Articles on Yoga

Herbology for Yogis   Traditional Yoga has always rested on a special yogic diet with special yogic herbs to go …

Meditation is the key practice of traditional Yoga and the prime factor behind an authentic Ayurvedic lifestyle. Meditation goes to …

By David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) In the following article we will discuss the Vedic principle of Soma and its …

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

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 …

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. …