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Creation, like anything else that is orderly, rests on certain fundamental laws which cannot be broken, the law of karma being the foremost. Even the Gods are bound by this law and no one is over it. The modern man who insists on his superiority over nature and who foolishly tries to defy the laws of nature to create a utopian world for himself, is stuck in the spiral of devolution. The result is visible if you look at today’s youth who wear thick glasses, have bent spines, grey hair, improper digestion, addiction towards machines and an artificial life. Why? The answer lies in the law of karma. What you sow, so shall you reap. The more you collect, the more pain you accumulate. A simple solution to the above maladies is to work with the law of karma rather than against it. How? If you look around, you will find a lot of hungry people on the road, birds and wild animals like dogs dying in accidents, unattended and unfed. Cows and bulls, which were worshipped by Vedic, Egypti...

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 ...

YOGI ASHWINI tells you how to rejuvenate your body and slow down ageing    Your body survives on prana or energy. There are many sources of  prana  that provide vital nourishment to the body — food, air, water, sunlight, breath and many subtle forces. Of the different kinds of food available in nature, some help to build up tissues, some aid in immunity, some expel wastes and some provide energy to work. The diet and regime that we follow play a vital role in the preservation of the body in the long run. The physical body continuously requires energy and this energy is produced by continuous process of metabolism by agnis. The continuous play of agnis ultimately results in destruction of cells, causing ageing. Optimum Utilisation Yoga and ayurveda emphasise optimum utilisation and conservation of energy. With yogic practices, the body is trained to conserve prana or vital energy. It saves itself from the rigorous process of consumption of vital pran...

Sanatan Kriya is rooted in the principle of prakriti (nature) and balance, and rids one of vikriti (imbalance) and prevents negativity from entering a being. Like everything in creation, our body too runs on the principles of balance and imbalance. When you are in a state of balance, you exude health, beauty, glow and radiance whereas imbalances cause disease and ageing. Ayurveda is not concerned with symptomatic treatment but concentrates on identifying and treating the root cause of imbalances in the body. Balance between doshas, dhatus and malas (waste) is the key to mental and physical wellness. Indiscriminate dieting, using steroids and specialised diets which aim at bringing about a specific body shape (ultra thin, muscular) have drastic side effects in the long run. These are often the cause of serious ailments of the immune system and psychological disorders. The best way to lose weight is by using natural products rather tha...

It is said you are what your desires are. No matter how evolved you think you are, your desires will reveal exactly what you are. The change of desires from the physical to the subtle, and from the self to entire creation is a sign of personal evolution. Reading scriptures or lecturing on them with a thought of “how much name, fame or money would I get” is a clear sign of being only at a basic level of evolution. Knowing nothing but desiring only the divine is a highly evolved state. Desire is basically made of: I want something. ‘I’ means the desire of the soul through the physical (the ego) or the instrument. ‘Want’ means to possess something and to possess because one knows that one doesn’t have it. ‘That’ is the energy manifested in the physical. Through the elements, the soul wants to possess this energy. This can be understood better by traveling a little into the past. When we were in our previous bodies, in our last life, we had experienced a lack of ‘something’ in li...

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...

Soul is a unique pranic frequency. In unmanifested form it exists as the part of Para Brahma just as salt exists in ocean. Only when it desires a certain experience or a set of experiences, it chooses to go through the cycle of karmas or birth and death. The basic reason of the soul separating from the source is ego, or recognising one’s existence as an individual. The ancients called it “asmita”, “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 jeev-atma. Chitta is all-pervading, which resides in each one of us as buddhi. Buddhi is unlimited mind, it is the ability in us that has the potential to become unlimited. However, it remains shadowed by manas the sheath, which blurs its vision, which provides logic to the mind and fetters it with the vrittis. Together, buddhi and manas fo...