Ayurveda evolved from Atharva Veda and the Upanishads ( Atharva vedasu upanishadsu pragulpannah ). It is the Art of Being, the Science of Life. Ayur means Life and Veda means Knowledge. It is the oldest healthcare system in the world.
Who has not heard about Ayurveda ? So great is this Science of Life that almost all clincis, parlours and resorts have" Ayurvedic massage", "Ayurvedic Spa", " Ayurvedic treatments" etc attached to them. Despite its immense popularity, the concept of Ayurveda remains vague amidst all. The world's oldest health care system is Ayurveda. It is important for eveyone to have basic info about Ayurveda for his good health.\
What is Ayurveda? is a superb book by Dr Shashi Patwardan. One becomes familiar with the rudiments of Ayurveda. You become familiar with Home Remedies !
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Learn Yoga
Do you feel stressed out ? Millions feel so. There is no need to panic, as there is a technique to heal your mind and strengthen your body. The technique is Yoga. You many ask How ? With a combined strategy of yoga stretches and meditation. You can feel the stress melt away as you practise the ancient art of Yoga and Meditation to help bring your emotional well beinto into balance and keep your body fit at the same time. Yoga has natural healing properties that can alleviate the symptoms of most common ailments. " A Beginners Guide to Yoga and Meditation " is a gem from Dr Shashi Patwardhan. A must for the novice.
Dr Shashikant's " A Practical Guide to Yoga " breaks the mold of all the other Yoga instruction books you have heard and read aloud, presenting proven steps to help you achieve Self Actualisation.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Actualise Your Immense Potential
Do you know that your enemy is YOURSELF and it is a fight between You vs Yourself ? It is your negative thoughts which hold you back in life ! Do you want to change your negative set beliefs, eliminate all self limiting thoughts and free yourself from long held patterns of thinking which are holding you back in life ? Subminal MP3s are the answer. With these Subliminal Messages, you can do exactly this and you can program your mind to success. These are Subliminal Messages which can accelerate the Law of Attraction, boost confidence,increase motivation, improve concentration, learning and education, relationships, attract women, win friends and influence people, weight loss, social skills, overcome addictions, fitness and exercise, financial and business success, sexuality, subliminal language and learning, positivity, money mindset, personal development, relaxation, dreams and metaphysical, therapy, music and arts.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Transcendental Truth
Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem in Maths points out that Reality cannot be represented by any finite, symoblic structure and that it is transcendental ! Truth goes beyond the finite to Infinitude ! He has reached across the ages to the Seer Poets who proclaimed that the Infinite Reality can be experienced as I AM THAT !
The Absolute Self as Timeless & Spaceless Existence
There are definitions for Self, Non Self and the Discriminative Intellect in the First Science.
The Non Self is defined
Everything from the Macrocosm, the Universe
To everything in the Microcosm, Man !
All emotions, all thought processes,
Is called the Non Self, O Noble One !
The Discriminative Intellect is Prajna and it is defined thus
That which distinguishes the Real from the Unreal
That which recognises the Self ultimately
That which differentiates Being from Non Being
Such an intellect is Prajna, O Noble One !
The Self is defined thus
Attributeless, actionless, eternal
Devoid of thoughts, forms
Without emotions, without persona
Ever liberated is the Self Absolute !
These three definitions are the base of the First Science, the Philosophia Prima
Truth is Omnipresent !
We are Truth seekers, but Truth always eludes us. By Truth is meant Absolute Truth, Cosmic Truth, Universal Truth.
To some, Truthful existence is suffering. Somebody wrote
Truth on the scaffold
Wrong on the throne
We find that Truthful existence is painful and difficult. Truth always puts us in a controversial situation. Imagine the lifes of Socrates, Jesus, Bruno & Mansoor. They were martyred because of Truth.
But poets say Truth is omnipotent. Let us listen to Swinburne
Truth only is living
Truth only is Whole
His for only giving
Man's polestar and pole !
or Aurobindo
For Truth is wider, greater than her forms
A thousand icons they have made of her
And they find her in the idols they adore
But she remains herself and infinite !
or Gandhi
Truth will win ultimately.
In our search for Truth, may be we confuse perspective with Truth. Maybe what our enemies say about us may be true. Are they saying falsehoods ? Yes, Truth is wider !
Philosophically, Truth is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Truth is all this. It is only our Ego which prevent us from actualising Truth
The Hymn of Cosmic Consciousness !
In the void of Mind involute
The fleeting Universe rises and floats
And sinks back into the current " I "
wrote Vivekananda. Where only the Universal "I" is and nothing else is !
I am the Silence which is more than sound
If therewithin thou lose thee, thou art found!
The nameless, shoreless ocean which is "I"
Thou canst not breathe but in its bosom drowned !
wrote Tennyson.
Cosmic Consciousness is a state wherein there is Pure Awareness, Awareness of Being, Knowledge and Bliss !
Mythology is symbolic, never literal !
Carl Gustav Jung was a genius. He declared that all Mythology, including Christian Mythology, is symbolic and allegorical and not literal.
A disciple of Freud, Jung came across a fanstastic discovery. He was researching on the dreams of some of his patients. He wrote the figures seen by his patients and saw that they bear a close resemblance to the figures seen in Alchemy and Astrology.
He postulated that dreams are projections of the Unconscious.
He postulated that The Ocean of Reality resembles an ocean. The waves are the individual egos. Deep within the gross level is the subtle level. The subtle level of an individual ego he called the Personal Unconscious and the rock bottom of the Ocean of Reality is the Collective Unconscious, known as Brahman, the Absolute, in transcendental philosophy !
Henry David Thoreau
" In the early hours of the morning, I bathe in my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Geetha, before which the modern world appears puny & trivial."
Thoreau can be said to be Gandhi's Guru. It was Thoreau's book " The Civil Disobedience " which gave Gandhi the inspiration to launch the Non-violent Movement. It is said that Gandhi brought back from America what was fundamentally the philosophy of India, after it was baked in the mind of Thoreu !
His masterpiece ' The Walden" has 18 chapters, modelled after the 18 chapters of the Geetha and the 18 parvas of the Mahabharatha.
>He was truly the American Sage. Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau are the Trinity of American Transcendentalism !
His famous quote " When the law of the land is against the Law of Conscience, the best place for a man is jail " !
The Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Turning to the Inmost God is what is called " Vibhakthi ", or worshipping the Absolute Self, knowing that I am Thee ! Vibhakthi in Sanskrit corresponds to the Amor Intellectualis ( Intellectual Love ) of Bruno. We are One. Only through Vibhakthi, Intellectual Love, Amor Intellectualis can the world be saved !
Walt Whitman wrote
Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God
At Nature and her wonders, Space, Time & Death
Then I turn to Thee, O Actual Me,
Lo ! Thou gently mastereth the orbs,
Thou matest with Time, smilest content with Death
And fillest swellest the vastnesses of Space !
The great poet Melpathur also wrote about the Absolute Self thus
In reality I am Thyself
For me there is no binding
By Nature's triune attributes
Nor Salvation; as Nescience
It is that binds the Absolute Self !
The Individual Soul Thou art, all Thou art,
Thou art the Intelligence visible, Nature,
There is nothing in this visible Universe
Which is different from Thee !
Self Actualisation !
Kant's greatest achivement was that he found Space, Time and Causality are modes of thought, but Vedanta knew it long ago and called it Maya.
The Universe is seen as Mirror; I AM THE SELF !
Like when a sleeper wakens from the dream state !
This,they say,is the experience of Enlightenment
Which is only possible due to Master's Grace !
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