Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

In December 2009, I embarked on a journey that would forever change my life. Having been a part of the Art of Living community for just over four years,  I was eager to attend an advanced course in Rishikesh, in the divine presence of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Rishikesh’s serene and spiritual ambiance was the perfect backdrop for a spiritual sojourn. I arrived in Rishikesh a day before the course was set to begin, not only for the mandatory course registration but also because I held a deep desire to seek Gurudev’s blessings, even if it meant just catching a glimpse of Him. However, things didn’t go as planned. Gurudev was engaged in meetings, and I was informed that the chances of a darshan were slim since it was already past 10 PM. I felt a wave of disappointment, but I refused to give up. Wandering by the Ganges, I looked at Gurudev from a distance and silently wondered what it would take to meet Him that night. Tears welled up in my eyes as I yearned for this ch...

I’ve had several amazing experiences since Gurujis’ presence in my life. I ask a question in my mind and pat comes the answer. I’m out of town thinking of Him, and there He appears on some random channel, at some random time, while I’m flipping the channels. I cannot count these occasions – there are just so many. But there was one incident that really resonates in my heart, and truly makes me feel that while there is the Divine in everyone, Gurus like Sri Sri are drenched in the Divine spirit. A few years ago, my husband suffered from a sudden drop in potassium levels. He looked bloated, and so I took him to the hospital. He was admitted to the ICU and I was alone, sitting outside the ward. The doctor told me that I was lucky to have brought him in at this time because it could have led to a cardiac arrest otherwise. They needed to do an angiograph, they said. Maybe a block had to be removed. Now my husband has other health problems as well, so I prayed fervently that angioplasty was ...

– I live in America, and I have been facing a difficulty in breathing from my left nostril since 2 years now, and since last April, my left nostril was totally blocked. I couldn’t relate to what was happening, but in January 2014, my doctor said that it was not normal to have polyps in one nostril only, and it could be something really dangerous, like a type of benign tumour which in rarest cases, can be malignant too. I just could not believe it, as I have always been a healthy person. I became extremely restless and tensed due to this whole situation, but then I took to my last and final resort – I started doing my short Kriya, which I had not done since a long time, and contacted the Art of Living centre faculty in my area and started doing my long Kriya as well. As usual, the Art of Living teachers helped me in strongly facing my situation to a great extent. Meanwhile, I somehow felt very much at ease through this whole chaotic situation, as though there was divine intervention. I ...

आयुर्वेद –मीठ शेंदेलोण (सैंधव), पादेलोण, बीडलवण, सांबरलोण आणि दर्याई मीठ असे आयुर्वेदामध्ये मिठाचे पाच प्रकार सांगितले आहेत. शेंदेलोण (सैंधव), पादेलोण, बीडलवण, सांबरलोण आणि दर्याई मीठ असे आयुर्वेदामध्ये मिठाचे पाच प्रकार सांगितले आहेत. आयुर्वेदाच्या अनेक औषधांमध्ये सैंधव(मिठा)चा वापर करतात. स्वयंपाकघरात, तर कुठल्याच अन्नपदार्थाला मिठाशिवाय चव येत नाही. त्यामुळे अन्नपदार्थामध्ये याचे महत्त्वाचे स्थान आहे. परंतु याच्या अतिवापरामुळे विविध आजारांची लागण होऊन जीवन बेचव होऊ शकते, म्हणून सावध रीतीने मिठाचा आहारात वापर करावा. सैंधव मीठ हे खाणीतून मिळते. सैंधव हे आरोग्यास हितकारक व त्रिदोषशामक असते, म्हणून चरकाचार्य सैंधवाला सर्वात श्रेष्ठ लवण (मीठ) असे म्हणतात. आपल्या दैनंदिन स्वयंपाकघरातील वापरावयाचे मीठ हे सामान्यत: समुद्रातून मिळविलेले असते. डॉ. श्री .नितिन जाधव .संजीवन चिकित्सक. डोंबिवली. 9892306092. गुणधर्म मीठ हे अग्नी प्रदीप्त करणारे धातुवर्धक, कृमिनाशक, रुचीकारक बल्य असते. परंतु त्याचा वापर हा योग्य प्रमाणातच करावा. ते अजीर्ण, उदरशूळ (पोटदुखी) व गॅसेस या विकारांवर उपयुक्त अ...

My son is very sweet and creative. He has a rare combination of interests. He had completed his post- graduation in Design management in 2010 and searched for a job in the same field, but did not get it. So he started staying at home and doing something with software applications or watching some funny videos on YouTube on his computer. His sleeping and waking hours were abnormal (at least to me). He used to sleep at 3 or 4 in the night and mostly woke up at any time after 12 during day. Gradually he would not want to mix up even with his neighbours and this had become his routine. Following this he lost interest and didn’t want to study any further for any specialization.  Then slowly he started his own company, an online magazine for social issues. Though he was not a software professional, he learned everything himself that was related and necessary for his online website through web tutorials and through discussions with online friends and my husband (who is a computer professi...