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YOGI ASHWINI Whenever we are angry, we feel a certain unstoppable rush within us. This rush, in yogic terms, is called an ‘imbalance’ in the body. To be able to manage anger, we need to balance our chakras system. Clairvoyantly, chakras are seen as whirling centres of energy which function like exhaust fans taking in fresh prana and throwing out used prana. There are seven major chakras in our body. ‘Mooladhar’, at the base of the spine; ‘Swadhishthan’, two inches above the Mooladhar; ‘Manipoorak’, at the navel; ‘Anahat’, at the centre of the chest cavity; ‘Vishuddhi’, at the Adam’s apple area of the throat; ‘Ajna’, the master chakra, at the point between the eyebrows; ‘Sahastrar’, above the head. Whenever you experience anger, it is the result of inadequate or excessive prana at any chakra. To control it, practice a simple kriya called ‘Chakra Santulan Pranayam’. It aids in redistribution of prana from one area of the body to another such that the body gets back into balan...

Everything in creation is a unique frequency of prana (the universal force which translates in different frequencies to form all objects). The difference between a plant, an animal or a human — or even two humans — is due to the difference in the frequency of the pranic force vibrating in them. This is  why we enjoy the company of certain people and feel uncomfortable in the presence of some others. We relate to what exists within our pranic frequency and are unable to gel with those which are higher or lower.   Consciousness is the ability to manifest an individual’s pranic force as per his capacity. It unites with prana to shape all things existing in the universe. Consciousness makes you what you are in the physical world. Prana gives you your unique physical state, consciousness channelises your thoughts to take shape. Every thought is a potential manifestation. The level of consciousness of the person who is thinking is directly proportional to the ability of manif...

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 ...

आमतौर पर आसन का नाम आते ही मन में एक छवि उभरती है कि जैसे कोई तेज-तेज श्वास ले रहा होगा या फिर कोई बंदरों की तरह उछल-कूद कर रहा होगा। भौतिकी के नियम के अनुसार प्रत्येक क्रिया की प्रतिक्रिया भी होती है। इसी तरह से तेज-तेज श्वास लेने से शरीर में अधिक उर्जा उत्पन्न होती है इस कारण से कुछ जहरीले और हानिकारक तत्व भी शरीर में ज्यादा मात्रा में पैदा होने लगते हैं। और यही तत्व आगे चलकर वृद्धावस्था का कारण बनते हैं। आयुर्वेद में अग्नि का उल्लेख किया गया है। यह अग्नि केवल पचाने में ही नहीं बल्कि शरीर की असंख्य जीवन प्रणालियों को चलाने में भी सहायता करती है। वास्तव में किसी भी कोशिका/सेल का आधार उसका केंद्र नहीं बल्कि अग्नि है। अग्नि से शरीर में उर्जा की खपत होती है और जितनी जल्दी ऊर्जा की खपत होगी उतनी ही तेजी से शरीर में हानिकारक तत्व पैदा होंगे। इससे नुकसान होगा और व्यक्ति की युवावस्था को भी इससे नुकसान पहुंचेगा। जो व्यक्ति अत्यंत ही गंभीर होते हैं और हमेशा कुछ न कुछ सोचते रहते हैं, उनकी उम्र अक्सर कम होती है। इसका कारण यह है कि प्रत्येक कोशिका में यह प्राण सीमित मात्रा में होता है और ज्यादा ...

Prana is a frequency of energy at which each individual vibrates. Prana is needed for one’s survival and to perform various day-to-day functions, it is obtained from our environment and everything we come in contact with, like the food we eat, the air we breathe, where we walk (foot contact), what we touch, what we wear, what we look at, and even of whom we think. The body of a being lives due to its ability to hold and utilise the same. It actually manifests in a being as the various essentials (dhatu), viz. asthi (bones), maas (flesh), meda (fat), rakta (blood), majja (marrow), rasa (lymph) and sukra (semen). These are the seven vitals that form a human body. Our soul lives in the body till the time the pranic frequency it is tuned to exists in the body. The day that pranic frequency leaves, the soul also leaves the body. All our actions, moods, aspirations, likes and dislikes, abilities, tastes, energy levels, success and failures, diseases and health are manifest...

