I have been practicing meditation for 25 years and teaching it for 10 years. When I started meditation, it was seen as a mystic practice reserved for monks and ascetics sitting high in the Himalayan, a practice done to achieve nothing less than self mastery and self-realization. But today, I see people from all walks of [...]
Meditation may have become a lifestyle trend embraced by a vast multitude of populations around the globe however do you know that before it became a ubiquitous trend endorsed by celebrities and renowned figures, this was a sacred practice, a holistic recipe of success and evolution for monks, seers, rishis and sages of ancient Indian civilization. [...]
DOGS - GODS OWN ANIMAL [fbvideo link="https://www.facebook.com/ISshivanand/videos/1831925650359071/" width="500" height="400" onlyvideo="1"] We all were about to sit in meditation when suddenly there was commotion, a friend's dog had somehow walked into the hall. It came to me, jumped on my lap and started to lick my face. Even though I was discussing a serious topic with a [...]
जब तक मेरी स्वयं की संतान नही हुई, मैं कभी अपनी माँ की भावनाओं को सही से समझ न पाया| मेरे आदर्श सदा से पुरुष योद्धा रहे जो की मैदान-ए-जंग में हट्टे-कट्टे और अ आक्रामक रहे| तब के समय में मैं प्रकृति की सूक्ष्मता को ग्रहण करने में विफल रहा| मैं हमेशा पेड़ को मोटे तने [...]
I never really understood my mother till the time I had my own child. My heroes were always men, always the one in the battlefield strong and aggressive. I could never back then understand the subtleties of nature for I always looked at the strong hard tree not realising that even the sky touching tree comes [...]
The concept that some lives matters more then others is the root cause of all evil in the world. It's this superiority complex that is drilled into children by their parents or teachers or community or religion. Telling them that as they belong to a certain thought that somehow they are superior to others. This sense [...]
"For ideal outcome, create ideal environment. The kind of thoughts, the kind of body, the kind of rules you have set for yourself will decide what will become of you." "To paint everyone with the same brush is to be racist. To say that all good men have an ulterior motive is to be racist. Every [...]
"I want to pacify God. The Almighty is upset with me. To hold such a belief is like holding a can of water and attempting to appease the ocean by offering that water to it, hoping that with so much water, the ocean will feel overwhelmed and it will overflow. Dear Shiv Yogi, let me inform [...]
"कभी कोई मुकाम ऐसा लगे की यह तो किसी ने पार नहीं किया या कर नहीं पाया तो यह मत, तो यह मत कहना के क्योंकि किसी और ने इसे सिद्ध नहीं किया तो मैं भी नहीं कर सकता| ऐसे में कहना - हे माँ प्रकृति अगर तुझ में पहल होनी है तो मैं बनु [...]
FAMILY BOND IS LIKE A FISH POND. TAKE WATER OUT, FISH DIES. TAKE LIFE FORCE ENERGY OUT, FAMILY BOND DIES
