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Ayurveda and the Mind: An Overview
April 15,2018 / 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...
Mantra Yoga & Shakti Mantras
Shakti Bija Mantras Adapted from book Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound Copyright David Frawley 2010 Besides the mantric power of letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, there is another series of powerful bija or single-syllable mantras, which...
India’s Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy: The Role of Yoga and Dharmic Traditions
April 09,2018 / Articles on India New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsThis article is a summary of the address delivered by Dr. David Frawley, Founder & Director, American Institute of Vedic Studies on 29th January, 2018 at the Workshop on India’s Foreign Policy organised by India Foundation in...
Discovering the Secret Power of Hanuman
March 29,2018 / Hindu Deities New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsHanuman endows us with the Atma-Shakti or self-power to realise our higher potential and accomplish what is magical. Hanuman is the great hero of the Ramayana, the wonderful story's most fascinating character. Though having the form of a...
How to Cope with the Digital Age with Yoga and Ayurveda for the Mind
March 29,2018 / Articles on Ayurveda New Articles by David Frawley / 0 CommentsMost of us spend several hours on the day relative to a computer, tablet or smart phone. This creates tension but also depletes the mind and can even dull the senses. On top of this we may be wired up to music for hours. The...
Rama and Sita through a Yogic Vision
March 24,2018 / Hindu Deities New Articles by David Frawley / 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." writes Dr David Frawley Lord Rama is much more than an...
Yogic Neuroscience: Developing the Soma of the Brain
This is a Vedanet.com exclusive article by Dr. David Frawley The brain is capable of secreting powerful chemicals that can bring about extraordinary changes in body and mind. While drugs can be used to stimulate or substitute for these, there is...
Harmonizing the Windmills of Our Minds
March 04,2018 / Articles by Yogini Shambhavi / 0 CommentsShaktis in Nature There are Shaktis or hidden powers throughout Nature that can help us take our spiritual experiences to a higher level. There are ancient powerful vortexes on Mother Earth where we can connect to its spiraling Shakti...
Articles on Yoga
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Yogic Neuroscience: Developing the Soma of the Brain
This is a Vedanet.com exclusive article by Dr. David Frawley The brain is capable of secreting...
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 CommentsThe following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by India Facts: Veda, from the...
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 they 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
This is a Vedanet.com exclusive article by Dr. David Frawley The brain is capable of secreting powerful chemicals that can bring about extraordinary changes in body and mind. While drugs can be used to stimulate or substitute for these, there is...
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 CommentsThe following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by India Facts: Veda, from the root “vid” to know, refers to Knowledge in the highest sense as direct perception of the Eternal and Infinite Consciousness called Brahman. Brahman...
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 CommentsThe following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by DailyO For 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...
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...
