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Yoga ( Sanskrit, योग Listen) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. There is a broad variety of Yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. Among the most well-known types of yoga are Hatha yoga and Rāja yoga.
Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the west, following the success of Swami Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world. Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise; it has a meditative and spiritual core. (Full article...)
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Did you know...
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- ... that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda?
- ... that Tao Porchon-Lynch, who studied under Sri Aurobindo and Indra Devi, has been recognized as the world's oldest yoga teacher at age 95?
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- April 11 Wednesday Varuthini Ekadashi
- April 14 Saturday Solar New Year, Mesha Sankranti
- April 18 Wednesday Parashurama Jayanti, Akshaya Tritiya
- April 22 Sunday Ganga Saptami
- April 23 Monday Sita Navami
- April 25 Wednesday Mohini Ekadashi
- April 26 Thursday Gauna Mohini Ekadashi
- April 28 Saturday Narasimha Jayanti
- April 29 Sunday Vaishakha Purnima, Buddha Purnima
- April 30 Monday Narada Jayanti
- April 7, 1920. Birth of Ravi Shankar
- April Rama Navami (Hinduism)
- April Thai and Khmer New Year
- April 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese monk, expounded Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
- April 1897 – The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda to serve as the humanitarian counterpart to the Hindu monastic order Ramakrishna Math.
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The Right and Left in India - Dr. David Frawley - India Inspires Talks
In this Talk, Dr. Frawley clearly explains the intellectual roots of "The Right" and "The Left" in India. He states that in India, the political terminology of right and left is defined by Marxists, who like to call anyone that opposes them right-wing or fascists. According to their view anything traditionally Hindu would have to be right-wing on principle, just as only their views are deemed progressive, even if supporting Stalinist tactics. This means that in India such subjects as Yoga, natural healing, vegetarianism and animal rights are all automatically right-wing because they are causes of the Hindu mind, with antecedents in ancient Indian culture. Great Hindu yogis and sages from Shankaracharya to Sri Aurobindo are classified by modern Marxists as right-wing, if not fascist.
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Today's featured quote
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| To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
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| ~ Swami Vivekananda ~
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