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Your true self, Vedanta and modern psychology
March 22,2019 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by Zee News Modern psychology suffers from gaps, which the teachings of Vedanta address at a fundamental level. We live in an age of psychoanalysis. Since Freud a century...
Vedic Yoga and the Three Gunas
March 15,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga Core Teachings On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsIn the philosophy of Yoga, derived from the Samkhya system, all matter in the universe is reducible to one primary substance called Prakriti. Prakriti literally means the original power of action. It does not refer to substance in the physical sense...
Shiva and Shakti Yogas
March 11,2019 / Articles on Tantra Articles on Yoga Core Teachings New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsYoga means unification, which is first the unity of all the dualities and contraries that constitute the energies of life. Yoga philosophy teaches us to understand and transcend duality, but this rests upon harmonizing the dualities within us in a...
Shiva Ratri: Waking Up to your Immortal Self
March 04,2019 / Hindu Deities New Articles by David Frawley / 1 CommentsLook to your true Self beyond body and mind that are but your instruments of expression in the manifest worlds. Whatever you see is but a reflection of the power of Shiva! Lord Shiva is the supreme deity of ever-wakeful awareness, the veritable...
The Fifteenfold Non-dualistic Raja Yoga of Shankaracharya
February 26,2019 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsShankara, the Great Yogi Shankaracharya, or Shankara the teacher, is one of the greatest spiritual masters in the history of India. Shankara has often been called the greatest philosopher of India, if not of all time and of the entire world. His...
The Space Within the Heart
February 20,2019 / Articles on Vedic Counseling New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThere is a space within ourselves, the space within the heart. It is not a physical space but the space of consciousness itself, the very presence of the Divine. We seldom dwell in this inner space, except in deep sleep, when we return to it...
Tantra and its Misconceptions: Reclaiming the Essence from the Illusions
February 08,2019 / Articles on Tantra / 0 CommentsThe best way to understand real Tantra is as an expanded form of Raja Yoga. Like the Yoga Sutras and in more detail Tantra teaches asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi, but providing many more specific forms and...
The Original Teachings of Yoga: From Patanjali Back to Hiranyagarbha
February 01,2019 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsMany people today look to Patanjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, as the father or founder of the greater system of Yoga. While Patanjali's work is very important and worthy of profound examination, a study of the ancient literature on Yoga...
Ayurveda and Vedic Counseling: What is the Relationship?
January 24,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsIn this article we will discuss the relationship between Clinical Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Counseling on one hand, and between Ayurvedic Counseling and Vedic Counseling on the other. Our goal is to make it clear to the reader what Vedic Counseling is...
The Ancient Yoga of the Sun
January 14,2019 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsWhat if the most powerful force for energizing all Yoga practices were as obvious and visible as the Sun? The fact is that it is. The Sun, properly understood not merely as an outer but as an inner energy source, reflects the supreme light of...
Secrets of the Five Pranas
January 09,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsAll that exists in the three heavens rests in the control of Prana. As a mother her children, oh Prana, protect us and give us splendor and wisdom. Prashna Upanishad II.13 To change something we must alter the energy which creates it. This...
Rishi Tales 2: Foreword by Dr David Frawley
January 09,2019 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe following foreword was written by Dr. David Frawley to U. Mahesh Prabhu’s book RISHI TALES 2. The book is available on Amazon.com | Amazon Kindle | Google Play BOOKS Wisdom is best conveyed in stories as it is experiential in...
Agni Ayurveda
December 27,2018 / Articles on Ayurveda Core Teachings / 0 CommentsThe role of fire is well known in traditional systems of medicine, which use the great elements of nature for healing purposes. However, one system in particular is built around a profound understanding of our biological fires. This is 'Ayurveda',...
Yoga Psychology and the Yoga Sutras: The Sovereign Remedy to Go Beyond All Sorrow
December 22,2018 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsThe Yoga Sutras of Rishi Patanjali portrays a psychological view of Yoga, not a physical Yoga, which is only mentioned in passing. The Yoga Sutras first of all defines Yoga as Samadhi or the state of Self-realization, for which all other...
Yoga and Ayurveda's View of Depression and How to Overcome It
December 09,2018 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsDepression is becoming epidemic, particularly in the affluent Western world. It is afflicting young and old, rich and poor, educated and uneducated alike. To counter it special anti-depressant drugs are being prescribed in ever increasing record...
Vedic Counseling: A New Model
December 01,2018 / Articles on Vedic Counseling New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe Counseling Renaissance Today we are discovering many new dynamic tools for understanding ourselves and for bringing greater meaning into our lives, not simply at a physical level, but at deeper levels of consciousness. Our model of the human...
Consciousness, the Key to All Vedic Disciplines
November 28,2018 / Articles on Vedic Counseling Core Teachings / 0 CommentsModern physics is looking for a unitary field of consciousness to explain the coherence of the laws of nature. Such a universal consciousness is proposed behind and beyond all time, space and energy, as their origin and end. It is the ultimate...
Ayurveda and the Mind: Keys to Yoga and Ayurveda Psychology
November 25,2018 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsBy Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Ayurveda is inherently a psychological as much as it is a physical system of medicine. Its scope of practice includes both physical (sharirika) and mental (manasika) diseases. Therefore, we cannot...
