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The Paanch Maha Prana are the etheric forces, which combine together in a human form to provide basic life force to a human body. Prana vayu is the upward rising force in the region between the diaphragm and the shoulders. Salutations are paid to this by touching the tips of the middle finger and the ring finger to the tip of the thumb. This is called prana vayu mudra. Apana vayu is the downward moving force, from the navel towards the pelvis. Salutations are paid to this by touching the tips of the ring and little finger to the tip of your thumb. This is the apana vayu mudra. Samaan vayu is the balancing force between prana vayu and apana vayu. It is the outward and sideways moving force in the region between the diaphragm and the navel. Salutations are paid to this by touching the tips of index and middle finger to the tip of your thumb. This is called the samana vayu mudra. Udana vayu rises upwards from the pit of the throat. Salutations are paid to this by t...

The purpose of your life is experiencing the desire which brought you here. We take birth because of desire and for a lifetime we remain prisoners of this desire, forgetting the purpose of our life and taking the downward spiral by entangling ourselves in the various attractions of the physical world namely, relationships, career — the web of maya.  The purpose of your life is experiencing the desire which brought you here. And desire is unending, as it starts the cycle of karma until the soul decides that the purpose is over and it needs to go back home. You have to pay back for your every karma. While it’s fine to experience and enjoy the pleasures, it is also important to remember the purpose of your life and that for every pleasure you indulge in, there comes an associated pain. That maintains the balance in this creation. We are limited with our senses and the limitations of our mind cannot comprehend either our life’s purpose or the ways to ac...

Dhyan Foundation, ICHR organize World Peace Maha Yagya World peace is the need of the hour and yagya is potent tool for the same, says Yogi Ashwini Well-known spiritual and charitable organisation, Dhyan Foundation in association with Indian Chamber of Human Resources organized World Peace Maha Yagya at Dhyan Ashram on Friday. Speaking about the purpose of the peace yagya, Yogi Ashwini, said that “when the world was inhabited by barbarians, as per modern historians, vedic rishis had mastered the concept of shanti (peace) and santulan (balance). Today, in this heyday of negativity, World Peace is the need of the hour and yagya is potent tool for the same.” Yogi Ashwini addressing the media On the occasion, a new mobile application AcharyaSethu was unveiled which is aimed at bringing vedic culture in the form of yagyas , vastu , astrology and other services to one's doorstep. “It is unfortunate the youth today have no understanding of or access to the treas...

Patanjali Yogsutras were given 4500 years ago, they do not give a description of any asana . There is only one line –  sthir sukham asanam . That is a posture in which you are still and at peace. So any posture that can be maintained for long hours without movement or discomfort is an asana .  Sage Patanjali is called as the fountainhead of yoga . The purpose of asana is cleansing the body – nadis (etheric channels) and chakras (energy centres). 4500 years ago, there was no requirement for this cleansing, the thought, actions and environment were relatively pure and conducive to the practice of yoga. Therefore, no mention of asanas in Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga. With the passage of time, the bodies and minds started becoming polluted as did the environment, therefore various forms of yoga came in and around 500 years back, Hatha Yoga was formulated by yogis like Matsyendranath and Gorakhanath which describes certain physical postures to cleanse the nadis and chak...

Our physical body is only one-fifth of us, there are four more layers to us. And it is these layers that control what happens in the physical body composed of elements. The science of yog and Sanatan Kriya taps into the power of a being in totality, touching upon all the layers. For the purpose of this article, we will discuss the layer next to the physical body, the pranmaya kosha, which is often called as the aura. This layer consists of millions of chakras and nadis which regulate and channelise the flow of prana in the body and in turn are responsible of proper functioning of various organs of the body. In the previous article, we started to discuss the problem of kidney stones. In the realm of energy or prana, kidneys are controlled by the swadishthan and mool chakra. Detailed below are certain asanas which work to rectify imbalances in the two chakras and are helpful in eliminating kidney stones. It is recommended that you visit your neare...

The article was published in  Tamil Spiritual Magazine , Aanmegamalar.

यह लेख  देशप्यार में प्रकाशित हुआ था।

The article was published in Aanmegamalar magazine.

