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Vedic Counseling and Karmic Counseling
January 19,2020 / Articles on Vedic Counseling New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsKarmic Reckoning: Taking Control of Your Life Counseling revolves around examining what we are doing in life and learning to make our actions more effective. To improve our efficiency we may observe what other people are doing according to...
Yoga and Buddhism: Similarities and Differences
January 09,2020 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsHindu Yoga and Buddhism are sister traditions which evolved in the same dharmic culture of ancient India. The Dalai Lama calls them "twin brothers". They use many of the same terms and follow many of the same principles and practices. For this...
Why Ayurvedic Students Should Study Vedanta
January 05,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsAll Vedic knowledge, which Ayurveda is part of, aims at Self-realization - the recognition of our true nature (Atman or Purusha) as pure consciousness beyond body and mind. This is the highest goal of human life and grants us liberation from the...
2020 and its Dangers for Humanity
December 31,2019 / Articles on Vedic Astrology New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsMany of us are looking with deep concern about the current state of the world and what 2020 will bring. The division and conflict on every continent is easy to see, but how to reduce it remains problematical. While we should not give in to the usual...
Veda and Yoga are One: Veda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice
December 30,2019 / Articles on Yoga On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsVeda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice. It is that simple. They are two sides of the same truth. Yoga not only leads us to Veda, but also expresses it. Veda embodies itself through Yoga as its manifestation. Veda, from the root “vid” to...
What is Samadhi and How to Achieve It?
December 26,2019 / Articles on Yoga / 1 CommentsSamadhi is one of the key words of deeper Yoga practice, if not the most important. Yet few Yoga teachers or practitioners know what Samadhi is, how to define it or how to approach it. But without understanding Samadhi it is difficult to understand...
Vedantic Meditation
December 23,2019 / Core Teachings On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsFrom darkness lead us to light, from non-being lead us to being, from death lead us to immortality. Brihadaranyaka UpanishadI.3.28 I laud the flame of awareness that is placed before all things, the deity of the sacred...
The Ancient Yoga of the Sun
December 19,2019 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsLet us Honor Surya, the Solar Godhead at the Winter Solstice and for the Entire Year What 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...
Articles on Yoga
Veda and Yoga are One: Veda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice
December 30,2019 / Articles on Yoga On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsVeda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice. It is that simple. They are two sides of the same...
Shiva and Prana Yoga
November 20,2019 / Articles on Yoga Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsShiva and Prana Yoga Prana Yoga is one of the most important Yoga traditions and an...
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,...
This is why Shiva is so relevant
If we carefully examine the tradition of Shiva worship, we find something very different than the...
Articles on Ayurveda
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...
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,...
AYURVEDIC LIFE REGIMENS: Your Key to Complete Well-being
August 09,2019 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsHerbs are like subtle foods. They can be taken in small or large doses. Large doses (more than one ounce of herbs per day) should usually not be taken without special study or professional guidance. In small doses herbs are like strong food...
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...
Articles on Vedic Astrology
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the Vedic Fire Ritual
December 02,2019 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 0 CommentsThe following article proposes a Vedic rationale for the nature and sequence of the twelve signs of the zodiac. It shows how the zodiac could have been invented as a form of Vedic sacrifice (Yajna) following the Vedic view of the Gods, the worlds...
Astrology as a Spiritual Science
October 13,2016 / Articles on Vedic Astrology Excerpts from Books / 0 CommentsFrom the Classic Text “Astrology of the Seers” by Dr. David Frawley Astrology should be a spiritual science. Our birth chart is a mirror of our soul and its particular incarnation. In our stars we see the growth and evolution of our inner being...
Vedic Origins of the Zodiac: The Hymns of Dirghatamas in the Rig Veda
June 13,2012 / Articles on Vedic Astrology On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsSome scholars have claimed that the Babylonians invented the zodiac of 360 degrees around 700 BCE, perhaps even earlier. Many claim that India received the knowledge of the zodiac from Babylonia or even later from Greece. However, as old as the Rig...
Nakshatras and Upanakshatras
June 13,2012 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 1 CommentsDr David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) The Vedas show a division of the zodiac into 27 Nakshatras or lunar mansions. That the Vedas might have more subtle divisions of the zodiac than 27 should not surprise us. A twentysevenfold division would...
Articles on Yoga
Veda and Yoga are One: Veda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice
December 30,2019 / Articles on Yoga On the Vedas & their interpretation / 0 CommentsVeda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice. It is that simple. They are two sides of the same truth. Yoga not only leads us to Veda, but also expresses it. Veda embodies itself through Yoga as its manifestation. Veda, from the root “vid” to...
Shiva and Prana Yoga
November 20,2019 / Articles on Yoga Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsShiva and Prana Yoga Prana Yoga is one of the most important Yoga traditions and an integral part of the worship of Lord Shiva, who represents the highest immortal Prana of pure consciousness beyond time, space and...
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...
This is why Shiva is so relevant
If we carefully examine the tradition of Shiva worship, we find something very different than the shadow of superstition often cast upon it. Shaivism contains among the world’s most sophisticated mystical and yogic philosophies. It has numerous...
Articles on Hinduism
We need to embrace Shri Krishna now more than ever
August 23,2019 / Articles on Hinduism Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsIf there is any single figure who represents India, its yogic spirituality, vibrant culture and great history, it is Shri Krishna. This is not any easy choice as India is also the land of Buddha, Rama, Shankara and other sages of the highest order.
Why Guru Purnima is unique to Hindu dharma
July 14,2019 / Articles on Hinduism / 0 CommentsMany religions honour their founder or great teacher in various ways. Hindu dharma is perhaps unique in honouring the guru or spiritual master as a principle in itself beyond any particular personality, philosophy or revelation.The true guru is a...
Bhagavad Gita as India's National Book
June 08,2019 / Articles on Hinduism Articles on India / 0 CommentsDharma is not a matter of dogma, but of doing the best possible in any given situation, however difficult. The Bhagavad Gita remains the book that can be best described as India’s national book. For thousands of years, up to the present, the Gita...
India owes its tolerance to Hindu dharma
January 05,2016 / Articles on Hinduism Articles on India / 0 CommentsIndia has been primarily Hindu in terms of culture and religion for many centuries, extending to thousands of years. Hinduism has endured remarkably through long periods of foreign invasion and hostile rule, though other ancient religions have long...
