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Modern age self proclaimed gurus......... do you know, the disqualifications for this post? So how 1000's every day are becoming gurus?

Posted by Chandan Bandyopadhyay on June 9, 2010 at 12:37pm

*A list of disqualifications for a person intends to be a Guru:

*(As per ancient guru sutras)

Himsa (injury)	sinning	bad reputation	devious mind	cruelty (Krura)	selling gold
thieving	plagued with troubles and worries	bad character	adulterous	foul language	deformed
sensuous	deceiver	adharma	talkative	greedy	miserly
liar	hyperactive	lacks reverence	devoid of acaras	many blemishes	money-minded
Consumption (TB)	Skin disease	diseased nails	diseased teeth	deafness	cataract
bald	lame	deformed	extra body parts	conjunctivitis	halitosis
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yoga for corporate in gurgaon

Posted by Surender choudhary on June 9, 2010 at 12:01pm

Today's work environment is demanding, to say the least. The increasing pressure in the workplace and employees working longer hours lead to stress-related problems such as anxiety, depression, headaches, hypertension, back pain, insomnia and fatigue.Yogasanjeivni has started "Stress Mangement Programs" which tries to bring down the stress level via this program they try to enhance your memory power & increase the level of self confidence.Companies are beginning to realise that their employees n

yoga for women in gurgaon

Posted by Surender choudhary on June 9, 2010 at 12:00pm

In order to balance the work pressure, hormonal changes in body & self development, women need the help of yoga to keep themselves fit & fine a lot of working and housewife women have indulge themselves with yoga practices & felt drastic changes in there life. During pregnancy period it is necessary to do yoga cautiously & carefully. it reduces the level of stress from the body. Through the medium of fit & fine program from YOGA SANJIVANI women can take full advantages of yoga exercise.This yoga

Jnana and Bhakti are the Same

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on June 8, 2010 at 8:06pm

"The eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the Self in Jnana. To abide in the Self you must love the Self. Since God is verily the Self, love of the Self is love of God; and that is Bhakti. Jnana and Bhakti are thus one and the same." Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Thinking about Ishwara-pranidhana

Posted by Swami Saradananda on June 8, 2010 at 5:46pm

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Recently, I've been working with the principle of "ishwara-pranidhana". The last of Patanjali's niyamas is usually translated as "self-surrender" or "surrender to the Lord". This is a hard one for many modern yogis, many of whom don't seem to be inclined to surrender to anyone or any teaching.

You may feel that you do not relate to the concept of "God" — or that you do not really know who or what God is — or even whether God really exists. You may (understandably) be loath to commit to doing th

Sadhana is the main medicine for giving up “Being Self” (Ahankar)

Posted by Kriyananda Maharshi Dayananda on June 6, 2010 at 10:30am

Sadhana is the main medicine for giving up “Being Self” (Ahankar)Being “Self” or “Me” (Ahankar) looks a very small word yet it is very unhealthy for those who are in fact on the path of getting spiritual knowledge. It always comes in front of a Sadhak and obstacles to reach on the further stage. So a sadhak should always think these all kind of shortcomings and must try to give up gradually through sadhana.So until and unless a sadhak is pure (chaitanya) from his thoughts, words and deeds (Mann,

Discouraged

Posted by Sheila K. Dixon on June 4, 2010 at 8:32pm

Hello, I have just been certified as a yoga teacher at the 200-hour level. My certification is from a local studio. I chose them for convenience sake as they are less than a mile from my house and the structure agreed with my life right now. The training has been a real internal struggle for me. I have been practicing Sivananda yoga for twenty years and found that my understanding and experience of yoga is very different from that of my teachers. They seem to view asana practice as the whole of

Gatha for arriving home

Posted by ૐ Lakshmi Devi on June 4, 2010 at 1:34pm

Gatha for arriving home: I have arrived, I am home, in the here and now.I am solid, I am free. In the ultimate I dwell. My mind can go in athousand directions. Now I walk in peace. Each step a warm breeze.With each step, a lotus blooms.

Study in India

Posted by Stefano Notarbartolo on June 4, 2010 at 12:52pm

Namaste,

I am planning to spend at least one month in India to study and take a TTC, I am interested in both Yoga and Yoga Therapy, any suggestion? Anyone knows or had direct experience at the Yoga Institute in Santa Cruz, Mumbai?

Thank you in advance

Sadguru Swaroop

Posted by Kriyananda Maharshi Dayananda on June 3, 2010 at 11:26am

Appearance of a Sadgurudev.doc

Durga Puja or Navaratri

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on June 2, 2010 at 6:21pm

The festival of Navaratri ("nine nights”) is a worship of the divine mother Durga in several forms. Each night a puja is held, and there is chanting of the Navarna Mantra, "Om aim hreem kleem chaamundaayai viche namah". Durga also helps you to protect your spiritual practice from the distractions and pitfalls that you encounter regularly in worldly life. This link http://www.dlshq.org/religions/navaratri.htm is to Swami Sivananda's explanation of Durga Puja or Navaratri.

