Vedic Origins of Yoga: Shvetasvatara, the Vedic Yoga Upanishad
[contextly_sidebar id=”W0wAHjx4633E2jb5Qkc7QggM0W4oMS6L”] In order to provide a better sense of how the Vedic Yoga relates to later classical Yoga, let us look to one of the most important older Upanishads, More...
History of Asana and Exercise in India
In the following article, we will examine the origins of the asana side of Yoga in India, including relative to Vedic teachings. Asana is the aspect of Yoga least detailed in older Vedic and Yogic texts and is the More...
Agni and the Fire of Self-Inquiry
Self-inquiry (Atma-vichara), such as taught by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, is regarded as the simplest and most direct path to Self-realization. However, Self-inquiry is also very subtle and can be hard to accomplish More...
India’s Export of Yoga – Import of Fundamentalism and Terrorism
India’s balance of trade in terms of religion and spirituality is quite interesting and worthy of note. I am not speaking of economics here but the trade of ideologies and belief systems. While India exports its More...
Veda and Yoga are One
Veda, from the root “vid” to know, refers to Knowledge in the highest sense as direct perception of the Eternal and Infinite Consciousness called Brahman. Brahman is present as the Atman or inner Self of all More...
Sanskritization: A New Model of Language Development
The Current Indo-European Model: The Migration of the Proto-Indo-Europeans The primary model used today for explaining the close relationships that exist between Indo-European languages is a migration theory. It More...
Why Varna is Not Caste
The Four Varna system of ancient India was originally based upon the idea of an organic social order that remains relevant today. What is called caste today should not be confused with it. The Vedas arose five thousand More...
Sitaram Goel: Modern India’s Greatest Intellectual Kshatriya
Sitaram Goel was one of India’s most important and original thinkers in the post-independence era. His writings are central to the Hindu awakening worldwide over recent decades that is now growing rapidly. While More...
Essential Facts of Sanatana Dharma
Sometimes people ask what Hinduism is, and how it compares with the other religious/spiritual traditions of the world. Most of the time Hindus find it difficult to provide simple and cogent answers to such questions, More...
Beyond Right and Left: Restoring India’s Dharmic School of Social Thought
India needs to return to its traditional dharmic approach to political thought in order to take the country out of the quagmire created by following western political ideologies contrary to its deeper civilizational More...