Vishnu is the Johnny Depp of Gods. Most deities usually play one role: Ganesh plays the lovable elephant-headed God, Shiva is the ascetic meditating on…
Īśvarapraṇidhāna (ईश्वरप्रणिधान) is the combination of īśvara (ईश्वर) and praṇidhāna (प्रणिधान). Patañjali tells us that īśvara is a unique being (puruṣa पुरुष) beyond all affliction…
ॐ Svādhyāya (स्वाध्याय) is commonly translated as “self-study”; a combination of “sva”, which means “one’s own”, or “self”, and “adhyāya” which means “chapter (as in…
Like most Sanskrit words, tapas (तपस्) is difficult to render into one concise English term without losing much of its meaning (explicit and implied). Popular…
योगेन चित्तस्य पदेन वाचां मलं शरीरस्य च वैद्यकेन । योऽपाकरोत् तं प्रवरं मुनीनां पतञ्जलिं प्राञ्जलिरानतोऽस्मि ।। yogena cittasya padena vācāṁ malaṁ śarīrasya ca vaidyakena yo’pākarot…
ॐ नम: शिवाय om namaḥ śivāya Shiva aka Rudra aka Adinath aka Mahadeva aka Maheshvara aka Nilakanth aka Mrityunjaya aka Digambara aka Hara (and at…
ॐ नमो नारायणाय om namo nārāyaṇāya According to the Gregorian calendar, we have just entered the year 2013. According to the Yogic Seers, we are…
ॐ श्रीमन्महागणाधिपतये नम: om śrīman mahāgaṇādhipataye namaḥ New Year’s Resolutions can be slippery things. In the light of Yoga, we propose not New Year’s Resolutions,…