Vedic yoga Research & Training Center

When God gives pain, God again gives us the power to suffer and provides people to look after us. Never worry. Everything will in the end serve only in taking your nearer to Him. Be assured of this. Pain is the Lord’s kindest means to wake us up the quickest.

There is nothing at any time in any circumstance to worry over, “Why this to me?” What you have is His gift to you. What you do with what you have is your gift to Him. Convert every experience to being His will and humbly surrender to Him. Accept whatever environment you get in life as his prasad.

Lokesh Sharma

£Happy Yoga Day
Katha Upanishad - c. 5th century BCE ("When the five senses, along with the mind, remain still and the intellect is not active, that is known as the highest state. They consider yoga to be firm restraint of the senses. Then one becomes un-distracted for yoga is the arising and the passing away.)

There is darkness when we are closed.
and there's sunshine when we are open
to the heart's insight.🙏🏻🕉

Beyond relaxation

Self-awareness is perception or knowledge of one's own conditions or states of changes in the body or the mind. Because biofeedback indicates the changes of the body and brain in the form of a sound or sketch, one can increase the self-awareness up to a certain point as a side-effect of the biofeedback process.

A trained and alert yogi is completely conscious of the subconscious activities of his body and brain, and is able to control his autonomic nervous system by concentration. Today, anyone with a little practice of the biofeedback system can achieve a conscious state of relaxation and expansion of mental capacity, plus creativity. A yogi knows that the autonomic nervous system, which controls and regulates the involuntary functions of the body, is controlled by the subconscious mind. Up to a certain point, the subconscious mind can be directed by the conscious mind. Through yoga nidra, antar mouna, mantra yoga, nada yoga and trataka, a yogi can co-ordinate and increase the relaxation of the muscular and nervous systems, thus avoiding the stress chain reaction process. A yogi can gain relief from low emotional and low energy feelings. He can encourage the brain to develop its responsibilities for maintaining the harmony between the internal and external environments. He can expand the receptivity of consciousness, allowing it to intermingle with the subconscious and unconscious parts of mind to become aware of those unseen activities that are constantly changing and forming the human personality.

A simple practice of developing breath awareness, and trying to develop a rhythm in the breath, will allow one to watch exactly how the muscles and nervous activities are co-ordinated, how incoming and outgoing impulses are channelized, and how introversion of mind takes place. The same practice, if developed and practised properly, will enable the aspirant to transcend the sensual states of personality and adopt the attitude of a seer. This opens the insight into the surrounding atmosphere in society, while taking protective measures to defend the personality from the influx of negative reactions.

In biofeedback, instruments are used to obtain limited information from the subconscious mind. But external influence can also affect the experiment, i.e. if you touch a person connected to the GSR (skin monitor), then a considerable alteration can be detected in the graph of the monitor. One of the difficulties that one faces in biofeedback is that it requires control over oneself so that external influences do not affect the experiment. These monitoring instruments which are used for relaxation and concentration serve as indirect measurements of the sympathetic nervous system's activity. Biofeedback can only detect unspecified functions of the autonomic nervous system and suggest how far one is able to change his activities. - extracts from Electronic Awareness.

May you all attain full inner illumination! May the supreme light of lights enlighten your understanding! May you all attain the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of the Self! May you all prosper gloriously on the material as well as spiritual planes!

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing.