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January 11,2023 / Articles on Vedic Counseling New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsWe human beings are embodied creatures defined by our birth in a particular physical body as indicating our real identity and the focus of our lives. Our minds are not only located in the body but ruled by an entire set of bodily needs, imperatives, appearances and actions and their daily...
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January 05,2023 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi Articles on Vedic Astrology / 0 CommentsBy Yogini Shambhavi As the great power of time, Kali's Shakti creates the different Yugas or world ages that humanity passes through during the long cycles of cosmic evolution. Kali is the Goddess of eternity watching over all our temporal changes and facilitating those which promote our...
Comparison and the Incomparable Self
January 02,2023 / Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsYour inner Self (Atman) and true nature cannot be compared to anything. It has no name, form or action, no shape, size or color. It is beyond all elements and qualities of nature. It is beyond body and mind, time and appearance altogether. It dwells within everything yet is not limited to anything....
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December 29,2022 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsMost Ayurvedic practitioners look upon Lord Dhanvantari, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, as the deity of Ayurveda and ideal doctor. Certainly that is an important tradition worthy of following based on profound Puranic stories and symbolism. Yet in the Rigveda, the oldest Vedic text, and...
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December 21,2022 / Articles on Vedic Astrology New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsI have been writing for some years about 2020 as indicating the beginning of a "New Time of Troubles" for humanity, dangerous from 2020-2028, but continuing long beyond that. This relates astronomically to the Winter Solstice point transiting the Galactic Center in the constellation of...
The Ancient Yoga of the Sun
December 19,2022 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsFor the Winter Solstice December 21, which marks the rebirth of the Sun and Agni What 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,...
Yoga as Samadhi
December 18,2022 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsYoga is defined as Samadhi in the Yoga Sutras. Yet few Yoga practitioners know what Samadhi is or how to approach it. But without understanding Samadhi one cannot understand Yoga in the true sense of the term. Samadhi is complete coherence and composure of mind, the mind fully united with the...
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December 15,2022 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsToday we are spending large amounts of time daily in front of computer screens, cell phones, other electrical items or an electrified urban environment. In the process we are exposing ourselves to powerful artificial electrical energies on many levels. This may be a...
Yoga Nidra according to Adi Shankara
December 10,2022 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsYoga Nidra is a popular topic today but seldom taken to the depth that it is presented with in the Vedantic teachings. Here we will examine it according to the views of the great teacher, Shankara. Adi Shankara or Shankaracharya is the most lauded exponent of Advaita or non-dualistic...
Why Sri Krishna is the Avatar of Yoga
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November 30,2022 / Articles on Vedic Counseling Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsSantosha, the yogic state of contentment, is not ordinary contentment, such as being happy personally with who are, what we own, or having our desires fulfilled. It is not mere complacency or being satisfied with outward enjoyments. Santosha is the contentment and peace that arises...
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November 26,2022 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsTraditional Yoga, as defined in key Yoga texts like the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, is first of all a “Yoga of Consciousness”, requiring a deepening and expansion of an inner awareness. It is not a mere Yoga of outer action or bodily movements, but a Yoga of meditative inquiry. Its...
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November 25,2020 / Articles on Yoga On the Vedas & their interpretation / 1 CommentsBy David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) In the following article we will discuss the Vedic...
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