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Phyllanthes reticulatis - Fam ..Phyllanthaceae Bangalore - Karnataka India From @ Ranjini Kamath

Brussonetia papyrifera ( Paper Mulberry ) - Bangalore - Karnataka India From @ Ranjini Kamath

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 15🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 The next sutra is: " वितकॅविचारानन्दास्मितारूपानुगमात् सम्प्रज्ञातः " Vitarka vichara aananda asmita roopa anugamat sampragyaatah             What is the purpose of this sadhna? Vitarka - when your mind has a special logic to pursue in the world and to perceive the truth. Tarka means logic. Kutarka means wrong logic - when then intention is not right and the logic is applied only to find fault; when you know deep inside you that something is not right, but you still logically prove that it is right.            Vitarka is special logic. You may be talking about dispassion and logically you are understanding it, and this...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                         🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 14🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 There is a story about Diogenes of Greece. When Alexander the Great saw him, he was being carried out to be sold as a slave. The people who were taking him to be sold also looked like slaves. Diogenes announced that he was a slave and asked loudly who wanted to buy him. Because he was roaring like a lion, it was difficult for the people to make out who was the slave and who was selling the slave.     Before Alexander the Great came to India, people in his country had told him that if he found some sanyasi here he should bring them back with him; that, they were very precious and were there only in India. So, when he was in India he ordered that some sanyasis should come to him. ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 13🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Question : Dear Guruji, is it possible to get stuck in achieving a mood of dispassion, turning one's attention to the separation between self and thoughts, emotions and sensory data, and is it possible to see more clearly who you are? But if a habit is developed of separating oneself from everything in an artificial way, you will lose spontaneity, attunement with nature and will not fully engage in life by giving it your one hundred percent. How do you walk this tightrope, and how do you know if you are too far on one side or the other? Thank you, Jai Guru Dev.            Guruji : Dispassion does not divide you. In fact, it connects you. It connects you...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 2🌀      ~ Honouring The Practice ~                  🌀DAY - 12🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Buddhists have got their own method of determining who is enlightened and who is not. Somebody who sings, dances, and enjoys living in the world is not enlightened. Somebody who mingles with their family members is not enlightened. The enlightened have to renounce their family. I have seen many of these so-called sanyasis. They are so afraid of meeting their own family. They fear that they could develop attachment for them again.            I remember in one of the ashrams, an intimate, a so-called sanyasi and renunciate, would not meet his mother, an old lady who was nearly seventy years old, whe. she would go there to meet him. He would meet everybody else. What had this poor old lady done that he would not even meet h...

Examine your friendships, they are often for a cause. There are several reasons for your friendships: 👉You make friendships because you have common enemies. Fear and threat to survival can bring people together. 👉You make friendships because you have a common problem. You talk about your problems and become friends. For example, sickness, job dissatisfaction, etc. 👉People get together because they have common interests. For example, through business or a profession (doctors, architects, social workers, etc.) 👉You make friends because you have common tastes. You have similar tastes in sports, movies, entertainment, music, hobbies, etc. 👉People become friends because of compassion and service. Out of compassion and pity for someone, you become friends with them. 👉People become friends merely because of long-term acquaintance. 💗💗💗 Brave are those who nurture friendships for only friendship’s sake. Such friendships will never die nor become soured for it is born out of...

Zingiber neesanum 💛 Zingiberaceae Endemic to Western Ghats. Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Rhynchostylis retusa सीतेची वेणी Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Porpax reticulata Gramophone Orchid Orchidaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Zingiber neesanum 💛Zingiberaceae Endemic to Western Ghats.Kolhapur,Maharashtra India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Aerides crispa Orchidaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Dendrobium lawianum Orchidaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Smithsonia viridiflora 💛💚 Orchidaceae kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Pancratium nairii 🤍 Amaryllidaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Rhynchosia hirta 💚 Fabaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Monodora myristica Annonaceae A.J.B. Indian Botanical Garden, Howrah, Kolkata. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Chionanthus mala-elengi  Oleaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

𝙼𝚊𝚣𝚞𝚜 𝚙𝚞𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚞𝚜  𝙼𝚊𝚣𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚊𝚎 𝙺𝚘𝚕𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚞𝚛, 𝙼𝚊𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚝𝚛𝚊. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Murraya paniculata 🤍 कुंती Rutaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Commelina youngii Nandikar Commelinaceae Badami, Karnataka. India  From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Strobilanthes integrifolius  Endemic to Western Ghats Acanthaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Kalanchoe olivacea Endemic to Western Ghats Crassulaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Arileted seed in Ravenala madagascariensis 💙 Sterliziaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Arileted seed in Ravenala madagascariensis 💙 Sterliziaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Gymnema sylvestre Apocynaceae  बेडकीचा पाला Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Tritaxis glabella var. lawiana  जोडपाकळी Endemic Euphorbiaceae Kolhapur Maharashtra India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Dr.Kripa Thomas, a 2nd year PG Scholar, Department of PG studies in Panchakarma, Sri Sri college of Ayurvedic Science and Research,  Bangalore was selected as the best paper presentation on "Role of Triyopasthambha in preventing Female Infertility" at "Saaphalya 2022"- A state level seminar on Infertility conducted on 27th July 2022 at DGM Ayurvedic Medical college and hospital, Gadag.