Yogi Ashwini Modern science believes oxygen is life and is an indispensable energy. Our Rishis have proved that it is not the breath but prana that is responsible for life in the body. Our health and vitality, emotional and financial states, joys and maladies, diseases and glowing health are all dependent on the frequency of prana that vibrates in and around us. The complete system of our pranic body of the chakras, nadis and koshas is dependent on the prana that we are receiving from the environment around us. Pranayama is a salutation to this prana. It is said by the great rishis that the human body can survive without food for months, without water for weeks, without air for hours, but not even for a nanosecond without the vital prana. But to be able to retain the prana, the nadis and chakra in the pranamaya kosha should be clean and pure without blockages and the prana should move freely. Only then can the vital prana be held. Disease manifests in the human body as...

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...

इसी शरीर में उम्र पर जीत - योगी अश्विनी हजारों साल पहले ऋषि, साधु संत और योगी लंबी उम्र तक युवा रहते थे। शरीर बूढ़ा हो जाता तोे कायाकल्प जैसे प्रयोग करते और शरीर को फिर युवा बना लेते थे। यह कैसे संभव था? जानने के लिए लिए योगी अश्विनी ने लंबे प्रयोग किए। उनसे हुई बातचीत के अंश- ०अब तो विज्ञान ने काफी तरक्की कर ली हैं। असाध्य लगने वाली बीमारियों के इलाज भी आसान हो गए हैं। फिर भी रोग क्यों बढ़ रहे हैं? -हम प्रकृति के खिलाफ जा रहे हैं। इसी वजह से रोग और बुढापे की समस्या विराट हो रही है। हम तेजी से बूढ़े हो रहे हैं। हरित क्रांति और औद्योगिक क्रांति से प्रदूषण बढ़ा है और कई तरह की बीमारियां पैदा हुई हैं। ०योग इन दिनों फैशन में हैं। शरीर को स्वस्थ रखने में वह कितना कामयाब है? -आज योग का जो रूप दिखता है , वह आध्यात्मिक कम व्यायाम ज्यादा है। जिस तरह इसका प्रचार हो रहा है, उसे तमाशा ही कह सकते हैं। योग गंभीर विषय है। 0 होड़ और भागम भाग भरी आज की जिंदगी में लोग तनावग्रस्त हैं। योग से इसे किस हद तक मदद मिलती है? -योग के अभ्यास के साथ सोचने समझने का तरीका भी बदलना होगा। अष्टांग योग में ध...

YOGI ASHWINI. Yoga is a subject of energy or prana, which manifests in various permutations and combinations to form every aspect of creation. Prana is ‘the force’ in the universe and permeates all; it’s also the life force in a human body. When Swami Nada Brahmananda smeared his body with wax and sustained himself in glass enclosure without air, food and water, it was proved that it is not oxygen on which the body thrives. There exists a force beyond. The exchange of prana takes place through four major sources — food, breath, touch and sight. While the first two have been explored at length by modern science, Vedic rishis were not unaware of the importance of the others. Every time you touch someone or something there occurs an exchange of prana, altering an individual’s composition. Similarly, sight is a major source of prana exchange. In fact, ninety five per cent of the prana you receive flows out from the eyes; hence the importance of drishti of guru. Many thousand years ago Vedi...

YOGI ASHWINI. Isn’t it amazing to see that even teenagers today are suffering from premature graying and resorting to lacing their bodies with chemical-based cosmetics in a bid to make their face glow and hair shine? On the other hand, our rishis of yore not only had a great physique but also had glowing complexions, shiny mane and a healthy body till the very end; they did not age. What was it that they did, that was so different? Had they found the fountain of youth? In truth they simply understood the principles that govern the creation. The good news is that they have left this reservoir of gyan on anti-ageing in the form of yogic techniques like the Sanatan Kriya, the practice of which brings a being in harmony with nature. To understand the process of ageing, we must start from the cell. The body (during its inception) for the first half-an-hour is just one cell; so actually all of us in those 30 minutes are just one cell and then that one cell multiplies forming the whole body. ...

