108 Upanishads in 4 Vedas

 


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Golwalkar Mission of Hindu Rashtra

Golwalkar's View on Territorial Nationalism

Golwalkar was of the view that territorial nationalism was inadequate to define nationhood. Regarding territorial nationalism, he narrated a telling example: once in the Zoology department of a college, the students planned to crack a joke with their old professor. They removed the legs of a water bug and joined the legs of another species to it. They brought it to their professor and asked him in a puzzled tone, “Sir, we could not make out what this is. What new type of bug is it”? The old professor examined it under a microscope and remarked gravely, “How is it, boys, you do not know such a simple common bug as this? The name of this bug is ‘humbug’.” Golwalkar opined: “It is this ‘humbug’ type of nationalism that was vivified. Such a nation cannot be a living body and so it is that we see today, the germs of corruption, disintegration and dissipation, eating into the vitals of our nation for having given up the natural living nationalism in the pursuit of an unnatural, unscientific ...
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SHAKTI CHALANA MUDRA (Attitude of Moving the Energy) of Hath Yoga

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 SHAKTI CHALANA MUDRA  (Attitude of Moving the Energy) Breathing in through the right nostril (pingala) the serpent (shakti) shouldbe seized through kumbhaka and rotated constantly for an hour and a half, morning and evening. The kanda, situated above the anus, one hand span high and four fingers breath wide, is soft and white as if enveloped in cloth. Firmly seated in vajrasana, holding the ankles, one should squeeze the kanda close to the anus. In the position of vajrasana, the yogi should move the kundalini. Havingdone bhastrika pranayama the kundalini is soon aroused. Contracting the sun in manipura, kundalini should be moved. Even if sucha person should be on the verge of death, where is the need to fear death? (112-16). Shakti Chalana Mudra describes the final stage of Hatha Yoga, often referred to as Kundalini Yoga. The term may be translated as the loosening of the power latent in one’s innate nature by means of a sealed path. This indicates that the process does not d...
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Nirvikalpa Samādhi (Samādhi without Distinctions)

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  Nirvikalpa Samādhi (Samādhi without Distinctions)  Nirvikalpa Samādhi (Samādhi without distinctions or without mental modifications) is a profound meditative state described in yogic and Vedantic traditions as the highest form of absorption, where the mind becomes completely still, all dualistic thoughts, concepts, and mental fluctuations (vṛttis) cease, and consciousness rests in pure, non-dual awareness. Etymology  Meaning Nir  = without, beyond. Vikalpa  = distinction, differentiation, thought-construction, imagination, or mental modification. Samādhi  = complete absorption, integration, or union (from sam + ā + dhā, "to put together completely"). In this state, the usual division between knower, known, and knowing collapses. There is no subject-object duality, no egoic "I," no perception of the world or body as separate, and often no recording of the experience in ordinary memory (similar to deep sleep but with full awareness of pure existence/consci...
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