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Sanatan Kriya , as formulated by  Yogi Ashwini , encapsulates in its entirety, all the eight limbs of  Ashtang Yoga  as prescribed by the  Patanjali Yoga Sutras  about 5000 years ago. The eight limbs of Ashtang Yoga are -  Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayam, Pratyahar, Dhyan, Dharna, Samadhi.  By following the practice of the five  Yamas  and five  Niyams , the path of Yoga becomes clear. The impediments in the progress of the practitioner or  sadhak  get removed leading the  sadhak  to the next stage, which involves the purification of the physical and the etherical self of the individual. Asana  is a posture, which is attained with the objective of gaining mastery of the physical body. The practitioner or more appropriately the  sadhak  practices the posture with complete awareness of the physical and internalization of senses till the posture becomes effortless or in other words till the physical...

Go back by 20 years and the video games available were Mario, bricks et al. Later, the games were upgraded and they became more interactive. Then there came games like Prince of Persia where human involvement increased; though both Mario and Prince of Persia were played using the same four buttons. Mario had only 8-10 stages; there were far more exciting levels. Next came motion sensors; today we have 3D games. You get into the game and feel that you are in real life. There may come a time when you will be able to put your consciousness into the character and be able to live in a virtual environment where you will feel pleasure-pain, death and birth. The knob and buttons being your five senses. In Mario, the player would collect gold coins; in this virtual game too, you will be busy collecting gold coins—better looks, bigger house, fancier car or a prettier girlfriend. You forget how many hours have passed. Then suddenly, the power goes off. You cannot retrieve the coins collecte...

Successful people usually possess a certain glow and magnetism that sets them apart from the crowd; every cell in their body radiates a specific frequency of energy. An evolved person exhibits a higher spectrum of invisible colours which are visible to a yogic practitioner—this is called the aura. A normal being just feels attracted and wants to be with such a person without knowing why. To a clairvoyant, it is evident as a specific shade to the aura, and its magnetism depends on the person. This is called the Brahma Tej. One possessing this can attain anything that he desires; but it is up to him whether he uses it to accomplish physical feats or to break away and go beyond into the higher dimensions. The reason why certain people have this glow while the others don’t is because the former have accumulated a lot of karmic strength over previous births through austere practices and following principles of Ashtang Yog. This manifests as sukra (luminous clearness) in the body, wh...

There are people who, even after years of interacting with me and getting their experiences, ask me if I could teach them a new practice, a new mantra, a little more gyan or about Ashtang Yog. I wonder, what more can I teach them? Rather, what is there to teach? You are at point A, you have to go to point B, and the path from A to B was clearly laid down by Rishi Patanjali thousands of years ago. All that is needed is for you to walk that path… yama, niyama, asan, pranayam, pratyahaar, dharna, dhyan, samadhi… and you will our destination. Yoga does not call for standing on your head or breathing abnormally; neither does it involve complicated diets and rituals—it is simply integrating the principles of Ashtang Yog in your everyday life. Let us look at just the five yamas and niyamas: satya—to always speak the truth; asteya—not to steal; aparigraha—not to collect; ahimsa—non-violence; brahmacharya—celibacy; swacchh—cleanliness and personal hygiene; santosh—satisfaction with what you...

Yog is to be one with nature. In this sense, anything that follows the code of nature is in yog. Suppose we observe the things around us, say a tree. Green leaves, branches spreading far and wide, fruits and flowers, a tall thick trunk and roots that run deep into the ground that's what we would expect to see. Now, if one were to imagine a tree devoid of these attributes, would it still be called a tree? Why doesn't a tree (even in our imagination) exist without these attributes? This is because each of these individual traits is indispensable for the tree to perform its dharma. A tree withstands the vagaries of nature - storms, downpours• and floods- to protect the flora, fauna and soil. A tree provides for those around it - animals, birds and insects with food and shelter, as nurturer and healer. A tree purifies the air around it, binds the soil together, participates in causing rain, a tree decomposes to enrich the earth and it befriends the environment. The tree...

The simplest definition of charity is when you do something for someone without expecting anything in return for it. If someone asks, it obviously means he needs it and your duty is to redistribute what God has given to you. For a Sadhak the path is to evolve, to reach a higher state of being and to reach a higher state of being. Charity is one of the 5 Yama defined in the 8 fold path of Yoga which a Sadhak has to practice for evolution. Let us take up the example of a person who goes in a function and has donated a lot of money. He goes up on a stage and announces his contribution in front of the audience.Would you call this charity? No, this is a business. The gentleman has used his money to buy appreciation and praise for himself. He has exchanged his money for some name and satisfaction of his ego.Charity should be like—the left hand should not know what the right hand is doing because it is not the right hands business to know. One should give irrespective of what use i...