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QotD: Western Yoga isn't much like Ancient Hindu Yoga
Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the commodification, secularization and denuding of that tradition by the West. Such lamentation belies the fact that modern postural yoga is a creature of fabrication and reinvention.
--Farah Godrej
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QotD: Enlightened Deep Down
It’s fantastic to look at people and see that they really, deep down, are enlightened. They’re It. They’re faces of the divine ( Read more... ) -
QotD: Nataraja
When Shiva the Great Yogin chooses
to become the Lord of the Dance, Nataraja,
the universe appears as Consciousness
in its most ecstatic forms:
as art and play, as knowledge and beauty,
as the very embodiment of awareness
in the form of the Self.
-From Clothed in Consciousness:
Nataraja in the Tantric Tradition
by Dr. Douglas Brooks
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QotD: Grace
Grace just comes: you don’t earn it, you don’t deserve it, and you can’t pay it back. It’s lila, the play that comes, as Krsna puts it in the Bhagavadgita, ‘by rare chance.’ You can say ‘thank you’ and you can offer your gifts. The best gift, of course, is yourself.
--Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy
(Here: hinduism, yoga, play, quotes, luck, grace, gratitudeDrinking Ashwaganda Milk Boosts Immunity
In Ayurveda, “Traditionally, one method of administering Ashwagandha and milk was to boil them together.” According to (Heather) Zwickey, investigations into herbal remedies rarely take into account how the herb has been administered throughout the tradition of the medicine’s life cycle, such as mixing it with water, tea, or oil. While many ( Read more... )