Strobilanthes heyneana Acanthaceae अकरा Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Distimake rhyncorhiza 💛 Endangered species from Western Ghats नव्हाळी Convolvulaceae Kolhapur Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Barleria involucrata var. elata 💜 Endemic to Western Ghats Acanthaceae Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Burmannia pusilla 💜 निलमणी Burmanniaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Forest Ghost Flower 💝 Aeginetia indica  गुलाबदानी Orobanchaceae Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Impatiens acaulis  Balsaminaceae  Kolhapur. Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Dipcadi ursulae Endemic  Asparagaceae  Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

Ceropegia bulbosa Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. From @ Akshay Prakash jangam

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 2🌀      ~ Honouring The Practice ~                   🌀DAY - 11🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " तत्परं पुरूषख्यातेगुॅणवैतृष्ण्यम् "            Once you know the nature of your being - total bliss and total pleasure - even the fear about the gunas and the fear about the world will disappear. It is like diabetic patients being afraid of sweets. The sight of sweets frightens them because they are forbidden. But the one who has sweetness in him doesn't mind if there are sweets near them.            This is parama vairagya - supreme dispassion, ie., not being scared or running away from the world but being in it; completely centered.            People have very peculiar ideas about enlightenment. Every culture and religion has got its own ideas about it. In...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 2🌀      ~ Honouring The Practice ~                  🌀DAY - 10🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 वितृष्णस्य वशीकार - the craving for any of the sense objects or celestial heavenly places that the mind gallops towards is an obstruction. Any expectation in meditation is an obstruction. You may have heard that someone had seen a light or somebody coming from heaven and taking them by hand. So, you sit with your eyes closed and wait for an angel to come or to have a light shine on you and then to burst into million stars. All these ideas and thoughts become an obstruction.            If you have dispassion, you will feel that you are not giving up anything for nay of these pleasures. Your desire for pleasure or happiness will make you unhappy. If you examine yourself whenever you are miserable or unhappy, you will find ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 2🌀      ~ Honouring The Practice ~                   🌀DAY - 9🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 "दृष्टानुश्रविकविषयवितृष्णस्य वशीकारसंज्ञा वैराग्यम्"            दृष्टा अनुश्रविक विषय - the mind gallops towards the world of five senses. If you just be quiet, close your eyes, or open ur eyes, or do anything, where does your mind go? It goes towards the sensne of sight. It is the same for the sense the smell, taste, sound, touch. And this craving for any of these experiences in the mind can prevent you from being in the present moment.            Vairagya is retrieving your senses from the craving or from the thirst for something back to its source for a few moments. Then, you will feel that however beautiful a scene is you are not interested in looking at it. However great the food,you f...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 2🌀      ~ Honouring The Practice ~                     🌀DAY - 8🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Therefore, स तु दीघॅकाल - a long time without a gap. सत्कारासेवितो - this is another important point - with honour and respect. Sometimes, we grumble when we do something. It is no use of doing something unenthusiastically. That is not abhyasa. Abhyasa is something done with gratitude, gratefulness, honour and with respect. This is something we lack in our life. We should do everything in life with honour and respect. Even if you do something with honour and respect, it lasts a very short period. And, if you have to do something over a period of time, you tend to lose that honour and respect. If you have to arrange a stage and, if you're doing it for the first time, you will do it with all honour and respect. You will put in so much attention,...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 2🌀      ~ Honouring The Practice ~                    🌀DAY - 7🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Never mind. The mind can never go where you are. A wave can never go to the depth of the ocean. By the time the waves go to the depth, it ceases to be a wave. So the mind can never come to you. The mind can never be you. That is why never mind! You are never the mind. It's superficial. The moment that mind starts coming towards you, it is not a mind. That's why it's said, "Never Mind." You are accepted there;never the mind. Your mind can never go there.            You know you have had this experience often. The mind keeps on asking questions, "Why,why,why,why?" You feel that something is bothering you is your mind's stuff! At that moment there is alertness, and an awareness dawns. And then there is a relief in the...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 1🌀         ~ Discipline Of Yoga ~                   🌀DAY - 6🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " अभ्यासवैराग्याभ्यां तन्निरोधः "            How will you get over the empowering nature of these vrittis?            It is through abhyasa and vairagya - practice and detachment. " तत्र स्थितौ यत्नौऽभ्यासः "            That which you do to 'be' is called abhyasa or practice. Abiding in the seer is abhyasa. That which you do to be there, now, here or in this moment is abhyasa. An effort is needed for you to relieve yourself from five modulations and just be here - now,now,now; to bring the mind to the present and not dwell on past memories. This effort is called abhyasa.            You can start by being determined that you are...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 1🌀         ~ Discipline Of Yoga ~                   🌀DAY - 5🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷           The third vritti is Vikalpa.             Vikalpa is a sort of hallucination. There may be some thought. But, it is not true. However, something hovers in the mind. This is called Vikalpa. People become paranoid. All such unfolded and baseless fears do not mean anything. Such thoughts and ideas are called Vikalpas - fantasies. The mind either gets stuck in proof or in wrong knowledge, misconception or fantasies. Fantasies are Vikalpas. You may be already forty, fifty or sixty years old, and you fantasize what it would be like if you were sixteen again. Then, you go on and think that you would go somewhere and get a big haul of gold and that, then, you would become rich. Then, yo...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 1🌀         ~ Discipline Of Yoga ~                      🌀DAY - 4🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " विपयॅयो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम् "         Pramaana is the knowledge that the mind is constantly engaged in arguments, in proofs, in knowledge, in analysing, or in wrong knowledge, wrong understanding, etc. You could be arguing and being logical. You could be looking for proof, or you will have wrong understanding. You will think that things are the way that they are not. Most of the time you impose your own views, ideas, and feelings on others. You think that this is how the things are. This activity of mind is called Viparyaya. You may have an inferiority complex and, thereby, consider someone's behavior very arrogant. Actually, they are not arrogant, and you are not being ill-treated by them. But, you fee...