internal organs. The heavier the food, the more the resources required to burn it and convert it into energy, and the more the body ages. In a similar way, fast breathing, sexual acts, anger, attachment, greed, violence, sorrow and various kinds of indulgences lead to intense processing of thoughts, which utilise the body’s resources and engage the various agnis resulting in ageing. So, is there a way to make these agnis shaant, to calm these “fires”, slowing down ageing, regaining balance and  tuning oneself to the subtler frequencies? The answer lies in performing Vedic havans, which are done on a large scale at Dhyan Ashram. Fire is an element that can never be polluted. In fact, ...

YOGI ASHWINI The entire creation is nothing but a manifestation of energy. Every object of creation, all lokas (dimensions of existence) and yugas (dimensions of time) exist in energy forms. Interestingly, life exists only on planet earth, and various dimensions, which exist as a part of the etheric world, can be experienced and accessed only from here. Our culture talks about the existence of thousands of gods and goddesses, so if the supreme god is one and formless, one does tend to ask what these forms called gods actually are. All the objects in the universe — sun, moon, planets, stars — are divine energies going through a process of transformation. All these bodies may seem like objects to us, but they are doing their karmas. Though Param Brahma is the actual source of energy, every aspect of the physical creation is looked after by an energy specifically programmed to control it. This explains the existence of demigods or different forms of god. The movements of the earth change ...

By Yogi Ashwini I am often asked why one cannot read all the Vedas and other books available and evolve? Why does one need a Guru? People often say, “I cannot bow before another man”. Such questions and thoughts, asked so very frequently, made me write about the Guru in great detail. To grasp what is a Guru imagine that the sadhak is a piece of very hot stone and that ultimate knowledge is like ice. If this ice melts and falls straight on the sadhak, the body of the sadhak would crack with the force and sudden change in temperature. The Guru is the force that holds this ice cold water and very gently pours it on the sadhak’ s body — very gently the sadhak begins to cool and ultimately becomes as cold as the ice, now he is also a Guru. Sir John Woodroffe, a famous tantrik from the West, impressed me greatly with his works, especially the ones in which he has explained, with quotes from various authorities, the Guru. The following paragraphs echo some of his views and are dedicat...