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Yogi Ashwini 's article in New Indian Express ... http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/spirituality/The-Divine-Heat/2014/09/13/article2428111.ece The Vedic texts describe manthan, the churning of the celestial ocean by the devs and asurs to obtain the divine nectar or amrit. As a result of the churning, various gems and siddhis came out of the ocean, also came out the venom, ‘halalal’, before obtaining the amrit. It would have doomed all creation. Terrified, the devs and asurs invoked the energy of Adi Guru Shiv. Lord Shiv drank the poison and held it in his throat, distributing siddhis and vibhutis to all. It also describes the awakening of the kundalini shakti in the pranamaya kosha of the human body, through practice of yog and Sanatan Kriya, under the sanidhya of a Guru, who is the reflection of Adi Guru Shiv, in the physical form. The sushumna becomes the churning rod, the twin nadis of ida and pingala represent the opposing forces of cold and heat, moon and sun tha...

Yogi Ashwini clears a few misconceptions about the purpose of the kundalini.   Artistic depictions of chakras and tantric triangles are often based on wild imagination, rather than fact. When you ask some of the artists for more details, they often hit a wall. But you ask someone who meditates on them regularly, you get a better response. Yogi Ashwini of the Dhyan Foundation clarified, “The triangles in the images depict energies. The downward triangle represents Shakti. The upward one represents Shiva. They can be of different colours in different places. The guru of a tantric practitioner will give each student different images to meditate on, like the Shri Yantra, because everyone is different. So their requirements are different. And these triangles are not imagined ones. They really do exist, and can be visible through meditation. They correspond to the different chakras, (dynamos in the etheric body).” He added, “The journey towards consciou...

Nature has its way of preserving balance in Creation. For every aspect, there exists an equal and opposite one. Darkness is nothing but the absence of light. Silence is nothing but the absence of sound. It is only the duality in nature, the coexistence of positive and negative that gives meaning to the existence of the whole. What if at any given time, there exists simultaneously the entire positive and negative? Then the two will balance each other out completely, the net result being shunya or zero. So, there would be everything yet nothing. The only form that could fit such a description is the formless—Nirakaar, Para Brahma. This is the swaroop of Lord Shiv. In the words of Adi Shankaracharya, ‘Na Punyam Na Paapam Na Saukhyam Na Dukham, Chidananda Rupa Shivoham Shivoham.’ What then is the dancing male form, the form of half-man and half-woman, or the sadhu clad in a loincloth with his body smeared in bhasma? Are Natraj, Ardhnareshwar and Neelkanth myths? Let us dwell up...

The physical body reflects the power of the ether and its practices The Vedic rishis were the masters of the physical and the spiritual; super beings who controlled prakriti (Nature) and all its manifestations. Time and again, modern science and the best of western minds have turned to Vedic culture to find solutions to complex problems. Enough research has highlighted the scientific basis and precision of Vedic concepts. The physical body, comprising the five mahabhutas (elements), had been completely mastered by the Vedic rishis. The rishis of yesteryears could maintain their physical youth and glow till the very end and then leave the body in a state of full consciousness and awareness. It is very possible to achieve the same in this day and age, provided one develops an in-depth understanding of Vedic concepts and applies them in the right manner to master the physical body. Let us begin to understand what was it that endowed the Vedic masters with their phenomenal glow ...

PEARLS BEFORE SWINES YOGI ASHWINI The saying ‘Don’t waste pearls before swines’ traces its origin back to the time when Gyan of Geeta was rendered by Shri Krishna. It has a deep meaning attached to it. How can we ignore the immense knowledge or rightly the Gyan that the people of that era had.

Yoga is a practice, which requires a very strict discipline and a Guru, and, if either is missing there can be no Yoga. It is said that the knowledge or the Gyan should not be wasted in front of the people who don’t value it. That is to say that Gyan should not be imparted in front of the people who come to listen to the discourse not with the aim of imbibing some Gyan but with the sole purpose of defying it or arguing on it or showing disrespect to it. These people are not searching, they are only looking to prove to the world how great they are and much they know, these are people who are ruled by their ego’s.

 A lot of energy is lost in initiating a person on the path of Sadhna by way of...