In the West, yoga is marketed as an achievement: the achievement of a particular body posture and a body type, which demands constant measu...

Mood variations in accordance with the environment proportionally are normal but when behavioural patterns are disproportionate, they are c...

It was Socrates who hinted at the dissatisfaction that propels gluttony, which St Aquinas also described as “an inordinate desire that defi...

Bhukti - these all are accepted axioms. But then, how to actually get to this state?

Some 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...

I 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...

Observances such as Patanjali’s yama and niyama, including hygiene and cleanliness (extending also to the mind), satsang, right hobbies, fr...

Joyful actions set up the new-found virtuous cycle of such actions even altering the chemistry of the psychosomatic system.

In 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...

Sadly, particular concepts, phrases and quotes originating from religious texts or scriptures are frowned upon by those who profess a ‘mode...

Being 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...

The 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...

We 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...

Whenever the seeker takes up any exercise in personality development, including any specific spiritual or meditative technique, he should b...

Benjamin Franklin's observation that “vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden but are forbidden because they are hurtful...

Summing up various issues on worthwhile living, as dealt with in greater detail earlier in these columns, certain particular aspects would ...

WTO agreement says that cultural heritage, medicinal plants of a country are out of the purview of patenting.