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Ayurvedic Astrology: Hinduism Today
January 24,2021 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 0 CommentsAyurvedic Astrology: Hinduism Today With the Covid-19 era focusing humanity on wellness more than ever before, we present a little-known branch of knowledge—medical astrology. By Vamadeva Shastri Seeking...
Ayurveda and Vedic Counseling: What is the Relationship?
January 21,2021 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Vedic Counseling / 0 CommentsIn this article we will discuss the relationship between Ayurvedic Counseling and Vedic Counseling. Our goal is to make it clear what Vedic Counseling is and how it relates to other Vedic disciplines and cannot simply be equated with Ayurvedic...
Pranayama and Immunity
January 15,2021 / Articles on Ayurveda Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsPrana upholds the immunity of both body and mind. This power of prana is not simply the breath, with which it is related, but the deeper vital energy that sustains our entire embodied existence. Prana forms the subtle or energy body of the...
From Ego to Atman: Vedic View of Association
January 08,2021 / On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 0 CommentsEgo as the Basis of the Human Mind Each human being is a unique individual with his or her own angle of vision, point of view, or determination of reality. Yet unless we are able to recognize the different points of view of others or...
Ananda: What is its True Meaning?
December 28,2020 / Articles on Vedic Counseling Core Teachings / 0 CommentsAnanda is one of the key terms of Yoga and Vedanta, and like many of the others often misunderstood. Ananda is translated as bliss though it has no real equivalent in the English language. Bliss is at best a helpful approximation but can be...
The Healing Power of Shakti
December 17,2020 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi Articles on Tantra / 0 CommentsShakti, the intrinsic grace of the Divine Mother Goddess, holds the supreme power of spiritual, psychosomatic and bodily well-being. Connecting to Shakti we can unravel all the energies of healing - both for healing ourselves and healing others....
Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Asana
December 17,2020 / Articles on Yoga / 0 CommentsRaja Yoga commonly refers to the royal or higher Yoga of meditation. While the term is not specifically mentioned in the Yoga Sutras, the Yoga Sutra tradition has been commonly called Raja Yoga over time. Raja Yoga is an ancient term found in the...
The Yoga of Consciousness: The Supreme Yoga
December 13,2020 / Articles on Yoga On Advaita Vedanta & Ramana Maharshi / 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...
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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 12,2017 / 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 13,2018 / Articles on Vedic Astrology / 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 13,2016 / 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 13,2016 / 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...
