Understanding
one's breath
opens up so many
channels of growth
and evolvement
Breathing is life, but how little we know about it! For example, do you know that you use only one nostril at a time for breathing? At any point in time, either the right or the left nostril will be working. Test it out now. Place a finger half an inch below your left nostril for a few seconds and then under your right. You will now which one is working at that moment. Amazing, isn’t it?
Gurumaa narrated this story to a group of people and asked them to meditate on it. They were then told to explain what they had understood. After a short silence, one by one they narrated their individual response. Please write in with your views on this story so that we may put all the responses together and present them to you in our next issue.
After winning several archery contests, a young and rather boastful champion challenged a Zen master renowned for his skill in archery
In India it is a normal practice to marry off a girl at the very young age of 20-25yrs. And it is also seen that girls just drop their education mid-way, as soon as they get married; marriage is seen as the only purpose of educating girls! But what is the guarantee that your husband will always be there with you? What if he dies before you?
Just think! What are the expectations from a devi: You should be a giver; you should sacrifice
Have you ever seen a dry leaf falling down from the tree? No one pulls the leaf; no one asks it to come down. Leaf is not making any conscious effort to fall down. But by just being with that branch one day it starts getting dried up. Leaf is attached to the branch but slowly the juice flowing in the leaf starts drying up, and gradually the color of leaf changes, and one day it simply falls down.
Protein is a vital nutrient, essential to your health. In its purest form, protein consists of chains of amino acids. There are 22 amino acids that combine to form different proteins, and 8 of these must come from the foods we eat.
Excess or lack of protein and carbohydrates is not good for the body, so watch out for the amount of these nutrients you take daily
The problem is not work or work related stress, rather it is your habit of remaining in stress, cultivating stress. And you have nurtured this habit to an extent that even if you are in paradise, you will convert it into a hell; you will remain in stress and more stress even in paradise. So, you have to change your way of thinking. The important question is: what is your approach to the work you are doing? In reality, work has nothing to do with your stress. You can work twenty-four hours and never ever feel any stress.
Sri Krishna in Bhagavad Geeta says: ‘Action is life and no one can remain without action.’
Massage is a wonderful technique which employs skillful touch to relax both bodyand mind. It is a unique way of
communicating without words; a healing art, which relieves pain and suffering
What is our first reaction when we hurt or bruise ourselves? Our hands automatically go to
agni means fire, and agni sara is
a practice in which the internal
fire is stoked, helping to heat up
the body from within in order to
stimulate digestion and detoxify
the bodily systems
The benefits of Agni Sara are incredible – increased circulation to abdominal muscles, tissues and organs
Treat the body as the truest temple of the lord;
keeping it healthy is the foremost duty of every
human being. Eat to live - don't live to eat. The
vedas says 'Annam Brahman'. It means, consider
food as god and eat as if a great ritual is being
performed to appease god. Respect your body
and worship it by doing yoga asana
Yoga treats the mind and body as one. It treats man as a single entity and believes that
'Daughter of the Mountain,' Parvati Devi is the primary personification of Shakti Herself. Her consort is Shiva; Her children are Ganesh and Skanda, but in fact she is the mother of all gods and goddesses, of all humanity and of creation itself. Being Shakti's 'base form,' Parvati manifests her wrath as Durga and Kali; and her benevolence as Lakshmi and Saraswati. She is every other goddess as well; when we worship any goddess, or for that matter even any god, we ultimately worship her.
Parvati and shiva’s marriage is a happy and full of blissful companionship.
Ying and Yang make the whole energy.
So, do not miss the other part of life.
I think every human being should have
this experience;
being in this world, being with the
counterpart,
and then living this life as a heaven
Jessy Randhawa, a well known name in the modelling arena.
