Imagine a traditional doctor of bygone times, always ready with a little black bag of remedies. This image, in essence, mirrors the role of a Sadhu, traversing paths, providing guidance, …

There's a lot of death awareness among people in palliative care. Palliative care means end-of-life care. When people receive a notice, they have a prognosis. Prognosis means how long you …

There is a comedian I used to like, called Steven Wright, and he had a joke. He said once, “I heard that you don't know what you got till it's …

It is not that we are a body or an entity and then we get a spirit, or we have a soul. We are the soul. We are spiritual beings, …

How we carry ourselves in life and the direction we decide to go depends on the song we keep in our hearts. The body is like a chariot, and the …

Where do desires come from? We have a subconscious mind. The Yoga-sūtras are the psychology of yoga that describes the mind; called the Chitta. Our subtle body, or subtle material body, …

Patañjali, the author of yoga-sutras, describes in the psychology of yoga the five kleśas, or the sufferings within the mind, and identifies the causes. Here they are in broad categories: …

To focus our attention, the yoga wisdom texts recommend the process of mantra meditation—fixing one’s mind on a kind of potent sound. Authentic metaphysical sound vibrations may seem like any …

This universe is designed for learning, not comfort. We are subtle spiritual beings ensconced in a material world with which we are incompatible. As oil and water never mix, similarly …