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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...
Essence of the Yoga Sutras
November 13,2018 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe following article by Dr. David Frawley was first published by Zee News If we look deeply within we can discern that the essence of our being is the light of consciousness, not the compulsions of the mind or the biology of the body. This is the...
Hinduism is a religion, but it is something more: David Frawley
November 06,2018 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe following interview of Dr David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) with Darshana Ramdev was published in The Deccan Chronicle The crowd that gathered at David Frawley's Why I Became A Hindu, braving the afternoon heat, seemed almost geared for...
Diwali 2018 And Rama Rajya
November 06,2018 / 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...
Dr David Frawley's Interview in Deccan Herald
October 30,2018 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsDr. Frawley’s interview with the Deccan Herald, one of the largest newspapers of South India, at the time of his program at the Bangalore Lit...
Soma, the Bliss Principle in Vedic Knowledge
October 25,2018 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsSoma, the Counterpart of Agni Every form of Agni has a corresponding form of Soma, without which it cannot function properly. This is also an important fact to carefully consider. Soma is the principle of water, nourishment and bliss that...
The Use of Images and Murti Puja in the Vedas
October 12,2018 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsSome scholars say there is no murti puja, image worship or what is sometimes called idol worship in the Rigveda. We beg to differ and explain how the use of images and symbols is an essential part of Vedic worship, the Vedic language, Vedic...
Navaratri: World's longest, most dramatic and direct worship of the Universal Mother
October 11,2018 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsIn no other major religion of the world is the Goddess so boldly and colourfully worshipped as the Mother of the Universe, as she is honoured in Hindu Dharma. Durga Devi is first honoured in the famous Vedic Durga Sukta, composed of...
The Upanishads, India's enduring legacy of Self-knowing
September 30,2018 / New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThe following article by Dr. David Frawley was first published by Zee News Self-knowledge is the foundation of all knowledge. If we don't first know ourselves, how can we claim to truly know anything at all? The Upanishads are...
Our Daily Journey in Consciousness
September 22,2018 / Articles on Yoga New Articles by David Frawley On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsOur entire lives form an ongoing journey into consciousness that occurs one day at a time. We should treat each day as sacred with its own importance as a doorway into eternity. In this way we can take our practice, whether of Yoga,...
