13 Nov LITTLE DROPS OF WATER
Sarita Modi In the days of Buddha the city of Shravasti faced a great famine. Rich people not only hid themselves, but also hid all the clothes and food available. ...
03 Nov SINCERE COMMITMENT
A little blind boy was thrown out of his house when he was only a child. He was asked to sit on the steps of the temple and take God’s name seriously. He did exactly as he was told and became a saint. When there...
22 Oct SAVE SELF
Image courtesy OsaWaterWorks Sudha N. Desai If our house catches fire – what do we do? We leave everything else behind and run out of the hose, to save our lives. So also in the case of any natural calamity – our immediate response is to...
13 Oct REDISCOVERING MYSELF THROUGH YOGA
Ila Sanghani There I was, a mental and physical wreck, a menopausal woman at 51, and it showed in everything I did. I needed a break and I finally took one from my mundane routine - a vacation trip to Goa with some close friends. It...
07 Oct Acceptance – The Way Ahead
Syamala Monie I was a school teacher with a great passion for teaching. The fact that I started my career at the age of forty made it all the more challenging for me. Ten years into my job, I contracted paratyphoid, not once but twice. The...
29 Sep June 2011 Editorial
Dr.Jayadeva Look before you leap! Do some thinking before you take up responsibilities. If you have hurriedly taken up a job and you come to realize gradually that the task is more than you can manage, be honest enough to confess this and inform...
23 Sep JET SET YOGINI
Jayashree Patil Hansa Jayadeva dispels whatever archaic notions one might have about yoga teachers. She is vivacious, confident, articulate and very stylish! She runs The Yoga Institute, Santacruz, jointly with her husband Dr. Jayadeva, whose father Shri Yogendraji founded it way back in 1918. This makes...
16 Sep AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF YOGA EDUCATION
Promil Jain Sequeira Yoga education can supplement school and university education. It can prepare the students physically and mentally for the integration of their physical, mental and spiritual faculties so that the students can become healthier, saner and more integrated members of the society and of...
25 Aug TANTRA AND YOGA
Santi Vicente, Sadhaka from Spain From times immemorial India has been known as the land of the mysterious and magical, a land of Rsis, Yogis and ascetics. The Vedic Rsis are the progenitors of the Indian spiritual ethos, of Indian culture and philosophy. From the magico-mysterious domains...
19 Aug UNCONCERNED OBSERVATION
A woman is cursed to see but does nothing else. She enjoys sitting at the window. Once she sees a charming prince who waves out to her. She gets carried away, gets up from her chair, goes to meet him and dies. ...