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Habenaria suaveolens ❤️ Endemic to Western Ghats. Orchidaceae Kolhapur, Maharashtra.India July 2022. From @ Akshay Prakash Jangam

🌼 Cassytha filiformis L Family : Lauraceae Common name : Nirmuli Habit : Twiner Habitat : Commonly found in coastal areas.  Fl. & Fr. : Jul - Sept 🍁 Root, stem, leaves and fruits of Cassytha filiformis are widely used for the treatment of ulcer, diarrhoea, GIT infection and urinary tract infections.  Sweta Mishra Biodiversity and Conservation Lab. Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India www.aprf.co.in

☘️ Allmania nodiflora (L.) R. Br. ex Wight. Family : Amaranthaceae Common name : Tadatadua Habit : Herb Habitat : It grows in cultivated fields, waste places, with sandy and lateritic soil.  Fl. & Fr. : Jul - Dec 🍁 It is a green leafy vegetable, traditionally used as a medicine to treat constipation, desentary etc.  Sweta Mishra Biodiversity and Conservation Lab. Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India www.aprf.co.in

🍀 Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker Gawler Family : Convolvulaceae Common name : Lakshmana, Pan bel Habit : Climber Habitat : Degraded forest areas and also in the plains  Fl. & Fr. : Jul - Oct 🍁 Seeds are used as cleaning agent, to improve difficult breathing,relive pain and to improve vision. A root decoction is drunk against dysentery.  Sweta Mishra Biodiversity and Conservation Lab. Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha India www.aprf.co.in

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 30🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 भ्रान्तिदशॅन is hallucination. You imagine that you are somebody special. Suddenly you think that you are a superstar. This is a problem with many people. Many seekers practice something and they get some visions. They get caught up in that vision because that vision is neither completely false, not completely true. It is a mixture of some truth, and some falsehood. So people try to hold on to it. Many cults have been formed because of this भ्रान्तिदशॅन. They have never really understood the obstacles that can come up in the path of Yoga. This is called Yoga Maya. Yoga Maya is a vision that brings a message; an intuitive message. You may be meditating and you will get an intuition to open the door because somebody is waiting for you....

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 29🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 And then comes आलस्य or laziness. You may be very active but when it comes to doing asanas, postures, exercises or pranayamas, you are lazy and do not do them. And that laziness can spread to any aspect of your life. You may intentionally not do something. Then again, you may feel a heaviness or laziness come over you.            अविरति means being obsessed with sensual objects and not letting them go. You may be hungry and eat some food. But after your tummy is full, then there is no point in thinking about food the whole day. It is the same if you want to see a beautiful place. Once you see it, your want should subside. You should not go on thinking about...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 28🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " व्याधिस्त्यानसंशयप्रमादालस्याविरतिभ्रान्तिदशॅन अलब्ध भुमिकत्वानवस्थितत्वानि चित्ताविक्षेपास्तेऽन्तरायाः " Vyaadi styaana samshaya pramaada aalasya avirati bhrantidarshana aalabdha bhoomikatvaan avasthi tatvani chitta vikshepaaha aste antaraayaah            The first obstacle is व्याधि - means illness in the body. Then comes स्त्यान - means illness of the mind - being retarded and having an inability to comprehend, to listen, to understand, to follow, and to practice.            Many of you will become ill when you do a course. When you start doing some practice or meditation, you will have pains in various parts of your body....

