By Atul Vyas The swadhisthana chakra is the seat of will and resolution. It controls the power to move around or overcome obstacles. The human organism and all other living creatures has a natural inclination to move towards pleasure and away from pain. This is called the pleasure principle. The pleasure enables us to move more...
By Bal Ram Singh, PhD The varna system refers to a classification framework, sometimes meaning as color (such as in gaur (गौर) varna referring to brightness), categories as in class of people, or letters as in alphabets (varnamala, वर्णमाला), or stages of life as in varnashrama. The varna in another form, varana (वरण ) also means to choose...
Atul Vyas The chakras are an indication of the fullest potential of each and every person. The chakras represent the power of consciousness that lies within every human being. The lowest of the human chakras, the mooladhara represents the level of man where there are severe limitations both in knowledge and the ability. The first chakra's...
By Bal Ram Singh, PhD Brahmacharya is the underlying training of humanity. Today the world is at a crossroad of environmental, social, political, and health issues that have not been seen for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Humanity is suffering, and is approaching the brink of devastation with no light foreseen at the end...
By Atul Vyas "By energies of consciousness, brahma is messed; from that matter is born and from matter life and mind and the worlds": Mundaka Upanishad The root chakra is the building block on which all other chakras must rest-so this chakra is of crucial importance. It relates to the element earth. In this chakra system, earth...
By Bal Ram Singh, PhD Brahmana (Brahmin) has been a Varna described for those who not only train themselves during the brahmacharya period of their lives, and use that training and trait the rest of their lives, but also engage themselves in innovating and renovating the Brahm by living the concept comprehensively, under the guidance...
By Atul Vyas The root chakra connects us with the physical world. It transfers energies to physical and earthly level and lets earthly energy stream into our subtle system. The root chakra forms the vital foundation for all the higher chakras and is the source of life force. Here we are in touch with inexhaustible reservoir of...
By Bal Ram Singh, PhD There is so much controversy about discrimination and politics based on caste, that it has become an issue internationally. A lot more activists and political personalities have come together to form a dal (group) for Dalits (defined as oppressed, to be derived from Sanskrit dalan) to introduce an anti-caste discrimination law...
By Atul Vyas Anxiety is the mother of all mental disorders. The world celebrated mental health day on Oct 10. For perfect mental health yoga as the most important effective and appropriate intervention. Yoga treats it through chakra balancing and activation. The word Chakra comes from Sanskrit that translates as 'wheel,' in reference to seven principal...