WE ALL NEED TO RECOGNIZE WE ARE THE ENERGY THAT
DRIVES THE MOTOR, WE ARE NOT THE MOTOR. WE ARE THE
ENERGY THAT FEEDS THE MIND, WE ARE NOT THE MIND. WE
ARE THE ENERGY THAT FEEDS THE THOUGHTS, WE ARE NOT
THE THOUGHTS. WE TAKE A RIDE ON THE CAROUSEL OF
LIFE, BUT WE MUST REMEMBER NOT TO GO ROUND SO FAST
OR IT WILL MAKE US SICK AND DIZZY
people need to understand who they are and the reason why they exist else they will get more and more lost…
As one practices awareness, one by one the thoughts unravel and very slowly one begins to understand the whole drama played out by the complexities of the mind
What do you want O mind. What are you looking for? If you have a little clarity the answer will be right in front of your eyes
We know about the mind and its hunger. We count the titillations and the material achievements, but what about the one who is a silent witness to all the flimsiness, the wanderings of the mind, the ego trips and the physical sensations? We never ever wonder about the one who is the master of the body, the senses, the mind and the intellect.
Who are you?
What are you?
Where are you?
seek… find… discover… THE REAL YOU
See how the anger is operating. See what it is doing to your mind and how.When faced by an anger causing action, immediately get into the mode of exploring and rationalizing with the "whys" and "more whys".
Yogis understand anger as an energy existing, like all emotions, half- way between a physical & mental experience.
The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine for all diseases Just for today, do not be angry Do not worry; be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work.
Be kind to people Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer Pray these words to your heart Chant these words.
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing
Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? There are simple things you can do to bring your attention to the here and now. You can measure your success in this practice by the degree of peace that you feel within
Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there?
Karma is the law of moral causation. The theory of Karma is a fundamental doctrine in Buddhism. This belief was prevalent in India before the advent of the Buddha. Nevertheless, it was the Buddha who explained and formulated this doctrine in the complete form in which we have it today
Karma includes all that comes under the phrase “thought, word & deed”
The same atoms and molecules of air, the breath that Jesus breathed, Moses breathed, Buddha breathed, that same breath is flowing
into you... right now!
In the beginning, we are told, “was the word”, but behind the word is an even greater power: the breath
Although, nutrition is an important component of human development at every stage of life, its focus changes with age. This is more relevant for women for they undergo many physical, biological and psychological changes as they age.
The very nature of a woman is strength and compassion and the essence of her being
The cause of our problems is not the mis-alignment of the building, rather we are attracted to a particular building because it resonates our own mis-alignment!
Authentic feng shui is based on Taoist principles, the root of which is learning to “Go with the Flow”.
The teacher is trying to teach all the children so that slowly
they understand and learn the alphabet. Similarly,
when it comes to religion, you start from somewhere.
So for someone the journey begins from a temple,
for others from a mosque and for yet others from a church
I read the story of a man who was looking for a guru. He saw an ascetic sitting under a tree and went close to him. “Can you tell me who is the best guru
O Allah! if I worship you for fear of hell
Burn me in hell
If I worship you in hope of paradise
Exclude me from paradise
But if I worship you for your own sake
Grudge me not your everlasting beauty
When asked by Sheikh Hasan-al-Basri how she discovered the secret, she responded: “You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.”
Lalleshwari was a great poet-saint of Kashmir. Her life is shrouded in mystery, miracle and legend - and much of what we know of her is through the oral tradition. 'Lalla Vakyani' (1920) by Sir George Abraham Grierson and Lionel D. Barnett Litt. D., is the only scholarly work on the subject to date. The earliest recorded mention of Lalleshwari is in 'Asrar-ul-Abrar' by Baba Dawud Mishtaki written in 1654. Sanskrit documents dated earlier do not mention her at all, neither is there any mention of her in Kalhan's Rajtaringini, or in any other chronicle till 1746 - may be because these were records of political events and not of social history.
Some leave their home, some the hermitage but the restless mind knows no rest so watch your breath, day and night and stay where you are.
A German Catholic mystic On March 5, 1926, the first Friday of Lent, the first stigmata or sacred wounds of Christ appeared slightly above her heart. She kept it secret, confident it would be healed. This wound is believed to represent the spot where Longinus speared Jesus Christ while on the cross.
one of the most fascinating modern day catholic mystic and stigmatic – was born on April 8th 1898 in Northern Bavaria, Germany
