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YAMA AND NIYAMA
Timeless legacyPranayam is about understanding the pran, cosmic energy, that sustains life. When you inhale, it is not just air entering your body but the...- Focus on the breathDifferent ancient cultures have varying interpretations of focused breathing. In Hatha Yoga, it involves forcefully holding one's breath, s...
- Attaining samadhiYog Samadhi, states of consciousness, Maharshi Patanjali's Yog Sutras, Dharana, Dhyan, Pratyahar, Yamas, Niyamas, and regulated breathing a...
- Is Yoga about achievement or awareness?In the West, yoga is marketed as an achievement: the achievement of a particular body posture and a body type, which demands constant measu...
- How to control mood disordersMood variations in accordance with the environment proportionally are normal but when behavioural patterns are disproportionate, they are c...
- Muzzle guzzle!It was Socrates who hinted at the dissatisfaction that propels gluttony, which St Aquinas also described as “an inordinate desire that defi...
- Finest art in practiceBhukti - these all are accepted axioms. But then, how to actually get to this state?
- Yogi Cameron: A super role model for yoga and ayurvedaSome of the best news loosed on Indian-Americans looking to ‘take back’ yoga and ayurveda from the West has to be the emergence of Yogi Cam...
- Fearless mind, ageless bodyI can’t die,” Jack LaLanne used to say. “It would ruin my image.” Alas, barely four years short of a century, the nonagenarian fitness guru...
- Steps to victory over oneselfObservances such as Patanjali’s yama and niyama, including hygiene and cleanliness (extending also to the mind), satsang, right hobbies, fr...
- Those under your direct controlJoyful actions set up the new-found virtuous cycle of such actions even altering the chemistry of the psychosomatic system.
- Survival of the fittestIn his Sutras, Patanjali sets forth Yama and Niyama as the first and second of the eight limbs of yoga. The ethical precepts are the founda...
- Atmasuddhi for modern timesSadly, particular concepts, phrases and quotes originating from religious texts or scriptures are frowned upon by those who profess a ‘mode...
- Dynamics within and true changeBeing born to a new life and a new world is prompted always by changes within, which are often very subtle and delicate, involving not just...
- First things first, for right resultsThe stanza in the Bible (Mathew: 6,31) is strikingly similar to one in Bhagawad Gita (2,48). Both exhort the aspirant to first establish hi...
- The power of right conductWe are the wisest of creatures. But alas it’s often always in hindsight. Until he died of a stroke at the age of 64, for example, more than...
- Rewards of true spiritualityWhenever the seeker takes up any exercise in personality development, including any specific spiritual or meditative technique, he should b...
- Honesty is indeed the best policyBenjamin Franklin's observation that “vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden but are forbidden because they are hurtful...
- Worthwhile living: Faith with worksSumming up various issues on worthwhile living, as dealt with in greater detail earlier in these columns, certain particular aspects would ...
- Yoga is made in India! PeriodWTO agreement says that cultural heritage, medicinal plants of a country are out of the purview of patenting.
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