The Rishi as teacher, considered to be an embodiment of the source is no ordinary person. Having attained to the truth, he not only draws the worthiest of students, he knows and has the power to even break down a highly accomplished king, if that is what it takes to spark off that revolution in him.  

EPISODE 2 SEGMENTS

1. The taming of a king
2. The assimilation of Raktabija
3. Romancing the imperishable

The pandemic has changed the way we meet life, the way we perceive reality. Yet, life has in a way returned to its normal fast paced, disaster and conflict prone ways. Even as humanity is busy with normalizing this altered situation, it seems to be a good idea to absorb the life teachings of the last three few years. 

Culture as Indians have known it is often referred to as being perennial. This is not only because of its antiquity. It is said to be self-renewing. A culture that reinvents itself constantly, so that it seems that it has clues of how we might meet massive changes, upheavals that occur in Nature. 

In this series of blogs. Dr. Bharat Thakur ventures on a deep and wide exploration Indian culture as a global culture. We begin with presenting the first chapter, ‘Message of the Rishi’ which is set in four blogs. 

REVISITING INDIAN CULTURE AND TEACHINGS OF GLOBAL INDIAN THINKERS IN TIMES OF PANDEMICS

Part 1 - THE MESSAGE OF THE RISHI

Chapter 1: Doorway To The Imperishable

Chapter 2: The Knots That Tie Us Down

Chapter 3: The Gift Of Fire

Chapter 4: Life The Antidote

In ‘The Message Of The Rishi’, Dr. Bharat Thakur takes us directly to the teachings that are enshrined in a particular part of the Veda called the Upanishads. Many knowers say, that in the Upanishads, you can get a glimpse of the finest and most timeless essence of the perennial culture, also called ‘sanatana’, which is etymologically described as ‘nitya nutana’, “a culture that ever new”. 

What is the source of this fountain of life? in the first of the four chapters, ‘Doorway To The Imperishable’, we get introduced to the ‘rishi’, the ‘seer’ whose teachings were about immortality, about imperishability, who yearned to induce in his beloved students, this knowledge of the beyond.   

It’s true that just drinking water is not enough to hydrate a dehydrated body. It takes a touch of attentiveness to how we live. Find out how in this last of the three episodes. 

EPISODE 3 SEGMENTS

1. Drinking enough may not be enough
2. Youthfulness is the crackle of electrical energy
3. The chemistry of rehydration
4. More than just cosmetic
5. The goodness of a bath
6. Let it begin

Geologists say, the emergence of water was a crucial event in the Earth’s life that made it possible for life to emerge. Our planet in particular is 70% water at the surface and inside our body, we are as much water. No wonder, studies show that dehydration = ageing.

EPISODE 2 SEGMENTS

1. The chronological and the biological
2. The most precious
3. Water our home
4. Ageing = Dryness
5. The medium
6. Carrier of lustre
7. There everywhere

After air, it is water that we cannot live without. Research shows that when the cells get dehydrated to a point, the organism dies, and thought we my not realise it, this can happen quiet rapidly.

This blog is an introduction to water, not just as a life sustainer, but as a substance of beauty and wellbeing that needs to be cherished, a simple substance that holds great age reversal secrets. 

EPISODE 1

Maybe we do take water for granted, a little too much. Lets look at it as an essential ingredient in an alchemists’ anti-aging secrets. 

EPISODE 1 SEGMENTS

1. No short cuts
2. Kaya Kalpa - Entering The energy cycle
3. It’s about balance
4. Healing through self study

Can we do things that can impact our very DNA in such a way that it slows down ageing? And can that be some day to day stuff? Let’s find out.

While we see the net sum of ageing on our skins, sagging muscles, weaker metabolism and so on, at the core of the ageing process is what goes on in a particular chemical structure in our DNA called the telomerase.

Youth is everyone’s secret and not so secret desire. It’s both  passion and desperation, the stuff of dream and dread. The anti aging hack is a timeless obsession and the stuff of the most enduring mythologies. Alchemy an art and a science that belongs to the space of legends in popular discourse is a fond hope of many. Yet oral traditions talk of great alchemists. The siddha are the legendary ancients of India who are said to be the source of both yoga and ayurveda lineages. The siddha are also said to be possessors of the secrets of antiaging. In this blog we explore anti ageing as a science that is closely connected to both yoga and ayurveda. 

Episode 1

Joy has a youthful vibe, anxiety ages you by many years in a matter of a few minutes. In this introductory episode, Dr. Bhartat Thakur says the first step of KayaKalpa is to love yourself.

The eight limbs can be seen as comprised of two divisions. The external and the internal. While the external engaged the senses, the internal is about what happens beyond the sensory experience. This is extraordinary - that a map can be presented for the journey from the concrete to the abstract. From action to happiness. 

EPISODE 3 SEGMENTS

1. PRANAYAMA
2. AWAKENING THE WITNESS
3. PRATYAHARA
4. DHARANA
5. DHYANA
6. SAMADHI
7. NOW, BEGINS THE PATH OF YOGA

Ashtanga, the eight limbs, is a frame work that is attributed to the Siddha, Sage Patanjali. It seems that many millennia ago, this paradigm was evolved just for today. It is just what the doctor, the therapist and the healer ordered. It’s important to spend time understanding the eight limbs as it shows is the path. A path that is unique to each one of us. 

EPISODE 2 SEGMENTS

1. ASHTANGA
2. YAMA, THE RESTRAINTS
3. NIYAMA, THE AFFIRMATIONS
4. ASANA