The answer I give generally depends on who is asking the question. For the more general crowd, I often say that Vedanta is the philosophical basis of Hinduism. That’s an answer that most people can accept, even if it’s not strictly accurate. First of all, Vedanta isn’t a philosophy....
Anyone who has a Yoga practice will find inspiration in the Yoga Sutras as these texts provide a very different perspective to the Yoga we know these days.
Know where you are: It is very useful to be aware of these stages, both in the moment, and as a general day-to-day level at which one is functioning. It reveals the depth of practice that one might be able to currently practice. Some aspect of yoga meditation applies to every human...
We have been hearing since a long, yoga is the union of body, mind & soul. Fromthis Ideal definition, we can know a lot about yoga asanas while keeping an eye on “body”. This is because “body” is the first tool we need in any asana practice. Physically, asana is about the ce...
3. Love as Sadhana The third kind of love—love as a practice—is the medicine for the terrible discrepancy we sometimes feel between our sense of what love can be and the actuality of our ordinary experience of it. The practice of love—actions and attitudes that create an atmosphere of ...
The romantic notion of being a travelling Yoga teacher has been a valuable and fabulously enjoyable journey so far. The next step on that long road is to deepen my knowledge and understanding through self-practice, as I travel. And then there was the nostalgic cycle back down memory lane. ...
is now teaching them with poetic clarity for the edification of the global Yoga community. Tompkins has found, universally across an expansive corpus of source texts, a common, innovative sadhana (practice) that, despite changing shape from one lineage to the next, is life-affirming, not life-...
Finger explains that kundalini energy is gently and gracefully released through regular, daily practice, known as sadhana in Sanskrit. “[Daily sadhana teaches people] “to get out of the mind and find passage to the soul, find Brahman or universal consciousness.” Practicing kundalini yoga is on...
Sutra III.24 is in Vibhuti Pada. Vibhuti is ash as a residue of Homa, a sacred fire. Symbolically, the ash is the residue of Tapas, intense practices laid out in Sadhana Pada, the second chapter. In this case the result is gaining moral strength by practicing Yamas and Niyamas. Physical...
This practice of adding minerals to herbal medicine is known as rasa shastra. In some cases, alcohol is used as a narcotic for the patient undergoing an operation. The advent of Islam introduced opium as a narcotic. Both oil and tar are used to stop bleeding. ...