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Posted by Rick Roux on February 2, 2010 at 10:53pm

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Kriya Yoga

Posted by Yogacharya Tapan Bose on February 2, 2010 at 2:07pm

Kriya YogaKriya Yoga develops socio - economic condition of the practitioners.Kriya Yoga: Kriya Yoga is a Science of Body, Mind & Spirit. It contains a few techniques, which are very ancient, secret and scientific. This Yoga gives simultaneous development of our body, mind and soul i.e. spirit. The very moment we start practising Kriya Yoga, we can easily and instantly elevate ourselves physically, mentally, morally, intellectually and spiritually.Age Bar: There are no age restrictions for pract

cause of suffering

Posted by Dr.Varun Suthra on January 26, 2010 at 5:46pm

ayurveda gives us a wonderful reason for cause of our sufferings , its termed pragyapradha if any1 is intrested to know the explanation can write 2 me

2010... YES!!!

Posted by Solvei Kristin McKenna on January 19, 2010 at 4:04pm

Hello my beautiful souls!Happy new year (a little late, but better late than never), and let me assure you, this year is going to bring much encouragement, hope, forward motion, drive, positivity and you will need all your strength, your health, your positivity, to move with the flow of this AMAZING year.The "stuck" energy of 2009 is over ~ full blast forward.Let us together now, make a decision to be kind, to be helpful to others, to trust that we are enough, we have enough, and that we know en

Review from Patimat Guseynova Sharuhanova artist. Russia, Dagestan 21-3-2015

Posted by Shefqet Avdush Emini on January 17, 2010 at 1:30am

This review is translate with google

Is not the creator who is able to give life ....

Acrylic painting on cnvas

Size: 116 x 200

Year: 2013

Acrylic painting on cnvas

Size: 116 x 200

Year: 2013

Strolling through the expanses of the Internet, I came across a magnificent Dutch expressionist Shefqet Avdush Emini. Later, I was fortunate to get to know him and work for international ART-symposia.

Expression in color, line, and at the same time, a sense of proportion and harmony - it works like live his own lif

Sanatana-Dharma

Posted by Kati Kalipriya Cato on January 16, 2010 at 12:31pm

Sanatana-Dharma: Its Real MeaningBy Stephen KnappWhen it comes to understanding the meaning of Sanatana-dharma, we have to be aware of its Sanskrit definition. The root of the word dharma comes from dhri, which means to uphold or maintain. The Sanskrit says dharayati iti dharmaha, which translates as dharma is that which upholds. However, not only what is supported is dharma, but that which does the supporting is also dharma, dhriyate iti dharmaha. So dharma consists of both the force that susta

Iyengar yoga Center in houston

Posted by iyengar yoga on January 15, 2010 at 7:25am

Houston Iyengar Yoga is directed by Pauline Schloesser. Pauline is a dedicated Iyengar yoga instructor and teacher. Pauline teaches at Studio A of the Heights School of Yoga, Houston Texas.

Learn about Iyengar Yoga.Iyengar yoga, one of the world's most widely-practiced methods, emphasizes correct alignment of all parts of the body within each yoga posture. This precision builds strength and stamina--balance and flexibility--and a new sense of well-being.

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21 things to remember

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 3, 2010 at 1:21pm

* No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission. * Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be * Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently. * Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have. * Success stops when you do. * When your ship comes in.... make sure you are willing to unload it. * You will never have it all together. * Life is a journey...not a destination. Enjoy the trip! * The biggest lie on the planet When I get what I

Discovering The Ego - New Year's Message by Swami Venkateshananda

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:33am

Anything that is done in accordance with the dictates of the mind is a trap. So even the so-called Yogic or spiritual practices undertaken through the incentive of the mind can at best be a golden trap, a prison. The intelligence within has to realise this. It is capable of this, though it cannot get out of it. ‘I’ cannot liberate itself, but it can see the defect in all these practices, the danger in this trap. If you are doing Karma-yoga it is glorified social service—which is very good as far

Purposefully Direct the Power Potential Within - New Year's Message by Swami Chidananda

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:32am

Worshipful homage to the supreme, eternal, infinite Cosmic Spirit Divine. Worshipful homage to the supreme Cosmic Power of the Divine which is both a transcendental divine force and the first manifestation of the Unmanifest. Therefore, it is different from the Unmanifest, but at the same time integrally one with the Unmanifest. Because the supreme, ultimate, transcendental Reality is one alone and non-dual, ekameva’ dvitiyam, there cannot be any question of manifestation being apart from It, bec

NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE - by Swami Krishnananda

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:32am

The New Year is approaching, time passes. The passage which is known as temporal is also the process of the evolution of the universe. There is a progressive march of the constituent elements of things in the passage of the time process. When a particular specialised occasion arises in this progression of the time process, we call that particular event or occasion by a designation as a 'New Year Day', a 'birthday', a 'holiday', an 'occasion of celebration' and some such nomenclature. There are p

NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE - by Swami Sivananda

Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:30am

By the command of the Indestructible Being, minutes, hours, days and nights, stand apart. By the command of the Immortal Brahman, months, years, seasons and solstices stand apart. He who knows this Indestructible Being is a liberated sage or Jivanmukta. Time rolls on. New becomes old and old becomes new again. Today is the most auspicious New Year's Day. God has given you another chance this year to enable you to strive for your salvation. Today man is. Tomorrow he is not. Therefore avail yours

What is music? Has it got any power to soothe the aching mind?

