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Yoga

Yoga is indeed genuine and historically authentic. It is natural and also transcendental. Yoga is based in the understanding of human welfare and gradually it has been growing into the most popular movement of health and well being throughout world. Yoga is becoming more interesting to people of all generations and genre, the young, the older and the elderly. It is accepted as beneficial in society and its systems and practice inspire a culture of greater and lasting upliftment through health and enlightenment. 

Yoga is easily available to everyone and has no sectarian or religious limitation, but rather aides any lifestyle. That is why it is practiced in all varieties in all social-milieu throughout the world. Yoga stimulates, rejuvenates, appreciates and liberates. It compliments and develops what you already have and provides an understanding of your self that enhances the process of healthy life and elevation in human evolution.

The regulatory practices of yoga, as simple as sitting and breathing or meditating, recondition us from the effects caused by our irregular behaviour and the stresses we endure in our day to day eating, sleeping, mating rituals, and defence against the onslaught of nature itself. With the practice of yoga also comes a broader and more compassionate attitude.

Meditation 

Fashionable at all times, yoga and meditation provide substance for self-development in their dispassionate and artful regulatory principles of freedom. Knowledge of yoga constitutes a great science, and each and every human being can benefit by its learning, for his or her own self-interest. Practicing yoga and meditation addresses the problems of life and deals with the issues of our births, deaths, disease and the aging processes.

By engaging a little of our precious time, the boon of understanding that despite the advancement of our creature comforts, our backs or heads etc. - ache. Our comfort zones aren’t enough. Our minds are agitated and our intelligence bewildered. Our vital force remains covered. The stresses of work, even sports, gym workouts or holidays (with or without the kids), don’t seem to abate the stress of life. This dis-ease of modern life can be cured with the practice of yoga. So it makes sense to derive benefit by learning from the source of this system for improvement in the condition of our life. And, because we are not corrupting the theme of yoga we trust this attempt at broadcasting the benefits of this process and this divine philosophy of unity in diversity, will be a success.

In an age where people are afflicted by an atmosphere threatened with terror, where anxiety and stress appear like a plague, where quarrel and hypocrisy almost seem like normal ways of dealing, yoga provides the solution in the world’s misdirected ways. It provides sanity and its knowledge enriches.

We hope this newsletter helps to serve you with the variety of culture, art and science of yoga, known as Veda - or the knowledge of life!

Love is all you need!

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Quench Your Thirst For Knowledge

The Bhagavad-gita

“When doubts haunt me, when disappointments, stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.” 

–  Mohan K. Gandhi

Bhagavad-gita contains the essence of all instruction on yoga.

“I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The purpose of the Bhagavad-gita is to deliver mankind from the nescient material existence. Everyone is in difficulty in so many ways because their real consciousness is covered by existence within this nescience. Although we all feel this anxiety only a few are actually inquiring about their position, as to what they are, and why they are put into these awkward positions, and so on. Human intelligence begins with this sort of inquiry. Therefore, those who begin to question why they are suffering or where they came from and where they shall go after death are the proper students for understanding Bhagavad-Gita. The purpose of life is re-established by Lord Krishna, through submissive aural reception of this literature by a sincere student from a bona fide teacher.”

- A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami

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