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🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 60🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Look into the motives behind your actions. Often, you do not go for things that you really want. You go for them because others want them. You may even go for something depending on what others would say, think or do about it. And many times you are not clear about what you want because you have never really looked into yourself. You are swayed by fleeting thoughts, fleeting emotions and fleeting desires. Your desire may not even be your own. Maybe, some outside factors - food, events, situations or company have raised a storm in you and you start believing that storm as your very Self. That is why often you are not happy even when your desires are fulfilled. You should observe the Self. You should wonde...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 59🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 We are talking about tapas. What does tapas do? Why should we undergo tapas?             It purifies our system and strengthens our system - purity and strength. That is the purpose of tapas. But tapas can bring a big ego in a person. Unfortunately, people think by doing tapas, they will become very great. If someone has to fast for long periods of time, he must have had lots of impurities. Out of proportion glorification of tapas leads to ego.             That is why the next thing to be done immediately after tapas is swaadhyaaya. Swaadhyaaya is self-study. Why do you fast? Is it just to show off? Is it in competition with somebody?   ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 7🌀                ~ Kriya Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 58🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 And then there is Manomaya Tapas - tapas of the mind. " Manaha prasaadaha sowmyataam mounam aatma vinigraha " Patanjali has said four things.            Manaha prasaadaha - the pleasantness in the mind. It is a big tapas to maintain the pleasantness of the mind. You may feel pleasant but soon you drop all that pleasantness. Manaprasaadah - maintaining the pleasantness and contentment in the mind.            Sowmyataam - sowmya means calm and composed. You can feel pleasant, but excited. That is not sowmya. Some people feel very pleasant but they do not feel calm. The pleasantness can mak them feel very crazy and excited. So, al...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 7🌀                ~ Kriya Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 57🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 There are three other sections of tapas - the bodily tapas, the tapas of the speech, and the tapas of the mind.            Bodily tapas is maintaining physical hygiene, avoiding lethargy, having control over the five senses, etc. You may want to watch the television, but you do not. You are not hungry and you just do not eat even if you want to. Physical tapas is maintaining personal hygiene and continence, remaining in the Self and having a control over the senses and the body.            And then, there is tapas of the speech. This is saying only such things that do not distress people - speaking the truth and speaking the pl...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 7🌀                ~ Kriya Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 56🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 There are three types of tapas - sattvic, rajasic and tamasic.            Sattvic tapas is one in which you are not even aware that you are doing it. You are just part of the phenomenon. The world today is a phenomenon and you are just a part of that phenomenon. Where do you exist? There may be so many waves or ripples in a lake but it is ridiculous if each one of them thinks that it is existing as a wave. When a wind blows, so many waves arises, and they all subside a little later. And one wave calls itself Jyothi, another is Michel, and there would be others - David, Dev and Lillian. Those limited waves have been given different names. And all these waves...

Common name: Tiger Grass, Asian broom grass, Bamboo grass • Hindi: Naktura Botanical name: Thysanolaena latifolia Family: Poaceae (Grass family) Location:-HP, Chamba DOC:-14/02/2022 Occurence:-Upto 1800meter Flowering:-March-june Synonyms: Thysanolaena maxima, Agrostis maxima, Melica latifolia, Thysanolaena agrostis Tiger Grass is a bamboo like perennial grass, growing up to 2 m tall, forming large clumps. The large leaves are up to 7 cm wide - they are used to wrap food for steaming in some parts. Flowers occur in minute spikelets, in large branched clusters. The flower stems are tied together and used as brooms. Tiger Grass is found throughout India. From @ Gajendra Varma

Common name: Himalayan Holly Botanical name: Ilex dipyrena     Family: Aquifoliaceae (Holly family) Synonyms: Ilex dentonii Location-HP Chamba DOC:-12/02/2021 Occurence:-1500-3000Meter Flowering:-April-July Himalayan Holly is a moderate-sized evergreen tree with light gray smooth bark, and with dark glossy green, very leathery, elliptic leaves with strong thorny teeth on the margins. Flowers are greenish-white, about 6 mm across, in small rounded stalkless clusters in leaf axils, about 1 cm. Flowers have 4 obovate petals. Leaves are 5-10 cm long, paler beneath, spineless on older trees. Fruit is red when ripe, spherical, 6 mm across. The fruits are ripe in December, and the holly-like spiny and tough leaves with attractive red berries are often sold as Christmas decorations. Himalayan Holly is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to SW China. From @ Gajendra Varma

Common name: Prickly Chaff Flower,  Chaff-flower, Crocus stuff, Crokars staff, Hindi: चिरचिटा Chirchita, लटजीरा Latjira,Sanskrit: अपामार्ग Apamarga Vernacular name:-Puthkanda Botanical name: Achyranthes aspera     Family:Amaranthaceae  Location:-HP, Chamba, From @ Gajendra Varma

Cenchurus spp.:- Fountain Grass Family:-Poaceae Location-HP Chamba From @ Gajendra Varma

