Tag: Vedic wisdom
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It’s not them, it’s you
Sometimes days after an argument, completely out of the blue, I get bombarded by fragments of it. The sharp tone, the slight pause, palpitations, and a nagging feeling that something wasn’t right about my reaction. The voice may have been mine but the words seemed puppeteered by someone standing beside me. Overcome by it, I…
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Yoga, yogi, yogya?
Tight tights, bendy bodies, Buddha icons, chants, incense, oils, mats, bottles, towels…namaste. There is so much more to yoga than the subculture that surrounds it. In the broadest sense, yoga (योग) means alignment. This alignment can be internal, between mind-breath-and-body, or external, between our bodies and the forces that surround us. It could also be between two…
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वर्ण का वर्णन
Description (वर्णन) of Varna (वर्ण) As the discussion was peaking, BAM! I was slammed with the ‘caste system’ argument. I always loose this one because I get too in my head about it. The trouble is real though because most of the things people say when defending something controversial either ends up sounding too desperate,…