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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...
Articles on Yoga
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Yogic Neuroscience: Developing the Soma of the Brain and Beyond
This is a Vedanet.com exclusive article by Dr. David Frawley Soma is part of a vast cosmic...
This is why Shiva is so relevant
He is a deity of the eons, not just a historical or cultural image. Shiva is relevant to all of us...
Veda and Yoga are One: Veda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice
September 21,2016 / Articles on Yoga Core Teachings New Articles by David Frawley 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
April 22,2016 / Articles on Yoga Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsShiva and Prana Yoga from Shiva, the Lord of Yoga, by David Frawley Prana Yoga is one of...
Articles on Ayurveda
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The Expansion of Ayurveda and Yoga: Their Value for India and the World
December 19,2016 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsBy Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri, www.vedanet.com) Ayurveda 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,...
Why India will be celebrating National Ayurveda Day on Dhanteras
October 26,2016 / Articles on Ayurveda / 0 CommentsOn Lord Dhanvantari's birth anniversary, let us open ourselves to the power of healing within us. Ayurveda, India's natural system of healing has spread worldwide as an innovative and comprehensive system of mind-body medicine. Wherever yoga has...
Yoga and Ayurveda: The Sciences of Self-Realization and Self-Healing
October 12,2016 / Articles on Ayurveda Excerpts from Books / 0 CommentsFrom Dr. David Frawley’s Classic book on the subject Life (Ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world...
AYURVEDIC LIFE REGIMENS: Your Key to Complete Well-being
October 11,2016 / Articles on Ayurveda Excerpts from Books / 0 CommentsFrom Dr. David Frawley’s Classic text AYURVEDIC HEALING Sattvic Living All human beings should follow a sattvic or pure life‑style that gives peace and clarity of mind. The remedial measures in Ayurveda are generally of a sattvic...
Articles on Vedic Astrology
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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 Comments(one of a series of articles by David Frawley on Astrology in the Vedas) The Zodiac and Dirghatamas Some scholars have claimed that the Babylonians invented the zodiac of 360 degrees around 700 BCE, perhaps even earlier. Many claim that India...
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac and the Vedic Fire Ritual
June 13,2012 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 0 CommentsBy David Frawley (vedanet.com) written 2003, posted Dec. 2008 The 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...
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
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Yogic Neuroscience: Developing the Soma of the Brain and Beyond
This is a Vedanet.com exclusive article by Dr. David Frawley Soma is part of a vast cosmic symbolism in Vedic thought. For every Agni or form of the cosmic fire there is a corresponding Soma or nectar. In the human being we have access to special...
This is why Shiva is so relevant
He is a deity of the eons, not just a historical or cultural image. Shiva is relevant to all of us as a formulation of the highest truth and consciousness, the spiritual power behind nature, and the deeper self-awareness beyond the known...
Veda and Yoga are One: Veda is knowledge and Yoga is its practice
September 21,2016 / Articles on Yoga Core Teachings New Articles by David Frawley 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
April 22,2016 / Articles on Yoga Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsShiva and Prana Yoga from Shiva, the Lord of Yoga, by David Frawley 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...
Articles on Hinduism
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Bhagavad Gita as India's National Book
Dharma 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...
We need to embrace Shri Krishna now more than ever
August 24,2016 / Articles on Hinduism Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsFor the practice of yoga, Krishna is the Yogavatara, the incarnation of yoga in all its aspects of knowledge, devotion and action. If there is any single figure who represents India, its yogic spirituality, vibrant culture and great history, it is...
Why Guru Purnima is unique to Hindu dharma
July 19,2016 / Articles on Hinduism / 0 CommentsThe following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by DailyO Many 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...
India owes its tolerance to Hindu dharma
January 05,2016 / Articles on Hinduism Articles on India / 0 CommentsThis article by Dr David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) was first published by DailyO. India has been primarily Hindu in terms of culture and religion for many centuries, extending to thousands of years. Hinduism has endured remarkably through...