Common name: Indian Bay Leaf, Indian cassia, Indian cassia bark, Tamala cassia • Hindi: तेजपत्ता tejpatta,Sanskrit: तमालपत्र tamalapattra. Vernacular name:-Gudpatri,madhupatri Botanical name: Cinnamomum tamala Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family) Synonyms: Cinnamomum tejpata, Laurus tamala Location-HP Chamba DOC:-12/02/2021 Indian bay-leaves are the leaves of a tree closely related to Cinnamon. The tough, three-veined leaves are very popular in Northern India, but are little known elsewhere — at least, today. They were well known to the Romans under the name malobathrum (also spelt malabathrum) and used both for perfumery and in cooking. The name Bay Leaf is used for some other plant (Laurus nobilis). So, this one is called Indian Bay Leaf. It is a small to moderately sized ever green tree. Plants are raised from seeds sown in nursery beds in March-April. Seedlings are transplanted to the field in rows of 2 m apart with a spacing of 3 – 3.5 m between plants. Leaves are coll...

Common name: Date Plum, Caucasian persimmon, Lilac persimmon • Hindi: Amlok Botanical name: Diospyros lotus    Family: Ebenaceae (Ebony family) Location-HP Chamba,(Sahoo) DOC:-09/2021 Occurence:-500-2500meter Flowering:-May-June Synonyms: Diospyros calycina, Diospyros umlovok, Diospyros mediterranea Date Plum is a deciduous tree with bark grayish black to grayish brown. Leaf-stalks are 0.7-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-oblong, 5-13 x 2.5-6 cm, somewhat membranous, below drying green or glaucous and with dark veinlets, base blunt, broadly wedge-shaped, or nearly rounded, tip tapering to pointed, lateral veins 7-10 per side, netveined veinlets clearly defined, flat, and dark. Male flowers are borne 1-3 together; flower-stalks up to 6 mm; sepals 4 or 5; flowers reddish to pale yellow, urn-shaped, about 4 mm, petals 4; stamens 16. Female flowers are nearly stalkless, pale green to reddish; sepals 4; flowers urn-shaped, about 6 mm, petals 4 or rarely 5; staminode...

Common name: Curry Leaf • Hindi: Kari patta करी पत्ता,Sanskrit: कालशाकः Kalashaka Botanical name: Bergera koenigii Family: Rutaceae (Lemon family) Location:-Himachal Pradesh, Chamba (Udaipur forest nursery) DOC:-17/04/2022 Synonyms: Murraya koenigii, Chalcas koenigii Curry Leaf tree is a small or medium sized tree, most famous for its aromatic leaves that provide curry spice. Curry leaves are extensively used in Southern India and Sri Lanka (and are absolutely necessary for the authentic flavour), but are also of some importance in Northern India. It is a small tree, growing 4-6 m tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter. The leaves are pinnate, with 11-21 leaflets, each leaflet 2-4 cm long and 1-2 cm broad. They are highly aromatic. The flowers are small white, and fragrant. The small black, shiny berries are edible, but their seeds are poisonous. Together with South Indian immigrants, curry leaves reached Malaysia, South Africa and Réunion island. When cooking, the leav...

Common name: Black Cutch Tree, black catechu, Cutch tree, cashoo, catechu, wadalee gum Hindi: दन्त धावन dant-dhavan, Vernacular name:-Kher Botanical name: Senegalia catechu Family: Mimosaceae (Touch-me-not family) Location:-Himachal Pradesh,Chamba(Katoribangla) DOC:-06/2022 Synonyms: Acacia catechu, Mimosa catechu, Acacia wallichiana Black Cutch tree is a small tree, growing 3-15 m high. The stem is dark brown to black, with rough bark which peels off in long strips in mature trees; young trees have corky bark. The fern-like leaves are 100-200 mm long and contain between 8 and 30 pairs of small leaves made up of numerous, oblong pairs of secondary leaflets 2-6 mm long. Glands occur on the stem below the first pair of leaves, and between the uppermost six pairs of leaves. Pairs of stout thorns up to 10 mm long are found at the base of each leaf. The flowers are white or pale yellow, about 3 mm long and bunched tightly together to form a cylindrical flower spike, 35-75 mm ...

Common name: Amaltas, Golden shower tree, Indian Laburnum • Hindi: अमलतास Amaltas ,Sanskrit: आरग्वधः Aaragvadh, राजवृक्षः Raajavriksha शम्पाकः Shampaak, चतुरङ्गुलः Chaturangul Botanical name: Cassia fistula Location:-Himachal Pradesh, Chamba (Katoribangla) DOC:-06/2022 Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family) This native of India, commonly known as Amaltaas, is one of the most beautiful of all tropical trees when it sheds its leaves and bursts into a mass of long, grape-bunches like yellow gold flowers. A tropical ornamental tree with a trunck consisting of hard reddish wood, growing up to 40 feet tall. The wood is hard and heavy; it is used for cabinet, inlay work, etc. It has showy racemes, up to 2" long, with bright, yellow, fragrant flowers. These flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies. The fruits are dark-brown cylindrical pods, also 2' long, which also hold the flattish, brown seeds (up to 100 in one pod) These seeds are in cells, each containing a s...