यह लेख  देशप्यार में प्रकाशित हुआ था ।

योगी अश्विनी   अष्टाँग योग के पाँच नियमों में से एक नियम है ‘तप’ जिसका अर्थ है अपने शरीर को किसी भी रूप में कष्ट देकर तपाना। तप, एक शुद्धिकरण की प्रक्रिया है, जो कि नकारात्मक कर्मों को निष्फल करने में और आत्मिक उत्थान में सहायक होती है। उपवास भी स्वयं को तपाने का एक माध्यम है। यही कारण है कि शरीर और आत्मा की शुद्धि के लिए, नवरात्रों में उपवास किए जाते हैं। देवी माँ के दस ‘शक्ति’- रूप- शैलपुत्री, ब्रह्मचारिणी, चंद्रकान्ता, कुशमंदा, स्कंदमाता, कात्यायनी, कालरात्रि, महागौरी, सिद्धिदात्री तथा अपराजिता, इन नौ रातों और दस दिनों में समाये हुए हैं। इस प्रकार, नवरात्रों में, प्रत्येक रात की एक विशेष शक्ति है और उस शक्ति का एक विशेष उद्देश्य। इस अवधि के दौरान मौसम परिवर्तन होता है, अर्थात सृष्टि की विभिन्न शक्तियाँ एक असंतुलन से संतुलन की ओर बढ़ती हैं। चूँकि, हम इस सृष्टि के पूर्ण अंश हैं, तो इस समय में हमारी प्राण शक्ति भी सृष्टि की अन्य शक्तियों की तरह एक संतुलन, एक पुनः निर्माण की प्रक्रिया से होकर गुजरती है। इस समय शरीर को अल्प और सुपाच्य आहार के माध्यम से हल्का रखा जाता है तथा ...

Shiv is the doer and may 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 this vehicle to perform action. Shakti is the force of the physical world. Shivratri is the night of merger of Shiv and Shakti making a complete whole. Shiv and Shakti pertain to manifest creation and arise from the unmanifest. The journey back to the unmanifest can be carved only through their complete merger which is the ultimate purpose of yoga and Sanatan Kriya . A practical example of merger of Shiv and Shakti is the institution of marriage where the merger of male and female leads to manifestation of a new life. If there is a mismatch in this merger of male and female, or Shiv and Shakti, the marriage remains incomplete. This imbalance is evident in the progeny who will exhibit anti-social and undesirable behaviour and traits. The rishis of yesteryear explained how incompleteness sets into the child in t...

The article was published in Deccan Chronicle 

पिछले सप्ताह हमने एक सरल श्वास प्रक्रिया की चर्चा की थी जिससे शरीर के चयापचय को अनुकूल किया जा सकता है तथा शरीर की कोशिकाओं के जीवन काल में वृद्धि कर, अपने शरीर के वृद्ध होने की प्रक्रिया को धीमा किया जा सकता हैं। । योग की प्रारंभिक क्रियाओ का यह पहला तत्कालीन लाभ है । आशा है कि पाठकों ने पिछले लेख में वर्णित उदर-श्वास-क्रिया का अभ्यास किया होगा। योग आपके लिए तभी सार्थक है जब आप उसका नियमित रूप से अभ्यास करें क्योंकि योग अनुभव का विषय है, आपका निजी अनुभव । अब हम उदर-श्वास-क्रिया में एक छोटा-सा परिवर्तन करेंगे, १. अपनी रीढ़ की हड्डी को सीधा कर के बैठें। आँखें बंद कर सारा ध्यान नाभि पर रखते हुए उदर श्वास की क्रिया करते रहें। अपने श्वास को धीमा, गहरा और लम्बा करें । २. एक लंबी सांस लें और साँस बाहर छोड़ते समय अपना मुँह खोल राहत की एक सांस छोड़े। यदि आप इस प्रश्वास को जागरूकता के साथ करते है, तो अापको एहसास होगा कि हवाएक हल्की फुफकार के साथ आपके गले के अंदरूनी हिस्सों को छूकर बाहर जाती है । ३. अब यही प्रक्रिया अपने मुंह को बंद करके दोहराएं । प्रत्यक्ष रूप से नासिका छिद्र...

