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The Importance of Kshatriya Dharma
Where Brahma (spiritual power) and Kshatra (worldly power) move together, may I know that sacred world where the Gods move together with Agni (the sacred fire). Shukla Yajur Veda 20.25 The ancient Vedic seers provided different...
The Vedic Yoga and Yoga as a Whole
Yoga in this broader sense as spiritual practice has five basic types. 1)Â Â Â Â Â Jnana Yoga, the Yoga of Knowledge, using meditation for Self-realization 2)Â Â Â Â Â Bhakti Yoga, the Yoga of Devotion, seeking union with God...
The Vedic Basis of Classical Yoga
The traditional founder of Yoga Darshana or the ‘Yoga system of philosophy’ – which the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali represents – is usually said to be Hiranyagarbha. It is nowhere in classical Yoga literature said to be Pa...
History of Asana and Exercise in India
This has led some people to think that the active asana approaches and movements, such as practiced by many modern Yoga groups, were not part of the older Yoga traditions or were not known in India. It has also gotten some to h...
Vedic Dawn : The Spiritual Reawakening
 The subcontinent of India is a vast geographical region that has developed its own unique and yet very diverse culture over the past ten thousand years or more. These developments in India have been aided by the development ...
The Four Vedas
The Vedas present the broader system of Self and cosmic knowledge of which yoga and Ayurveda are specific manifestations. Both Ayurveda and yoga arose as Vedic schools, taught by lineages of Vedic seers, projecting Vedic knowle...
The Six Schools of Vedic Insight
The Six Schools of Vedic Insight Out of the Vedas arose six schools of philosophy, shad darshanas, which literally means six ways of seeing or insight. These were designed to show the logical, metaphysical and cosmological impl...
Ayurveda and Vedas/ Upavedas
Ayurveda and Vedas/ Upavedas The Upavedas supplement the Vedas with more specific applications of Vedic teachings into the cultural field. Ayurveda arose as a secondary Veda or Upaveda generally connected with the Atharva Veda....
The Vedangas/ Jyotish
The Vedangas/ Jyotish There are six Vedangas or limbs of the Vedas. These are closer to the Vedas than the Upavedas, being part of the Vedas themselves, the main tools used to interpret them. 1. Jyotish — astrology 2. Kalpa â...