Common name: Many-Flowered Litsea • Hindi: Meda, Gwa, Singraf, Katmarra, Jangli-rai-am Botanical name: Litsea monopetala Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family) ID Coursity:- Ashutosh Sharma  Location -Himachal Pradesh, Chamba DOC:-03/2022 Synonyms: Litsea polyantha, Tetranthera monopetala, Tetranthera alnoides Many-Flowered Litsea is a small tree up to 18 m tall, with a straight to crooked trunk, up to 60 cm in diameter. Bark is longitudinally fissured, dark greyish, inner bark brown mottled. Alternately arranged elliptic leaves, 4.5-17 cm x 2.5-10 cm, are pointed or blunt, smooth above, sparsely hairy below. The midrib is sunken above, with 6-13 pairs of secondary veins which are sunken above. Leaf stalk is about 1-2.5 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne in stalked umbellets in short racemes, with 6 tepals and 9-12 stamens. Fruit is oblong to ellipsoid, 0.7-1.2 cm long, seated on a small flat perianth cup. Many-Flowered Litsea is found in the Himalayas, from E Pakistan, Ku...

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

Clitoria ternatea   L Family: Fabaceae Trivandrum Kerala India  Butterfly pea Shamghupushpam, Medicinaly very useful Plant From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

Calotropis gigantea (L.) Dryand. Family: Apocynaceae Trivandrum Kerala India  Malayalam Name: Erikku, Medicinaly very useful Plant Buds &Flowers From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

From @ Prabhavathy Ramkumar

On 9th February 2020, I had to attend the Famdent dental conference which was held in auto cluster exhibition centre in chinchwad near pune. As usual my dad who is 70+ was also accompanying me. I had planned this travel one month in advance and booked railway tickets too and fro from kalyan to chinchwad as my dad prefers train travel. I like to plan my travel in detail and took printout of the tickets in advance so that even if my mobile battery goes low I will have the tickets. Now comes the Guru surprise. The conference was till 6pm and it was great expo, I had a great experience and by 4pm I had all the materials I had wanted to buy met all those whom I had intended to meet got new connections and was very happy and contended so I decided to leave early at 4 pm and came out of the venue and my dad said we will go to the railway station and rest till 6:30pm till the train comes. Just as we came out and were looking for an auto Mr Veeresh who met me after a long time came ...

Question - Gurudev, why is that people who do wrong move ahead freely most of the times while we also see people who do right but still suffer. Why is it so? Can you please throw some light on this phenomenon? Gurudev Sri Sri - You think that the people who do something wrong progress in life. But haven’t you noticed the downfall these people face afterwards? There was a man named Madoff in America. People from all over the whole world were crazy to have a photograph with him. Now he is in jail. His own son revealed his scandal. So whoever attains success with unfair means will definitely fall down. There are many examples like this.If you are suffering that is not because you are good, but it may be due to a lack in skillfulness. We need four things in life - power, skill, devotion and liberation. (Shakti, Yukti, Bhakti and Mukti). You cannot be successful in society without power and skillfulness. And you cannot be successful in life without devotion and liberation. So yo...

Shiv Sutra_1.7 ज्ञानं बन्धः। ज्ञान ही बंधन है। इससे छुटकारा कैसे पाएं? ... अगला सूत्र है... योनिवर्गः कलाशरीरम्। ये पूरी दुनिया मे जो अलग अलग योनि है, अलग अलग शरीर है, वह एक ही चेतना का अलग अलग अभिव्यक्ति है, और तुम्हारा शरीर इसका ही अंग है। यह शरीर इसी मिट्टी से, अनाज से, हवा से, पानी से बना हुवा है और इसी में मिल जाएगा, यही रह जायेगा.... तो इसके साथ एकता महसूस करो...यही ध्यान है। अगर आपको इस जड़ता से अलग महसूस करना हो, तो आप जड़ नही हो, मैं चैतन्य हूँ... ऐसा सोचना पड़ेगा। इसलिए अगर आपकी चेतना इस जड़ शरीर से अलग है ऐसा समझने के लिए इसके साथ एक हो के देखो। योगनिद्रा में शरीर के एक एक भाग पर मन को ले जाते है उसके बाद शरीर और मन मे जो पार्थक्य है, भेद है वह समझ मे आने लगता है। _ (Shiv Sutra_1.7)_ Gyanam Bandha:. Knowledge is binding. How to get rid of it? ... The next sutra is ... Vaghanavarga: Kalashriram. In this whole world, which is a different vagina, has a different body, it is a different manifestation of the same consciousness, and your body is its part. This body is made...