Yogic Thought

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  • 63. Agni – the Ubiquitous Fire

    63. Agni – the Ubiquitous Fire

    So, how many fires are there?  The famous Rig veda starts and ends with a sukta for Agni! In a nutshell, since change is the nature of this universe, Agni is everywhere, in infinite forms, depending upon what needs to be converted from what to what.  For example, you want to dissolve away the past…

  • 62. Yoga, Creation and Gods: The Power of Prayer

    62. Yoga, Creation and Gods: The Power of Prayer

    What do yogis, the ancient rishis of yoga, think of Gods? Is there a God? Is it many Gods, 330 million gods, or just one God?  We will cover two famous suktas related to this at the end. If a human worships a deity thinking the deity is one and s/he is another, he does…

  • 57. purusha – the universal subjective

    ॐ sa̠hasra̍śīrṣā̠ puru̍ṣaḥ । sa̠ha̠srā̠kṣaḥ sa̠hasra̍pāt । sa bhūmi̍ṃ vi̠śvatō̍ vṛ̠tvā । atya̍tiṣṭhaddaśāṅgu̠lam ।। The puruṣa (Universal Subjective or Consciousness) has infinite heads, infinite eyes and infinite feet (sa̠hasra̍ here signifies innumerable), He (the universal being) seeds the creation from all sides, and extends beyond the ten directions (as represented by the ten fingers).   …

  • 53. Prāṇayāma – the Mind, and its Prāṇic nature

    prāṇá vai visve devʰáḥPrana is all “gods”[controlling breath is to control the “god” forces](Taittiriya Samhita 5.4.6) brahmaṇas patir etā saṃ karmāra ivādhamat “Brahmaṇaspati filled these gods with breath as a blacksmith (with his bellows); in the first age of the gods the existent was born of the non-existent.”(Rig Veda 10.72.2) prāṇá evá paśubandʰáḥ  Prana indeed is…