[Quick links] [Pause] Let me start with a nice little story. This story may be a bit out of context. But let me narrate it in a new way. This is a story from Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the Guru of Swami Vivekananda.

[Quick links] [Pause] Though I don't wish to add the prefix ‘Yoga’ to this exercise, I will add it to satisfy the masses who think that it is part of Yoga

[Quick links] [Pause] A sanyasi is a recluse who is supposed to keep aloof from worldly matters. He is not supposed to have any processions of his own, nor he is supposed to entertain any desires for pleasures. But come on, he is also a human being!  Once there was a sanyasi who had a desire to drink soup! But he has no resources. Nor he can ask anyone to make some soup for him.

[Quick links] [Pause] I have been discussing about some new ways of gardening for the past several weeks. The topic I started with was “self propelled endless store of nutrients”

[Quick links] [Pause] Yes, I often use verbal overloading or pun to make fun of situations or people. But not here.  A few episodes ago, I compared the eight steps of Yoga to eight steps of a ladder. Asana is the 3rd step in the original Yoga of Patanjali. In the previous episode I have explained how the meaning taken on by the word asana these days, does not match the original meaning of the word.  So, am I suggesting that Asana as propagated today is a wrong step in Yoga? A wrongly placed step can topple the person who tries to climb up the ladder

[Quick links] [Pause] In today’s fast paced life, with pressure from all sides, chances are that most of us are perpetually under stress. Many of the diseases that are becoming common these days are attributed to stress. So much so that 60 percent of all the illnesses are either caused by stress or are exacerbated by stress!

[Quick links] [Pause] In the previous episode, we were discussing how the concept of Asana or Yoga posture as understood today, is quite different from what was stipulated by Patanjali in his Yoga sutra.

[Quick links] [Pause] I was talking about the experiment that my friend carried out to decompose the grain waste using the magical bacterial solution provided by Dr. Krishan Chandra.

[Quick links] [Pause] Once someone asked Ramana Maharshi the same question. By the way, Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) was a great Indian Yogi who spent years in meditation, before he started interacting with the world.

[Quick links] [Pause] Most research studies indicate that Yoga reduces stress. Lower stress means lesser chance of getting into many health problems that we discussed in the previous episode.  Actually, you don’t need to recollect the previous episode. This list of health problems includes almost all illnesses known to us today! But how does Yoga achieve stress reduction?