Archive for March, 2007

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In yOga (see sanskrit transliteration scheme), prANAyAma (control of life-force through breath) is an important and ancient conglomeration of techniques to promote […]

I am sure that there are articles written about how to give up coffee, but I am going to talk about how I failed to give up coffee. My son just loved the title—he should, since he suggested it.

As you may know, I am from Southern India where drinking coffee, several times […]

One of the main ingradients of spiritual practices is to be detached from the objective world. What is detachment really? How is that different from indifference or apathy ?

A couple of years ago in my Babaji’s kriyA yOga (See sanskrit transliteration scheme) initiation class, we were doing an exercise on the identifying of emotions […]

Have you ever noticed yourself getting annoyed by loud screaming of children playing around you? Have you ever got startled by the sudden flare up of a car alarm and got annoyed when it continued to blow? Have you ever gotten scared of the prospect of failure in the projects you are working on? […]

One of the readers asked me, “Why should we be present? What does that mean? How does that affect our lives?” Volumes have been written on and much talked about this subject.

In this article, I will elaborate my own understanding of the subject. What does living in this Present moment or Now mean? Aren’t […]