Art and Science Of Life

Panchakshri Mantra oscillates in our body with each breath and gives us life. A sadhak could realise spandan of this mantra in their body, provided he is completely still. These spandan or vibrations are realised at different centres in the body which are called chakras. These spandan have different frequencies corresponding to five elements, hence realised at the centres of these elements.  Yoga has detailed six chakras as centres of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Sky and time. Each chakra is dominated by an element and have vibrations of the frequencies of that element. These vibrations produce sound of sanskrit words. This way each chakra is home of an element. When corresponding identification words of these elements are beaded together, we get Panchakshri. The best way to notice Panchakshri is in meditation. The flow of cosmic life force starts from the head with a universal vibration called Om ….. Om is taar and the starting point.. the first vibration that caused all...

......but you have to listen patiently. You must be aware that we are made up of five elements. These elements are arranged in an order of creation or merger. Let’s say if we start from head and go down the spinal column, we traverse from element of Sky till earth. Believe you remember the five elements. She replied confidently, “Sky, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.” Yes, you are right and the order of their creation is also the same. Our spinal column has one very important nadi or vessel – sushumna. This nadi holds various chakras, plexus or ganglions, these are called nodes of elements in yoga. These chakras are Vishudhi, Anahat, Manipur, Swadhisthan and Mooladhar. These 5 chakras have these 5 elements in the same order of creation.                 Pausing for a minute, I looked deep into her eyes. I could see that she was alert. I started again…..When the first spandan, vibration happens its known to us as Om. This Om gunjars...

Social unrest is growing day by day with stress levels going up. Humans are tending away from humane. Crime, terrorism is uprooting the value system. The stress levels are so high that we have started losing sight of health, family and our value systems. In such a dark age, this world could be a better place only if each one of us recovers from such mental state. So, the questions that comes in mind is that what could we do to remain free from stress? Or what could be done that it doesn’t eat us up? Its stress only that causes lot of health problems like B.P., diabetes, psycho issues, etc. So, the question that we need to answer to our self is:- Do we wish to be free from stress? Do we need to enhance health and manage our B.P.? Do we wish to be finding solutions to our problems of day to day life? Is there any simple way we could improve our relationship? What could be done to get health, wealth and a quality life? The answer to all these questions lies i...