Overview
India, one of the oldest living cultures in the world is also very rich and complex. India is home to immense cultural diversity and as such any program needs to circumscribe its scope. The Taste of India highlights spiritual ecological and artistic values of the culture. It also exposes the participant to rural life in India, indigenous cuisines, attire and lifestyles. It is an introduction to the beauty of Indian culture.
Programs
A Taste of India
Taste is an intimate and first- hand experience of things. By its very nature, it frees one from doubt, intellectualizing and abstract speculation & imaginnings. It is the only way to experience a living culture that has entered its stream of Consciousness through a world-view, philosophy, rituals, myths, arts, cuisines and life styles.
Designed especially for the urban citizen of the world, The Taste Of India programme is a window to vignettes from Indian culture to be relished & savoured in the authentic environs of the ashram.
Thoughts
Yoga could be explained as a way of life or rather the way in which the life could be lived. It is a process which emphasizes integration (from you to join, assemble, balance etc.) at every level of existence, every aspect of life be it social, personal, physical, emotional or intellectual. It increases the awareness of different dimensions of our existence, their mutual dependence and mutual influence and the various factors which lead to disharmony in their functioning, ultimately causing disintegration, fragmentation.
Thus Yoga makes us aware of our state of fragmentation at every level and the factors responsible for this fragmentation and the way to overcome this fragmentation and shows us the way of living in the most integrated way…
Calligraphy means beautiful writing. The word calligraphy is combination of two words from the Greek language. “Kallos” means beauty and “Graphein” meaning to write. Thus the simple definition of calligraphy such as the “art of fine handwriting”. “Handwriting as an art” eflects the aesthetic concern and the be4utiful aspect of hand written expression. Written expression would necessarily need a writing system. One of the writing systems, which we commonly use, is the concept of “language”. The writing system at the linguistic feel is concerned about “content” relation, a system (such as Hindi or Tibetan language) meant to communicate• massages wherein signs operate within a social context with phonetic and graphic values attached to each sign. Such linguistic approach is characterised especially by verbal systems (such as speech, poetry, literature etc.) along with phonetic values. These are further linked and associated with written systems (scripts)…