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 27🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " तज्जपस्तद्थॅभावनम् " This is another important sutra. If you say Japa loudly, the very sound can remind you of that state of feeling during Japa. For example, if you say mango, the word itself makes your mouth water. Immediately there is a reaction and there is a feeling. Saying " Christmas " immediately generates a feeling of celebration and giving and receiving gifts.            So, तज्जपस्तद्थॅभावनम - means that when you say "OM", you remember that totality of your being - that being which is at the very core of this existence, that life which is free from misery and which is all unconditional love. The sound "OM" reminds you of the Lord of the Creati...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 26🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " तत्र निरतिशयं सवॅज्ञत्वबीजम् "  This indicates that the seed of all-knowing is in that state of consciousness. This is very important. तत्र निरतिशयं सवॅज्ञत्वबीजम् । The seed of all- knowing is present in a very subtle manner. At this point people get confused. They wonder that if Lord Krishna knew everything why did He try to pacify all concerned, and try to stop the war three times. He knew that a war was going to take place. But, He never told Arjuna this, and also that he was going to win this war, he would rule the world. And, if he lost it he would go to heaven. It did not seem as if He knew everything and, consequently, the result of the war. He did not give the right ans...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 25🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " स पूवेॅषामपि गुरूःकालेनानवच्छेदात् " This being, this consciousness is Guru. It is a guide to even the ones who were here before. This is because there is no break in time, as far as the consciousness is concerned. There is something similar in the Bible. God had said that He was Abraham before and had taught people who were before Him. The same thing is touched upon by Krishna when he told Arjuna that He had taught Ikshvaku and Manu. And Arjuna wondered how could Krishna have taught them? They had been born long ago and Krishna was his contemporary. So Arjuna exclaimed that he was terribly confused already. And that he should not be told those things - that Krishna was a Guru to peop...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 24🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Vipaaka is fruit of the action; consequences of the action. Enjoying or suffering the fruit of an action is not applicable here. This does not touch that core of your being and existence, which is the Lord of creation; that consciousness which is free from this.            And Aashaya. Aashaya means latent desires or impressions, opinions, seeds, etc. So when a consciousness or a being is free from klesha, misery, karma, vipaaka - the fruit of action, and aashaya, the impressions of actions, then that being or consciousness is Eshwara or Lord. And the Lord is not somewhere in the sky but in your heart. It is in every being's heart. Your actions and the even...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 23🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 "Asmita" means "me" or "I." This feeling of "me, I" is the second cause of suffering. That is the reason we do the Hollow and Empty process. When we do it, there is no "I". You exist as though you are not there. You exist like a flower; like a cloud. You exist like the space - free, and hollow and empty, rather than as if you are somebody - "I, I, me, me." Asmita is feeling what people think about you, what you want from them, how you could take advantage of them, whether they consider you to be good or bad, etc. This gives you misery. Nothing else can give you misery - need give you misery. Your own idea of "me, mine, me, mine," not being one with the existence, having a separate feeli...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 4🌀                ~ Who Is God ~                 🌀DAY - 22🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Surrendering to the Lord, you can achieve the fully blossomed state of consciousness. Now, what is the Lord? Who is the Lord? Where is He? It is easy to say surrender to God, but what is God? Where is God? Nobody has ever seen God. What is it that rules this world?            You will find that it is love that rules the world. The centre core of the existence rules whole universe. Just like the sun is the center of the solar system and rules all the planets, love is the core of your life. Love is beyond your changing body, changing thoughts, and changing feelings. It is the very center, core, of your existence, which is very subtle and delicate. It can be c...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 21🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " तीव्रसंवेगानामासन्नः । " Often we give third, fourth or fifth preference to our practices. First preference is always given to wordly things - our survival, and last preference to anything that is spiritual. Then the spiritual growth will be slow.            Patanjali said, "तीव्र संवेगानाम असन्नः"            When you give first preference to your spiritual practices, then it is easier. The focus of your life should be spiritual growth and peace. Then, all the other things will be around it.            Your first and foremost commitment in life is to be with Truth, and to evolve in Truth. This should be followed by your duties and responsi...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 20🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " श्रद्धावीयॅस्मृतिसमाधिप्रज्ञापूवॅक इतरेषाम् " This is the most vital sutra.            Shraddha means faith. Faith creates such good qualities in your consciousness. It is made stable, steady and solid. Doubt in consciousness makes you very vulnerable, fearful, uncertain - fluid. But faith makes you solid. Faith brings totality in you. It pulls together all the loose ends of your consciousness. It integrates your whole personality. Doubt scatters and destroys you. It disseminates you and your energy. It pulls you apart. Dissemination of energy is doubt. Consolidation of your energy is faith. The feeling when you have faith is a form of consolidation; a strength. That is why Jesus also said faith is...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 19🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Prakriti laya is a big practice. People sit in solitude for years till all thoughts disappear. And all that they are left with is emptiness. You can try doing this as experiment when you are very worried or tensed. Just sit by a flowing river or stream and keep looking at the water. Within a few moments, you feel as though there is a magnetic pull; that your mind is being pulled in the direction of the current. Then, sit on the other bank and do the same thing. Then you'll see that youeind is being pulled in the other direction. That is why many people who want to jump into a river and commit suicide, cannot do so once they look at the flowing water. Something happens in them at the sight of flowing water. There is a shift, and t...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 18🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " भवप्रत्ययो विदेहप्रकृतिलयानाम् " This goes more into an esoteric line. Samadhi does not belong to just a particular level of existence. It surpasses that level, too. It goes into other world also. People who do not have a body can be affected by the meditation, too. When you meditate you are not just bringing harmony within yourself but you are influencing the subtle levels of creation and the subtle bodies at all the different levels of existence in the creation. So, your meditation influences those people who lived hundreds of years ago - their consciousness and their minds. It influences the minds and consciousness of people who would be living in the future, too. Though, life is there in every moment, it is also infinite. Y...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹             🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 17🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " विरामप्रत्ययाभ्यासपूवॅः संस्कारशेषोऽन्यः " By doing something you cannot experience, you cannot achieve this awareness. You cannot bring up the intelligence and the alertness in you by effort. It can be done only without effort; with relaxation - by relaxing and reposing in the Self. विराम प्रत्यया - resting. अभ्यासपूवॅः means the practice of resting - conscious relaxation and rest.            Unconscious rest is sleep which we are force to do by the nature. You are not resting voluntarily;you are forced to. When you are tired,it feels as if nature is pulling you down and forcing you to rest. You are not resting voluntarily. It is only in meditation that you really rest because you are consciously ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀                  ~ Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 16🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Then comes Vichara. विचारानुगम ।          In vichara, there are all the experiences - smell, sight, visions, taste or sounds. When you meditate, these are all called विचारानुगम समाधि; all experiences and thoughts - observing the thoughts that come and go. There are two states of mind that surface in you often. One is a thought which disturbs you and the other is a thought that does not disturb you, but that which just hovers around in your consciousness and you are aware of it. You are in samadhi;you are in an equanimous state of mind. At the same time, there are thoughts hovering. It is a part of meditation. Thoughts exist and experiences exist. This is a s...

*Introduction* OM, I bow down to Lord Shiva - the one who is self luminous, delighting in his own being. And now the beginning of the Shiva Sutra.  Consciousness is the soul, knowledge is the soul. Knowledge is bondage. The body is the union of raman, nature and nature and raman, the ego.  The spiritual endeavour is raman. One who applies his total energy, for him the world exists no more. Two ways exist of searching for the truth.  One way is that of the male - aggression, violence, the scramble for power. Another is that of the female - surrender, withdrawal.  Science is the male path, aggressive, religion is a female path, bowing down, submissive. Make this distinction very clearly.  All scriptures of the East begin with a salutation to God. This salutation is not just a formality, it is not merely following a tradition or a convention.  The salutation is indicative of the fact that the path ahead is of surrender. Only the humble will attain....