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The Yoga of Consciousness: The Supreme Yoga
August 13,2020 / Articles on Yoga New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsTraditional Yoga, as defined in key Yoga texts like the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, is first of all a “Yoga of Consciousness”, requiring a deepening and expansion of an inner awareness. It is not a mere Yoga of outer action or bodily...
We need to embrace Shri Krishna now more than ever
August 11,2020 / 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 Sri Krishna is the Avatar of Yoga
August 10,2020 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsSri Krishna is the only human guru and incarnation of Vishnu called Yogavatara or the Avatar of Yoga, and Yogeshvara or the Lord of Yoga. The Bhagavad Gita remains the most important and foundational Yoga Shastra or definitive Yoga text. To...
Pranayama and Immunity
August 07,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsPrana upholds the immunity of body and mind. This upholding prana is not simply the breath, with which it is related, but the deeper vital energy that sustains our entire embodied existence. Prana also forms the subtle or energy body of...
Rama and Sita through a Yogic Vision
August 04,2020 / Hindu Deities / 0 Comments"The real question behind the Ramayana is not whether monkeys could speak or if Rama and Sita are politically correct by today’s opinions, but how we can live a higher truth." Lord Rama is much more than an historical person. He...
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi: An Integral View
July 27,2020 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsBhagavan Ramana Maharshi, perhaps modern India's greatest sage, recommended Atma-Vichara or Self-inquiry as the best and most direct approach for Self-realization. However, a careful examination of his teachings reveals that he recommended...
The Three Gunas: How to Balance Your Consciousness
July 23,2020 / Articles on Ayurveda Core Teachings / 0 CommentsAyurveda provides a special language for understanding the primal forces of Nature and shows us how to work with them on all levels. According to Yoga and Ayurveda, Nature consists of three primal qualities, which are the main powers of Cosmic...
Knowing the Unknown and Unknowing the Known
July 20,2020 / New Articles by David Frawley On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsWhat is the known? It is name, form and number, which are the main determinative factors or coordinates of the mind. The known is the mind and is held as memory in the mind down to a subconscious level. Apart from the mind's concepts...
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
February 28,2017 / Articles on Yoga Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsIf 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
February 28,2017 / Articles on Yoga Hindu Deities / 0 CommentsIf 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 11,2020 / 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 04,2020 / Articles on Hinduism Articles on Yoga / 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...
