Excerpt from Tantra – The path of ecstasy
Related: Architecture of the world
According to one prominent school, Kashmir’s Pratyabhijna, Tantra’s ontology (model of existence) comprises thirty six principles or categories (tattva). These evolve out of the ultimate Reality, or Parama-Shiva, who or which is called a metaprinciple (atattva). in descending order, these are as follows:
I. Universal [...]
This is very much in conformance with the thoughts of ancient seers of India, that creation is crystallized sound – the Nada Brahman. I have been fascinated with this subject and hope to study it and blog about my understanding of it sometime.
(Excerpt from Tantra – The Path of Ecstasy)
According to the Puranic-Tantric picture of the world, our earth is at the center of a vast multidimensional and multilayered universe, which is known as the ‘brahmanic egg’ (brahmanda). Tradition speaks of countless such universe islands floating in the infinite cosmic ocean. The observable material earth is merely [...]
I am currently reading Tantra – The path of ecstasy by Georg Feurstein. Georg is very well known as one of the best known researchers in Yoga and Indian spirituality. This book corrects many widespread misconceptions and shows Tantrism to be a complex and intriguing tradition that deserves deeper study.
The Tantric teachings are geared toward [...]
MissionRK
MissionRk is a group of individuals determined to help facilitate the advent of a new spiritual era by undertaking Gayatri Sadhana. The website is a treasure trove of information for any spiritual seeker. Dr.RamaKrishna who has a doctorate degree in chemistry is also a fluent orator. He has spent many years under the tutelage of [...]
This is the famous classic that has sold more than a quarter million copies. It is the story of this celebrated writer’s spiritual odysset, his journey up and down India to seek out and interview holy people. We meet such fascinating figures as Meher Baba – the silent messiah; Shri Shankara – the spiritual head [...]
You can read the book online or download it from Google Books here.
Preface
The literature of Aryan medicine is so vast and copious that it is impossible to do adequate justice to its history within the compass of a small manual. The science is acknowledged on all hands to be of great antiquity, and contains a mine of [...]
Paper presented in the Indian journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Abstract :
Surya Namaskar (SN), a group of Yogic exercise consists of a set of twelve postures which is practiced by some of the yoga practitioners. The present study was undertaken to observe critically the energy cost and different cardiorespiratory changes during the practice of SN. Twenty-one [...]
