Sage Patanjali brought awareness of the five koshas – annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijnanamaya and anandamaya. Annamaya or physical body is basically matter and it is built with food that is ingested through the mouth. Pranamaya kosha is energy body and is...
Brahmacharya is the path where one rises from body consciousness to a higher consciousness. As he does, his interest in the pleasures and needs of the physical body diminish. Instead, his mind-attention-interests graduate to serving ‘others’ or creativity, bhakti or...
One of the very special effects of combining adhyatmic activities like yoga, pranayama, chanting etc is that the Nadis get beautifully cleansed over time. Once the cleansing has happened, the Nadis, esp the sushumna becomes extremely responsive to vibrations....
One of the biggest problems in most relationships is that one tends to view them in absolute terms – when we ‘like’ someone, we assume they are near-perfect and beyond reproach. Conversely, when we don’t like someone, we believe them to be...
That little muscle at the base of the human trunk that has been decided and badmouthed more than any other part of the human anatomy probably has more power to impact your destiny more than almost any other part… That little muscle and its surrounding muscle...