Hey Youth! You are the NEW GEN!

On last Wednesday, I started a 21-Day Yoga Challenge for the Youth as one way to get our modern youth to experience the power of spiritual practices in transforming their lives. A total 12 people participated in this challenge and it would be interesting to see how many are able to live up to this simple spiritual tapas (penance).

Engaging the youth has been filling my inner space since last year, if you understand that youth forms 50% of global population and they represent a huge possibility for humanity, you will feel my urgency to reach out to this group who is facing a major crisis.

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Haritakki – The Spiritual Cleanser

Do you know that in Vedic tradition, there is a drink of the Gods?

This drink is called Haritakki power (also known as Kadukaai podi), it is said in ancient Vedic scriptures that the Haritaki came to life when a nectar drop fell from the cup of Indra, the King of heaven. In fact, the power of Haritakki is recorded in ‘Chikitsa Sthana’, the special therapy section of the early Ayurvedic text, the “Charaka Samhita”, or the ‘Compendium of Charaka’ dating as far back as 300 B.C. Ayurveda is the sacred science of longevity, holistic health, well-being in the Vedic tradition.

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Sankalpa: Sowing the Seed of Change

Do you know the science of setting a resolution or intention?

In the Vedic tradition, there is a powerful practice called Sankalpa, it’s like sowing the seed of change for whatever reality we want to cause. The Sanskrit word – San means altogether, Kalpa comes from Kalpana which means idea. So Sankalpa means that all my ideas and thoughts have united in only one thought, one idea, one goal, and that is defined in this undertaking. Therefore, Sankalpa is a resolution or commitment that is the most effective means of training our mind by reminding ourselves constantly of our highest possibility.

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