Yoga Question Site

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on June 2, 2010 at 6:01pm

There is a new Yoga question site being started up by Swami Atma. It is inthe excellent Q&A system from StackExchange, you can get there fromthis link http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1971/yoga. If you are interested you can go there, log in, becomea follower, and propose questions which would be appropriate and some which are not. This could be a great meeting point for yogis of all traditions around the world.

Songs of Mirabai

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on May 28, 2010 at 8:51pm

"Refuge in you, Dark One, you alone know how to save me. A girl possessed, I shamble through the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage but haven't the wit to know failure. Hear my cry, O Murari - nothing on earth looks like it's "mine". Mira gave you her trust, now it's your move. Spring her from this noose we call "world." " ~From "For the Love of the Dark One - Songs of Mirabai", trans. Schelling.

"Why life, why again, and what reason birth as a woman? Good deeds in former lives they say. But- growt

Asana cannot turn you as Yogi

Posted by Kriyananda Maharshi Dayananda on May 28, 2010 at 1:06pm

Asanas or physical excercises never turn a practitioner as "Yogi" otherwise all gymnasts and circus fellows of the world are best Yogi becausethey do all kind of physical excercise with a perfection and havea command over theri body. They have such elasticity in their bodymovement which we in genral can not think even but mind it they do nothave such Yogic Power and are not Yogi.

So you can think where you are?

Similarly, sitting with a close eye focussing at a provided point isnot Meditation. Med

Meditation posture described in the Bhagavad Gita 6.11-15

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on May 27, 2010 at 3:35pm

"In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, made of a cloth, a skin and Kusa-grass, one over the other.

“There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat, practice Yoga for the purification of the self. "

"Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck erect and still, gazing at the tip of his nose, without looking around.

"Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmacha

Bhagavad Gita 2.47-48

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on May 27, 2010 at 3:09pm

Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction. Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called Yoga.

Bhagavad Gita 12.18-20

Posted by Sita Chaitanya on May 27, 2010 at 12:20am

"He who is the same to foe and friend, and also in honor and dishonor,
who is the same in cold and heat and in pleasure and pain, who is free
from attachment, He to whom censure and praise are equal, who is
silent, content with anything, homeless, of a steady mind, and full of
devotion - that man is dear to Me. They verily who follow this immortal
Dharma as described above, endowed with faith, regarding Me as their
supreme goal, they, the devotees, are exceedingly dear to Me."

Audio Kirtan: Hari hari Bol

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on May 26, 2010 at 12:30pm

Mantra, Kirtan, Bhajan, Spiritual Chants
Mantra Audio: Hari hari Bol, chanted by Narayani in Yoga Vidya Ashram Germany. A Mantra in praise of Vishnu and Krishna.

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Divine Power or Guru Tatwa

Posted by Kriyananda Maharshi Dayananda on May 26, 2010 at 12:14pm

If you want to receive divine power the then you will have besurrendered totally with self less, with full of devotion and with fullof sewa bhao feeling in to the feet of Guru Charan and once you areblessed you will get all divine powers that is called guru tatwa. So ifone enters with such bhao (feelings) "Twadiom Vastu Nkhilam, Thubhmewom Samarpetya"

So, whatever the things are, is yours even my deeds, prana, soul, body,thoughts every things are yours are offered to you only. There isnothing min

Mantra Chanting

Posted by Kriyananda Maharshi Dayananda on May 26, 2010 at 7:52am

Taking Mantra from books and start chanting cannot be affective and itis worthless and waiting your valuable time, because books itselfcannot say its techniques and sound. Since, mantra is the main mediumto have blessing from Gods and the Gods and the Goddess arereside in mantra.So without knowing its actual techniques no one evencan feel its affect either good or bad. So technique is the "Tantra"through which one can fullfil his desire but to know the authentictantra only a real Sadguru can gui

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Modern age self proclaimed gurus......... do you know, the disqualifications for this post? So how 1000's every day are becoming gurus?

yoga for corporate in gurgaon

yoga for women in gurgaon

Jnana and Bhakti are the Same

"The eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the Self in Jnana. To abide in the Self you must love the Self. Since God is verily the Self, love of the Self is love of God; and that is Bhakti. Jnana and Bhakti are thus one and the same." Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Thinking about Ishwara-pranidhana

Sadhana is the main medicine for giving up “Being Self” (Ahankar)

Discouraged

Gatha for arriving home

Study in India

Sadguru Swaroop

Durga Puja or Navaratri

Yoga Question Site

Songs of Mirabai

"Why life, why again, and what reason birth as a woman? Good deeds in former lives they say. But- growt

Asana cannot turn you as Yogi

Meditation posture described in the Bhagavad Gita 6.11-15

Bhagavad Gita 2.47-48

Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction. Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called Yoga.

Bhagavad Gita 12.18-20

Audio Kirtan: Hari hari Bol

Divine Power or Guru Tatwa

Mantra Chanting

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