DHYAN FOUNDATION

The stomach as per the vedic sources is the organ responsible deriving prana from the food and in this sense, the vedic masters identified three stomachs of a human being - the mouth, the actual stomach and the intestines. All these three stomachs are controlled and governed by the manipoorak chakra in the pranic body of a person. Maximum imbalances in the body start with congestion in the stomach and a faulty elimination of waste from the body, which ultimately manifests into disease. When you eat food, two things can happen that may lead to disease in future. First is the failure of absorption of nutrients from the intestines due to the development of a chemical coating on the walls due to eating food laced with chemicals and masalas. Second, the slow/negligible movement of the ingested food in the digestive tract due to lack of  pranic  energy in the manipoorak, once again resulting from ingestion of chemicals and dangerous masalas. Both these things lead to...

"Creation has emerged from stillness. The ultimate purpose of  yoga  is to gather that stillness because it holds Creation in it," says Yogi Ashwini, founder of the Dhyan Foundation. The yogi, who advocates yoga 'in its truest, purest form', was in  Bangalore  recently to conduct a 'dhyan' workshop. He spoke to Prithvi Manjeshwar. Excerpts from the interview... What is the significance of being in a 'still' body state while practising yoga? The stillness is the state of shunya (zero), which is neither negative nor positive. Zero comes from the Rig Veda. It is where Creation has taken place — everything is inside it yet it signifies nothing. Once you attain the state of zero, you are everywhere. What about New Age yoga? Yoga has come to us from the great rishis who documented it almost 5,000 years back. Today, everything is commercialized. Our brain functions only at 5-7% of its capacity, which is enough for us to enjoy the pleasures of the five sens...