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Restoring Your Health

By Bhaavin Shah
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Feb 16, 2014
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Healing

What is healing?

Health is the condition of being healed. Healing is to pursue health. The word ‘heal’ has its origins in the word ‘whole’. Healing is to make whole. This is the original and unadulterated meaning of the word ‘healing’.

What is now understood as healing?

However, over the years, the word healing has developed some karma, it now gets its meaning only when juxtaposed with a disease, it has come to be believed as ‘setting right that which is broken’, as ‘setting ourselves right’. In the rest of this article, I shall refer to this connotation of the word.

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Breath, My Bride

By Bhaavin Shah
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Jan 18, 2014
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Healing, Quality of life

As somebody who is a passionate breathworker, today I wish to sing the glory of breath -‐ my divine companion. Few know that in spirituality, while mind is referred to as a man, breath is known to be a maiden and a very faithful one at that. Keep Reading

On Money and Its Grip On Us

When it comes to money, there is more than what meets the eye. It’s not just printed notes or zeroes and ones in a computers records. It is a loaded phenomenon, loaded with huge emotional overtones. Look at the contortions we experience when we give away big money or when we give away more money than what we feel a product or service is worth. Keep Reading

Understanding India – Part 1

By Bhaavin Shah
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Jul 28, 2013
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Quality of life, World Order

‘Chaos often breeds life while Order creates habit.’ This statement from the famous historian Henry Adams has a lot to tell. A few weeks back, on his return from Japan, Pujya Guruji Shree Rishi Prabhakar was sharing how the whole country appeared so morose as if it has gone into a mass mourning till date ever since the Hirosima episode.

He explained that this was simply because of too much order. Everything is right about Japan and that is the whole problem. When everything is right, the whole process becomes very mechanical, very robot-like.

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A journey to where you already are

By Bhaavin Shah
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Mar 29, 2013
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Quality of life

Guruji often says that a problem lies in identifying a life situation as a problem. Once you have identified it as a problem, there is nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, if you do anything about it, you will only mess it up further. Let us draw a parallel of this with one another Eastern mystic culture – Zen Buddhism.

In the Zen culture, when a new seeker comes in and asks the master – ‘Oh master, I seek to be enlightened, please guide me’, the master takes a baton and gives the fellow a hard knock on the head. The seeker more often than not gets the point and walks away. By itself, the master’s action defies our understanding. But hidden beneath is a very sound logic.

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