Most sadhakas (aspirants, seekers) are looking for powerful experiences as validation in sadhana, as assurance that their sadhana is bearing fruit. While powerful experiences can be gratifying, they also inflate the ego. They lodge themselves in the sadhaka's memory becoming a dead burden, blocking further growth. Moreover, it is a question of ‘States’ versus ‘Stages’ as [...]
Chairpersons Note LESSONS LEARNT… 25 years ago, the guru had a searing vision of education to guide lives towards conscious living, learning, creating/expressing, praying… to value all cultural forms that helped the process. He envisioned it as the Sapta Bharati or 7 gurukuls dedicated to the 7 Indian sciences & arts of Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotisha Shastra, [...]
Indian art has been produced by professional craftsman…….. “In India the same qualities ervade all works, of any given period – from pottery to architecture, and all are equally expressive – the smallest fragment of a textile portrays the same as the most elaborate temple In other words, there are no distinctions of fine and applied [...]
My Spiritual Master His real teachings consisted of simple statements that he reiterated a million times a day as you sat, “ate chatted joked, went through daily chores like chopping vegetables travelled in crowded trains, tidied his room, narrated instances from your life and listened to those from his. Each one of these statements was a [...]
Food is the gift of God to all the creatures to appease hunger and thirst and give the energy required to support the activity of the body and mind. Food supports growth as well as acts as the seed for the decay, disease and death to set in. If mobility and consciousness are taken to be [...]
Of the various genres of North Indian classical music, that known as dhrupad is generally regarded, by musicians, listeners and scholars, as the ‘oldest’ ‘purest’, ‘serious’ most ‘demanding’, ‘highest’, most ‘sacred’, and above all perhaps, most ‘traditional’. It is also generally assumed to be extinct, or at best moribund. Indeed, faced with the burgeoning popularity of [...]
This is also one of the powerful systems of Yoga and it has its own philosophy. This philosophy says that he whole universe is formed out of Sabdabrahman. This, philosophy says that the entire process in this world have tarted by explosion (Sphota Siddhanta). The grammarians establish that the whole creation is a result of Sabda-Brahman [...]
This century has witnessed explosion of knowledge in every field of life. This is especially seen basic sciences and medicine. Progress in medical search was tremendous during last fifty years. So much so that is becoming impossible to keep pace with incoming information. This led to specialisation and super-specialisation. This form of medicine has definite advantages [...]
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 [...]
A time to stay awake through the night contemplating on the dualities of life of mortal desires and immortal bliss, earthly obligations and heavenly aspirations, material needs and spiritual demands. Why is the night of Shiva (Shiva-ratri) celebrated on the 13th or 14th night of the waning moon in every lunar cycle? Why is the Mah-Shiva-Ratri [...]
