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Shiva Ratri: Waking Up to your Immortal Self

Look to your true Self beyond body and mind that are but your instruments of expression in the manifest worlds. Whatever you see is but a reflection of the power of Shiva! Lord Shiva is the supreme...

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Shiva and Shakti Yogas

Yoga means unification, which is first the unity of all the dualities and contraries that constitute the energies of life. Yoga philosophy teaches us to understand and transcend duality, but this rests...

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Your true self, Vedanta and modern psychology

The following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by Zee News Modern psychology suffers from gaps, which the teachings of Vedanta address at a fundamental level. We live in an age of...

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The Meaning Of Durga

No country in the world demonstrates such enduring reverence for the Great Mother Goddess, as does India. The Goddess is celebrated in every form, aspect and quality, through music, art, ritual, mantra...

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Discovering the Secret Power of Hanuman

  Hanuman endows us with the Atma-Shakti or self-power to realize our highest potential and accomplish what is magical. Hanuman is the great hero of the Ramayana, the wonderful story’s most fascinating...

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Vedic Counseling and Karmic Counseling

Karmic Reckoning: Taking Control of Your Life Counseling revolves around examining what we are doing in life and learning to make our actions more effective. To improve our efficiency we may observe...

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Our Journey through the Lokas: the Many Layers and Dimensions of the...

Vedic knowledge addresses the cosmos as a whole along with the depths of our own psyche, which it regards as one – the unity of macrocosm and microcosm. The individual human being is a model of or...

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The Purusha, the Real Person within You

The Complexity of our Physical Existence   If you carefully examine your life, you can easily observe that our human existence is complicated, many sided, with numerous subtle connections both within...

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Suffering and Awakening

  It is not necessarily sad that we suffer, that we experience pain, disease or death, which are part of life. The real sadness is that we have lost consciousness of our true nature in which we can...

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Guru Purnima: Spreading the message of India’s gurus

  The Guru has been one of India’s main exports to the world, with many traveling to teach and inspire millions around the globe. Now it is time for India as a country to take a more conscious role as...

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How to Cope with the Digital Age with Yoga and Ayurveda for the Mind

Are You Addicted to the Digital Drug? Most of us spend several hours on the day relative to a computer, tablet or smart phone. Though often necessary for our work, it creates tension, depletes the mind...

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How India can establish Ram Rajya today

Let us embrace the cause of Dharma on earth and give up the conflict and duality caused by adharma Sri Rama is the ideal ruler whose image has dominated the long history of India from the earliest era....

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Anxiety and its Treatment through Yoga and Ayurveda

Anxiety is almost epidemic in the modern higher tech world, though it is a long standing human problem. Anxiety is largely Vata Dosha disorder in Ayurvedic medicine, a problem that arises from an...

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The Expansion of Ayurveda and Yoga: Their Value for India and the World

By Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) Ayurveda is the natural healing system of India and its civilizational field of influence going back to Vedic times several thousand years ago. Ayurveda is one...

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Diwali and Rama Rajya

Diwali celebrates the return of Sri Rama to Ayodhya after fourteen years of exile. This follows immediately after Rama’s great victory over Ravana and his recovery of his beloved wife Sita. As such,...

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2020 and its Dangers for Humanity

Many of us are looking with deep concern about the current state of the world and what 2020 will bring. The division and conflict on every continent is easy to see, but how to reduce it remains...

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Collective Karma and Vedic Astrology

  We are all affected by collective karma, which has powerful trends that strongly impact us at personal and psychological levels as well as in our outer lives. Collective karmic disturbances affect...

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Ketu: The Most Mysterious and Powerful of Planetary Influences

Ketu represents the subtle energies that allow us to either transcend our karma or have to face the most powerful and dangerous karmas within us, either individually or collectively. We are facing a...

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The Purusha, the Real Person within You

The Complexity of our Physical Existence   If you carefully examine your life, you can easily observe that our human existence is complicated, many sided, with numerous subtle connections both within...

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Guru Purnima: Spreading the message of India’s gurus

  The Guru has been one of India’s main exports to the world, with many traveling to teach and inspire millions around the globe. Now it is time for India as a country to take a more conscious role as...

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