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There are a lot of people trying to understand the significance of the number 108. Often people will give a list of items that come in 108, but this doesn’t explain why 108 is sacred. A list gives no deeper understanding of why 108 is sacred, it only proves that people consider it sacred. As yogis and jyotishis, we need to understand the ‘why’ behind the principles of the ancient Rishis.

This article is published and copyrighted by the Jyotish Digest, Volume 4 Issue 2, New Delhi, 2005. The unq

Kali, Kali Mahakali, Adi Sakti Addya Sakti, Kripa Mahamaya, I owe thou art; my eternal mother, heavenly eternal love and bliss bless me with nirvikalpa Chetana, Dharana and sankalpa to be your niskalpa sadho. My beloved mother your name is sakara of praná, your sa-harsa name is the brahmo-Chetana of brahmanda. Oh! my beloved mother your name is the essence of jiva and a-jiva, bestow your eternal love to all.

100 Names of Maha Kali

Mahakali Jagadhatri (creator of the world)
Jaganmata ( mother of th

("Aurora Borealis" by Frederic Edwin Church)

I am a child
Of the Sky and the Stars
Loving and sweet as Venus
And fierce as Mars

I'm lucky as Jupiter
Each brand new day I
Bathe in a meteor shower
Under the Milky Way

Brothers and Sisters high
In a round of light
We paint the aurorae
On the canvas of the night

I am a child
Of the Sun and the Moon
I sustain the gull in flight
And soothe the crying loon

Porcupine petting - And
Rhinos meal at noon - Then it's
Off to the desert 'til the evening
Shift to shape the dunes

So many textbooks are available on meditation nowadays that everyone hassome idea of what it is all about. In brief, meditation is the most wonderful adventure: ‘Discovery of self’. Meditation enables us to enjoy consciously the peace, happiness and revitalisation that we unconsciously have in sleep. Meditation lifts us above the cares and anxieties of our daily life, it enables us to overcome our

Parama-Shiva

I. Universal Principles

1. Shiva (the Benevolent) - the masculine or consciousness aspect of the ultimate bipolar Reality.
2. Shakthi (Power) - the feminine or power aspect of the ultimate bipolar Reality, which polarizes Consciousness into “I” (aham) and this (idam) or subject and object, but without separating them dualistically.
3. Sadakhya (That which is named Being [sat] or Sada Shiva (Ever Benevolent - the transcendental will (iccha) that recognizes and affirms “I am this”, with the empha

EVERYONE IS TALKING about pranayam — doing it and recommending it the others. What then is so good about this ancient art of breathing?

Pranayam, sure you know, combines parana, standing for life or life-force, and yama, for law or regulation. Combining these two, the word encapsulates the concept of the law for governance of life-force.

What is life-force? Though a delving matter for the mystics, parana can be explained as the charge that drives every bit of the living beings — in just the same w

DO YOU MIND? Do I mind? Yes, we all do mind — isn’t so? So, let’s explore the mind.

Mind is the ultimate reservoir of life souvnirs or keepsakes. It reflects creation’s resonance, harmony and the constant flux of construction and obliteration. Mind is a contrivance of thought. It’s a dynamic processor that handles multiple reverberations of thought.

Mind doesn’t stimulate thought, but thought stimulates mind. A thought is a collective cluster of vibrations, which after being set as a cognizant, g

AS WE ALL know, intelligence is astuteness of an individual. But let us see what lies beneath the casual awareness about intelligence. Let us first find out the segregation of this portfolio of intelligence. I shall both amalgamate quantum biophysics and classical biophysics to bring out an easier picture of the term intelligence.

In quantum segregation we will find three kinds of intelligence- Causal Intelligence (CI), Astral Intelligence (AI) and Logical Intelligence (LI). Today we will only un

This unusual article by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh was originally published in Bhavan’s Journal in May of 1959

It would be easy to dismiss the question by saying: “Yes, after a prolonged period of intense austerities and meditation, while I was living in Swargashram, and when I had the darshan of a number of maharshis and their blessings, the Lord appeared before me in the form of Sri Krishna.”

But that would not be the whole truth, nor a sufficient answer to a question relating to God, who is i