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Addiction and the Digital Age – The Need for Higher Consciousness
November 14,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Vedic Counseling / 1 CommentsThere has been a strong natural healing movement in the world over recent decades. The many natural health practitioners and easy availability of herbs and natural foods indicate this. However, we see an increasing tendency for people to look to...
Yogic Neuroscience: Developing the Soma of the Brain and Beyond
Soma is part of a vast cosmic symbolism in Vedic thought and cannot be reduced to a single form, much less a single plant as some scholars have proposed. For every Agni or form of the cosmic fire there is a corresponding Soma, water or nectar. In...
Why India will be celebrating National Ayurveda Day on Dhanteras
October 25,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsAyurveda, India's natural system of healing has spread worldwide as an innovative and comprehensive system of mind-body medicine.Wherever yoga has gone, ayurveda is now following as the essence of yogic healing for both physical and psychological...
Diwali and Rama Rajya
October 25,2019 / Hindu Deities New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsDiwali celebrates the return of Sri Rama to Ayodhya after fourteen years of exile. This follows immediately after Rama’s great victory over Ravana and his recovery of his beloved wife Sita. As such, Rama’s return indicates the triumph of light...
The Expansion of Ayurveda and Yoga: Their Value for India and the World
October 25,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsAyurveda is the natural healing system of India and its civilizational field of influence going back to Vedic times several thousand years ago. Ayurveda is one of the oldest, most intricate, and elaborate forms of traditional medicine in the world,...
Celebrating Ayurveda Day October 25, 2019
October 24,2019 / Articles on Vedic Management / 0 CommentsOctober 25, 2019 marks Ayurveda Day. Traditionally it is called Dhanteras and occurs just before Diwali, India’s famous festival of light. It is said to be the birth or manifestation day of Sri Dhanvantari, the deity of Ayurveda, the ideal...
The Fifteenfold Non-dualistic Raja Yoga of Shankaracharya
October 15,2019 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsShankara, the Great Yogi Shankaracharya, or Adi 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 the entire world. His...
Anxiety and its Treatment through Yoga and Ayurveda
October 13,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsAnxiety is almost epidemic in the modern higher tech world, though it is a long standing human problem. Anxiety is largely Vata Dosha disorder in Ayurvedic medicine, a problem that arises from an excess of the air and space elements and lack of...
The Aryan-Dravidian Divide Is A Political Myth
October 13,2019 / Articles on India On Ancient India and Historical Issues / 0 CommentsTraveling throughout India, including much time in the south, I have been trying to make sense of the proposed Aryan-Dravidian divide, and the call for a pure Dravidian culture that one hears in Tamil Nadu. The first thing one notices is that the...
Vedic Origins of the Europeans: the Children of Danu
October 11,2019 / On Ancient India and Historical Issues / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) This article shows how the early Indo-European language speakers in Europe like the Celts, Germans, Greeks and Scythians, were possibly based upon a Vedic people called the Danavas or Sudanavas (good...
How India can establish Ram Rajya today
October 07,2019 / Articles on India New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsLet us embrace the cause of Dharma on earth and give up the conflict and duality caused by adharma Sri Rama is the ideal ruler whose image has dominated the long history of India from the earliest era. He is the avatar of Dharma, which is right...
The Goddess Kali and the Spiritual Heart
October 05,2019 / Hindu Deities On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 1 CommentsBy David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) The Role of the Spiritual Heart and Self-Inquiry Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's teachings on non-duality emphasize the role of the spiritual heart or hridaya as the seat of the Atman and the place of...
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi: An Integral View
October 03,2019 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsBhagavan Ramana Maharshi, perhaps modern India's greatest sage, recommended Atma-Vichara or Self-inquiry as the best and most direct approach for Self-realization. However, a careful examination of his teachings reveals that he recommended...
The Meaning Of Durga
September 29,2019 / Hindu Deities New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsNo country in the world demonstrates such enduring reverence for the Great Mother Goddess, as does India. The Goddess is celebrated in every form, aspect and quality, through music, art, ritual, mantra and meditation. She is honoured in women, the...
Who is Goddess Durga and why we celebrate Navratras
September 28,2019 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsDurga is protective form of Shakti, burning up all ignorance, as her fiery nature energises our highest motivation. The following article is by Yogini Shambhavi Devi The Devi-Mahatmya (Greatness of the Goddess) glorifies the Mother Goddess as the...
Herbs for the Practice of Yoga 1: Introduction
September 23,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsHerbology for Yogis Traditional Yoga has always rested on a special yogic diet with special yogic herbs to go along with it. Herbs are powerful aids in the practice of yoga, working at both physical and mental levels. They are useful...
