Nourish Your Body with Sattvic Food

The ancient seers, masters and yogis understood that Prakrithi, the cosmic substance, is consist of three constituents or forces called Gunas. Each guna is a derived aspect of existence and yet is never separate from the origin itself. A guna remains distinct in its characteristics and functions accordingly. Every human being, regardless of race, religion or caste, has the 3 gunas. These three gunas are: rajas, tamas, and sattvas.

Sattva guna is of illumining character. It has the quality of equilibrium and manifests as light. Rajas guna has the quality of activity, excitement and manifests as the nature of movement. The nature of Tamas guna is inertia or darkness and has a restraining quality.

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Build a Strong Stomach for Enlightenment

 

Two weeks ago, one of my students shared with me that she had two bouts of food poisoning within a month while she was on business trip. She suffered chronic pain in the abdomen and was beginning to worry that something could be seriously wrong with her digestive system. In fact, she was known to have an iron gut, but this episode really created doubt in her health. While chatting with her, an idea to design a yoga module which focuses on building a strong digestive system came into my inner space. Within a few days, everything fell in place beautifully in terms of researching for the content for purification and strengthening of the digestive system. The first lesson happened last Tuesday which went very well.

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Play with Third Eye

In my article dated 29 May 2015, I shared about the science of the third eye awakening after returning from Inner Awakening program in Varanasi. This third eye awakening initiation is a part of the Inner Awakening program which is conducted by a living incarnation, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji). In the third eye webinar, he said that “Man + Awakened Third Eye = God”. You start seeing the reality as it is, like God instead of seeing the world through the limitation of the normal human eyes.

For the last 4 weeks, I have been playing with this new power like a child discovering a new toy. I can say that this new possibility completely transformed my daily sadhana (practice) because each experience is a discovery of the unknown, like a new playground to explore and experience for the Yogi in me. Life can never be the same anymore with such a new possibility!!

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