Yogi Ashwini’s latest book, Sanatan Kriya, The Ageless Dimension, explains the process of ageing in the human body and critically examines this process. The book provides remedies for arresting the ageing process and maintaining that youthful look till your last breath. It gives techniques to prolong life, and gives recipes for a diet to combat the process of ageing. Certain rare rasayans (chemicals) for rejuvenating the body and maintaining its youth are also discussed. Techniques and kriyas for promoting longevity and youthful looks from Shiv Samhita, Gherand Samhita, Charak Samhita, Hatha Yoga Pradipika and other ancient, near-extinct texts, are also there. The book explains in detail the complex process of ageing in all the layers of the body, and provides remedies and solutions to combat this. Yogi Ashwini firmly believes that if the rishis of yesteryears could go on for so long, and maintain their youth and glow till the end to leave the body in full consciousness and awa...

YOGI ASHWINI Soul is a unique pranic frequency. In unmanifested form it exists as part of Para Brahma just as salt exists in ocean. Only when it desires a certain experience or a set of experiences does it choose to go through the cycle of karmas, birth and death. The basic reason or the root cause of the soul separating from the source is ego that recognises one’s existence as an individual. The ancients called it “asmita”, or “I”. This was the first step we took when we separated ourselves from the Divine Consciousness, which is Sukshma-iti-Sukshma, subtlest of the subtle, the unmanifested. Ego led the soul to realise that it is an individual and so came into existence the jeevatma. The individual consciousness combined with chitta forms jeevatma. Chitta or chetna is all pervading and resides in each one of us as buddhi. Buddhi is unlimited mind. It has the potential to become once again unlimited from the limited but it remains shadowed by manas the sheath, which blurs its vi...

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 ...

Yogi Ashwini, in his book Sanatan Kriya, The Ageless Dimension, talks about how to stay young the natural way. ndian culture is nearly a million year old and it has much following in the western world, but sadly, our own youth is increasingly becoming disconnected with it. To turn the wheel around, Yogi Ashwini stresses that it’s time we reached out to our roots. “Try doing that and see the phenomenal effects,” he says. In Chandigarh for the book launch of Sanatan Kriya, The Ageless Dimension, Yogi Ashwini says, “When one looks around, it’s the mechanical, superficial life that hits one in the face. For youthful looks, people are undergoing laser as well as silicon implants that do the body more harm than good.” Yogi’s book brings the wisdom of the Vedas and the latest from the medical world together. Divided in 16 chapters, this book deals with the harmful effects of the present lifestyle and on how to tackle that. “The book has kriyas, one of them called Kaya Kalp Kriya, t...

YOGI ASHWINI Everything in creation is a unique frequency of prana. Consciousness unites with prana to give shape to all things existing in the universe. While prana gives one his/her unique physical state, consciousness channelises his/her thoughts to take shape. Let us take an example. In a company, the CEO sits in a luxurious office and chalks out a plan for the company in a few hours. At the other end of the spectrum is a labourer who spends countless hours every day of his life, bringing the CEO’s thoughts into reality. This is the play of consciousness. Both are unique specimens of consciousness, the ability to manifest. The level of consciousness of the CEO is much higher than that of the labourer and, therefore, the power of his thought. The higher the level, the greater is one’s ability to manifest one’s thoughts. The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is their levels of consciousness. How does one increase one’s level of consciousness? Conscio...

YOGI ASHWINI Every microcosm in this creation exists in layers. Cut across a bark or peel a fruit and you will see the layers. A human being too exists in layers, the panchkoshas — five layers of being. At a basic level you may relate to things around as substance, but at the subtler level they all possess energy. Every being, every object, every event, every day corresponds to a specific charge of energy. In yoga, you access this creation from the realm of energy. It is from the level of energy that you effect a change on the physical plane. When you start relating to the dimension of energy, you free yourself from the ties of rituals and customs, men and material, and that’s when the underlying patterns of this creation are revealed to you. You are then able to tune yourself to those patterns and pave your way for union with the Supreme. Look at the lives of great men from the past — Krishna, Rama, Christ, Guru Nanak... Today we celebrate their birth, marriage, victory and sa...