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If you happen to take a flight at night, and get a window seat, please look out of the window when you take off. You will see thousands of tiny dots of light coming from thousands of houses that lie below and if you could peep inside any of them, you will find people not very different from one another, going through similar life experiences; stressed, disturbed by the same set of problems  such as health, finances, relationships and/or emotions. These stresses weigh an individual down all through life keeping him or her entangled in the daily struggle of existence; and before one knows, the hair has turned grey, the spine is bent, the skin shrivelled, the eyesight dim, the body is host to a plethora of diseases, and the stress… it only increases, never subsides, causing the body to deteriorate further and faster. Psychological stress is the prime factor that expedites physical ageing. Medically, this stress is associated with the shortening of the telomere length in the DNA...

Dussehra is the last day of Navratri; and commemorates the victory of good over evil. The legend has it that on this day Lord Rama defeated the demon Ravana, Goddess Durga demolished the buffalo demon Mahishasura. These are just two. There are countless accounts of why we celebrate Dussehra — every region, every group, every faith has its own version. What then is the relevance of marking these dates? The answer is simple — energy. For those seeking the higher truths in life, these stories are cues mere to trace the underlying patterns of Creation and to harness the energies that lie therein. For spiritual aspirants it is the day for relieving oneself of the physical, emotional and financial imbalances to realize the divinity within. Spiritual practises and various mantra chantings on this day as detailed by your Guru can have a more pronounced effect of removing negativity within. —Yogi Ashwini is an adept at Sanatan Kriya

By now we have understood that Prana is the energy we breathe, the energy we see, think, feel, hear, imagine and perceive in different forms.  Prana is everything.  It is entire Creation. It is the gyan we receive. At the physical level, it is the energy that gets translated through various layers (koshas) and manifests as the physical. Manik , a NASA scientist, carried out an experiment, staying without solid food for nearly 120 days, only on prana from sunlight minimally aided by small quantities of liquids. It becomes important to note that human life continues to exist as long as it can retain prana of a certain frequency even in the absence of food. Our bodies absorb prana and utilise it for vital functions. Used-up prana is given back to the environment and is further used as life force by beings lower in the evolutionary ladder. This process continues till it reaches the lowest form of Creation. Different pranic frequencies have different colours, part of a sp...

On one of my expeditions to Himalayas, I met a  tapasvi . He had a mystical calmness about himself. We had a long conversation after which I  thought  of leaving something for his expenses. I slipped my hand beneath the  asan  on which he was sitting to leave some money behind. As I did so, something pricked me. I lifted the cloth to find iron nails below… One of the 5  niyams  in  ashthang yog  is  ‘tapa’ , that is, to heat the  body  by giving it pain. It is a very basic purification, a means to cancel out your negative  karmas , a tool to aid progress and evolution. Fasting/  Upavaas  is one way of putting yourself through pain.  Upavaas  has a much greater connotation than what it is generally misunderstood as - mere holding back from eating certain foods. At Dhyan Ashram,  sadhaks  observe  Upavaas  in its aunthentic sense, that is, giving up pleasure to observe austerities...

Few days back a certain spiritual guru was ca ught up in a sex-scandal, a little before that some other was accused of deceiving people by offering impractical solutions, yet another was seen fleeing away in the guise of a woman from a political rally, the same gentleman was found in a hospital getting treated for dengue after having sold treatments to all kinds of diseases to the world. Another person having failed in his business grew a beard and started teaching spirituality (now he is flourishing). There is a spiritual organisation that has roped in an MBA to give lectures on television, the lady earned them a lot of following but on the subject of spirituality she calls atma as at-ma and shanti as shanty.... (Dhwani is the basis of spiritual sciences. Every sound is a vibration and corresponds to a specific energy. If you change the frequency of that vibration, then the energy changes, as does its effect.) If someone takes upon the role of a spiritual guide and adulterates th...

The soul incarnates into a physical body, which is made up of the five elements in various permutations and combinations. Reincarnating birth after birth depending on the kind of karmas , which one does in a lifetime. There are certain souls who dont reincarnate, either because they are finished with their karmic cycle of bhu lok (the prithvi lok ) or because they are stuck in a different dimension of existence and are unable to manifest in the human body, as their karmic balance is not sufficient to entitle them for a human birth, these souls either remain suspended as energies and are called ghosts and spirits or they go to a different dimension of existence called the pitr lok or the lok of the ancestors. Whatever dimension or level of existence that they are in, unless they have been freed from the cycle of birth and death they need energy from their offsprings to offset their karmic balance to enable them to reincarnate again. Shradhs are an important part of the Hin...