Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Chapter 7 - Kriya Yoga  Day 53  The third type of fire is called Jataraagni - the fire of hunger and digestion. This is one of the important principles in Ayurveda - Jataraagni. If the fire of digestion is less or more, it affects your health and your balance. When there is fever, we just treat the symptoms. We do not understand the principles involved.  When a foreign body enters your body, it turns up the heat and there is fever. During a fever, your body is operating its defence mechanism. It is burning up all the foreign bacteria and viruses that have entered it. As soon as they are destroyed, the fever comes down. It purifies the system by getting rid of the foreign matter. Jataraagni - fire of digestion. You don't even allow hunger to come up in you. You keep stuffing things into yourself even before you are hungry. This makes you more toxic and your body is affected. Many people get disease or die because of overeating and not of hunger. Nowadays, very ...

Chapter 7 - Kriya Yoga  Day 52  Fire sustains life. There are five types of fire. One is Bhootaagni. Bhootaagni is the fire with which you heat your homes and keep yourself warm. This physical fire sustains life. It may not be so obvious in tropical countries. They don't give much importance to fire. But, it is very important in cold countries. Without physical fire, life extinguished. And this physical fire is present in the body to some extent. And then, there is the second type is fire which is called Kaamaagni. This is the fire of desire, lust or passion. This fire will engulf you. Life continues on this planet because of this fire. The fire of passion is present in all he species of creation. Now, you do not even allow this fire of passion to come up in you. The moment there is a desire, you fulfill it.  Then that desire does not stay in you, it doesn't burn you up. People who are very promiscuous have no kaamaagni. This is because they do not even allow ...

Chapter 7 - Kriya Yoga  Day 51  Kriya Yoga, the Yoga of action has three parts. The first is tapaha. Tapas is endurance and acceptance. You may be taking a long flight. You may be sitting in your seat and your legs would be getting numb. You may be feeling tired and heavy but you keep sitting.  You cannot say that you will not sit anymore and that you will get out of the plane. If the plane is delayed or held up in the air, you just have to continue to be on it. There is no choice for you. Now, if you had a choice, you would not sit in one place for eight hours the way you sit on a long flight.  But in a plane you accept the inevitable and sit - willingly and without grumbling. This is tapaha. Tapaha is experiencing the opposite values, willingly and without grumbling. You may be driving to some place at night. You are feeling sleepy as it is the time to sleep. But, you do not park somewhere and sleep.  Of course, you may do this if the sleep is too ...