Articles on Yoga

Lord Shiva, among the great deities of Hinduism, most personifies the practice of Yoga. As Yogeshvara, the great lord of …

The Complexity of our Physical Existence   If you carefully examine your life, you can easily observe that our human …

Need for Higher Consciousness How can we bring a higher consciousness into the world to create peace and harmony, removing …

Vedic knowledge addresses the cosmos as a whole along with the depths of our own psyche, which it regards as …

  By Acharya David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Tantra and Veda: One Tradition   A number of writers and teachers, …

Upanishadic sages thousands of years ago understood the secrets of neuroscience but going beyond the physical body to higher levels …

By Acharya David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Shiva Yoga and Hamsa   The Hamsa is one of the key concepts …

In 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 but to the potential from which all forms of matter, energy and mind can arise. Prakriti is the original state of pure potential out of which all things become possible. Prakriti is the latent state of substance, like the seed that holds the potential for a great tree. It is the prima materia of the world of which matter, energy and mind are manifestations. Prakriti, we could say, is the causal or original form of all substances, from which their subtle and gross forms arise. It is extremely subtle, ethereal and transcendent, forming the basis for space that is its first material form.

Yoga means unification, which is first the unity of all the dualities and contraries that constitute the energies of life. …

Many people today look to Patanjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, as the father or founder of the greater …