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 31, 2009 at 6:00pm

Music is a system of harmonious, melodious and rhythmic sounds capable of producinginner peace and an inexpressible thrill of joy. Music is one of the sciences which deal with Nada(Sabda) which is the first vibration of Brahman represented by the Pranava - Om. All the SaptaSvaras - Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni - which evolved themselves later into the various vocalsounds first originated out of this fundamental Om, symbolic of Brahman. Music is one of thefine arts or Lalita Kalas. Yes. It has got

Happy New Year

Posted by Yoga Vidya on December 31, 2009 at 3:01pm

Blessed self, Om Namo Narayanaya.Om namo Bhagavate |Vasudevaya. Om NMO bHgavate Sivanandaya. Loving New Year Greetings! Enjoy the beauty and forms of the Divine in many forms of nature! May this New Year bring you beautiful presence and Peace of the Divine! May Hia Grace be ever upon you is my prayer!!! With respects & regards, Yours,in the service of Gurudev, SwamiYogaswarupananda (We received this New Year's Message via Email. Swami Yogaswarupananda is a Yoga Master in Sivananda Ashram Rish

Does the soul take a new body in one year? Does it take ten years? How long does one live upon the subtler planes before reappearing on the earth plane?

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 30, 2009 at 6:00pm

There is no definite period of time in this matter. In main, two factors decide this issue,viz., the nature of the individual Karma and the last impression before death. It may vary fromhundreds of years to a few months even. Those that work out some of their Karmas in otherplanes in subtler regions take a considerable time before entering a fresh body. The interval isvery long, for a year of the earth period passes off as a single day on the celestial plane. There isan instance cited where, see

Politics has become the God of the day and is more so in India. Religion has come to be regarded as a superfluous thing. How then is it possible to make everyone believe in God and religion?

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 29, 2009 at 6:00pm

It is wrong to regard that politics has got some of those very people had fashioned thoseprecedence over religion. In personal life, the majority of mankind does believe in God; and inIndia, there is undercurrent of religion throughout the land. Politics is only a surface activitythrust upon most people due to socio-economic forces.When one gets knocks and blows, when he gets disgusted with the sensual objects onaccount of their impermanency, when he gets experience and discrimination and dispas

I read your writings in “My Magazine”: “Woman is only a rotten leather bag containing urine, pus, wool, blood, etc....

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 28, 2009 at 6:00pm

” How can we condemn and deprecate womankind? I think that there is nothing unholy in this universe.Too much study and a little practice bring bewilderment. To induce Vairagya in thepassionate people, I place such a negative mental picture of women. Really, women aremanifestations of Sakti. Yes, all is holy. All is sacred. All is beautiful. This can be realized andfelt only by people advanced in the spiritual line. Beginners can merely repeat these formulaslike a parrot. Their experience, Drisht

How does a person feel when he severs, all of a sudden, all relationships with this mundane world for embracing Sannyas?

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 27, 2009 at 6:00pm

When there is a true spirit of Tyaga in any, there can never be any idea of the oldimpressions of the world or of past relations with mundane existence. Even if the personembraces Sannyas without the indispensable Vairagya, he need not necessarily feel for the lossthat he sustains, though the latent Vasanas, Vrittis and Samskaras still lie embedded in his mentalconsciousness. A true Sannyasi enjoys the utmost bliss when he cuts asunder all connectionswith the world.From "May I answer that" by Sw

The Lord’s Mission - Life and Teachings of Lord Jesus

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 27, 2009 at 12:30pm

On one Sabbath Day at Nazareth, Lord Jesus claimed for Himself the fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon Me because he has anointed Me to preach, to heal and to set at liberty.” This greatly enraged the congregation at the synagogue. Though the Lord had been recognised as the Son of God, as a Prophet, and as the Light of the World, by others, to the people of Nazareth, Jesus was but the son of a carpenter! These unfortunate people drove Jesus out of Nazareth. Said

Does a full-fledged Yogi not feel tempted to test his Yogic powers? Is such testing justified?

Posted by Teachings of Swami Sivananda on December 26, 2009 at 6:00pm

A full-fledged Yogi can never have the idea either to test himself or his powers. If suchbe the case, he should in no way be considered full-fledged or well-baked. It is only the raw, theill-expanded and half-baked Sadhaks or Yogins that will have the inclination to test their ownselves, i.e., their progress, by virtue of the powers they might have acquired.Yogic powers cannot but manifest in proportion to the amount of progress one makes inYoga as per the injunctions laid down in the Yoga Sastr

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Kerala Ayurveda Academy

Kriya Yoga

cause of suffering

2010... YES!!!

Review from Patimat Guseynova Sharuhanova artist. Russia, Dagestan 21-3-2015

Sanatana-Dharma

Iyengar yoga Center in houston

21 things to remember

Discovering The Ego - New Year's Message by Swami Venkateshananda

Purposefully Direct the Power Potential Within - New Year's Message by Swami Chidananda

NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE - by Swami Krishnananda

NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE - by Swami Sivananda

What is music? Has it got any power to soothe the aching mind?

Happy New Year

Does the soul take a new body in one year? Does it take ten years? How long does one live upon the subtler planes before reappearing on the earth plane?

Politics has become the God of the day and is more so in India. Religion has come to be regarded as a superfluous thing. How then is it possible to make everyone believe in God and religion?

I read your writings in “My Magazine”: “Woman is only a rotten leather bag containing urine, pus, wool, blood, etc....

How does a person feel when he severs, all of a sudden, all relationships with this mundane world for embracing Sannyas?

The Lord’s Mission - Life and Teachings of Lord Jesus

Does a full-fledged Yogi not feel tempted to test his Yogic powers? Is such testing justified?

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