संपूर्ण भगवद गीता कर्म सिद्धांत पर आधारित है। यह हमेशा कहा जाता है कि, "हम जैसा बोते हैं, बिलकुल वैसा ही फल पाते हैं"। जब हम जमीन में बीज बोते हैं तो उस बीज का अंकुरण एवं उससे पैदा होने वाले पौधे की गुणवत्ता उस जमीन के उपजाऊपन पर निर्भर करती है। उसी तरह हमारा हर कर्म फिर चाहे वह कितना ही तुच्छ क्यों न हो, उसमें अंकुरण होने की क्षमता होती है और हम पर उससे होने वाले प्रभाव वह कर्म कैसे एवं कहां किया गया है, इस पर निर्भर करता है। हर कर्म का फल उस कर्म की क्षमता और सूक्ष्मता पर निर्भर करता है और उस घटना एवं इंसान जिसके लिए या जिसके विरुद्ध वह कर्म किया गया हो उनकी क्षमता और सूक्ष्मता पर निर्भर करता है। कर्म की सूक्ष्मता जितनी ज्यादा होती है, उतनी तीव्रता से उस कर्म का फल कर्ता को प्राप्त होता है। उदाहरण के तौर पर यह सलाह हमेशा दी जाती है कि हमें किसी भी आध्यात्मिक रूप से प्रगत व्यक्ति के प्रति विचार, वाणी या आचार में नकारात्मकता नहीं रखनी चाहिए। यह इसलिए नहीं कहा जाता चूंकि ऐसे व्यक्ति अत्यंत अहंकारी होते हैं अपितु इसलिए कहा जाता है क्योंकि आध्यात्मिक रूप से प्रगत व्यक्...

As per Section 62 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, Indian States can send a list of wild animals to the Centre with a request to declare them vermin and enable their killing. The Central Government has the power to, by notification, declare any wild animal vermin, other than those specified in Schedule I and part 11 of Schedule H of the law, for any area for a given period of time. Till the notification is in force, these animals will be deprived of any kind of protection whatsoever under that law. Vermin are wild animals which are harmful to crops or people. A notification was issued on March 14, 2016 by the Central government, declaring monkeys vermin in Shimla for a period of six months and vide another notification in May this year, to treat monkeys as vermin for a period of one year in 38 tehsils of the State.The Himachal Pradesh government has sterilised one lakh monkeys till date out of the two lakhs plus reported monkeys in the State. The government has stated that t...

Diseases manifest in the body because of an imbalance…and imbalances occur due to disturbance in the equilibrium of the Tridoshas. In Ayurveda, tridoshas, also known as the stambhas (pillars) of life, are like a tripod on which the body stands. The state of balance in a body varies from individual to individual depending on the prakriti or constitution of that person, which is defined by the ruling doshas in an individual’s body. Vat which is the most dominant and important constitutes the very life of a being, for it is responsible for all activities of the body. Pitt helps in digestion and metabolism and kaph is the promoter of strength in the form of ojas. Acidity is a condition of excess acid secretion that causes irritation and burning of the mucosal lining of the stomach. As per Ayurveda this condition occurs due to an imbalance of the pitta dosha. This condition is a result of derangement of one of the sub-types of pitta dosha, Pachak. Pachak contributes to the digesti...

The pleasures and the miseries of life are the experiences of the soul - through the body. Ayurveda defines body as something that is constantly going through the process of decay – ‘shiryateiti shariram’. Here, decay indicates the gradual ageing of the body. This process is intensified by the onslaught of diseases, and a disease can enter the body only if there is an imbalance (vikriti). Diseases may be categorised as mental and physical. Factors that affect the mind are rajas and tamas, which are of psychological importance. These are the pathogenic factors of the mind and can only be reconciled by the practices of Yog and Sanatan Kriya under the guidance of a Guru. These have been explained in detail in my book, ‘Sanatan Kriya Ageless Dimension’. In the physical, as per Ayurveda, an imbalance relates to the imbalance of the three doshas of Vat (vayu), Pitta (agni), Kapha (s leshma). These three are the pillars of the body. The maximum number of diseases, about eighty, ...