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Yoga and Ayurveda: The Sciences of Self-Realization and Self-Healing
October 12,2016 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsYoga is one of the most extraordinary spiritual sciences that mankind has ever discovered. It is like a gem of great proportions, containing many facets whose light can illumine the whole of our lives with great meaning. Going back over five...
2020 and its Dangers for Humanity
March 01,2020 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 1 CommentsWe are all looking with deep concern about the current state of the world and what is happening today, which continues to surprise, confound and agitate us. The division and conflict on every continent is easy to see, but how to resolve it remains...
A Vedic Approach to Information Based Technology
June 13,2012 / Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) Read the full article in the New Global Indian (page 50) We live in an era of information based technology and the resultant global economy. We have witnessed the many wonders of high tech with its powerful...
A Vedic Consecration to the Spiritual Heart
June 13,2012 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Vedic Yoga and the Spiritual Heart The heart (hridaya) is the seat of the Self or Atman in Vedantic thought. Realization of the Self in the heart is the main Vedantic formulation of Moksha or liberation....
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...
Agni and Soma and Ayurvedic Alchemy
June 13,2012 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsThe following article is authored by Pavan Kanwar, an advanced student of Vamadeva. He can be reached at kingpavan@yahoo.com and even has a Website. One of the important images of the Rig Veda is Agni (the sacred fire) as the guide leading us to...
Agni and the Fire of Self-Inquiry
May 05,2018 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Self-inquiry (Atma-vichara), such as taught by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, is regarded as the simplest and most direct path to Self-realization. However, Self-inquiry is also very subtle and can be hard to...
Agni Ayurveda
June 25,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda / 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',...
An Ecological View of Ancient India
June 14,2012 / On Ancient India and Historical Issues / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley, first published in the Hindu in 2002, one of India's main national newspapers. History and Ecology Ecology is beginning to define how we look at the world and how we look at ourselves. Each geographical region in the world...
An Interview with Vamadeva Shastri (David Frawley) Padma Bhushan Recipient
August 02,2015 / Institute News / 0 CommentsBy Christina Collins, Jyotish Star E-Magazine Interview Date: 7/27/2015 This year, 2015, a few select Americans received the Padma awards, the highest civilian awards granted by the government of India. Padma awards are given for outstanding...
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Yoga Nidra according to Adi Shankara
November 18,2020 / 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...
The Soma of Universal Delight
June 13,2012 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi / 0 CommentsThe following article by Yogini Shambhavi was first published in Tathaastu Magazine. The Divine Feminine The most effective way to create and sustain universal harmony is to develop an environment of clarity, compassion, tolerance and acceptance,...
The Cosmic Waters and the Flow of Ma Ganga
June 13,2012 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi / 0 CommentsThe following article by Yogini Shambhavi was first published in Tathaastu Magazine. The Flow of the Yoga Shakti Yoga Shakti is the transformative power of consciousness, love and delight pulsating behind the forces of Nature and the very source of...
Shakti Bhava: the Healing Grace in Vedic Astrology
June 13,2012 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi Articles on Vedic Astrology / 0 CommentsThe article is available on Tathaastu Magazine. You can also down the PDF version of the magazine from our site here.
Empowering the Yogini Shakti in Every Woman
June 13,2012 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi / 0 CommentsThe following article by Yogini Shambhavi was first published in Tathaastu Magazine. Now, more than ever, women need to open themselves to the flow of divine grace and the power of the Devi, the Mother Goddess, to facilitate the birth of a higher...
The Healing Power of Shakti
June 13,2012 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi Articles on Tantra / 0 CommentsShakti, the intrinsic grace of the Divine Mother Goddess, holds the supreme power of spiritual, psychosomatic and bodily well-being. Connecting to Shakti we can unravel all the energies of healing - both for healing ourselves and healing others....
The Mantra to the Supreme Light
June 13,2012 / Core Teachings / 0 CommentsAbove is the Mantra to the Supreme Light, Param Jyoti Mantra, which is a famous Vedic, Vedantic and Tantric Mantra. We could also spell it phonetically as OM HREEM HAMSA SO HAM SWAHA! This mantra brings us into the Divine or inner light and causes...
Vayu Rahasya: The Secret of Vayu
June 13,2012 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsVayu, the Cosmic Power Vayu is one of the key concepts of Vedic thought that has great importance in Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedanta. It has many profound implications both at a cosmic level and relative to our own individual lives. Indeed if one...
Sacred Activism: Awakening the Divine Powers in Nature
June 13,2012 / Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsThere are many movements going on today that aim to change or improve the world in this time of global crisis. Almost everyone is encouraging us to become an activist in one form or another, for one cause or another. While I don't doubt the...
Relating to Spiritual Experiences
June 13,2012 / Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsIf we take up any form of higher Yoga practice, pranayama, mantra or meditation, we are likely to have various experiences, some of which may be quite dramatic. These experiences may be spiritual, psychological or even physical in nature or some...
Towards a New Dharmic Vision of Humanity
June 13,2012 / Articles on Hinduism Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) The Meaning of Dharma: Dharma is perhaps the key term for the great spiritual traditions of India and East Asia, Hindu and Buddhist, whether relative to their understanding of the outer world of nature or the...
Mantra Yoga Book in Hinduism Today
June 13,2012 / Articles on Tantra Excerpts from Books / 0 CommentsNote special Hinduism Today feature on Mantra Yoga Includes extensive excerpts from Vamadeva's new highly lauded book Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound. Jan.-Feb.-March 2012 edition of Hinduism Today Magazine.
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Yoga Nidra according to Adi Shankara
November 18,2020 / 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...
Diwali and Rama Rajya
November 15,2020 / 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...
Everyone Should Learn Ayurveda
November 12,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsAyurveda is a science and yoga of right living that can be widely used by everyone. Everyone can benefit from learning the basics of Ayurveda as part of understanding one’s body and mind, how nature works and the deeper Consciousness behind the...
Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda: The Meaning of Chikitsa
November 10,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsYOGA THERAPY OR YOGA CHIKITSA The Sanskrit term for therapy throughout its medical literature is Chikitsa, which literally refers to the application of consciousness (chit) or caring. Yoga Therapy is called Yoga Chikitsa. Yet...
Yoga-Vedanta: The Highest Teaching of Yoga
November 05,2020 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsYoga is defined as the unity of the individual Self or reincarnating consciousness, Jivatman, with the universal or transcendent Self, Paramatman. The nature of this unity is best explained in Vedantic texts like Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and...
Vedic Astrology as a Way of Self-knowledge
October 31,2020 / Articles on Vedic Astrology Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsVedic Astrology and Self-knowledge Vedic astrology or Jyotish is an integral part of all Vedic teachings as it is one of the most important aspects of Vedic knowledge. Yet we approach Vedic astrology in a way that may be different from...
Yoga and Ayurveda Practices to Protect our Nervous Systems in the High Tech Era
October 29,2020 / 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...
WEBINAR RECORDING: The Vedic View on CRITICISM
October 27,2020 / Webinar / 0 CommentsWhy is criticism important as part of the learning process? Why can it lead to conflict and enmity? How can we use it as a tool for self-improvement, social harmony and higher awareness? Differences of opinion are natural occurrences in life....
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