Yoga and Compassion

Comment

Comment by Sandra Reis on March 7, 2009 at 2:00pm

A tribute to all women for March 8
Namaste

Love gives you power to merge,
From finite to infinity.
Love gives you power to trust,
From nothing to everything.

Love gives you power, the powerful prayer
Between you and your creator.
Love gives you vastness,
As vast as there can be.

Love gives you the hold, the experience,
And the touch with your own infinity,
As beautiful, bountiful and blissful as there can be.

~Yogi Bhajan

Comment by Sandra Reis on March 4, 2009 at 7:08pm

art by Gosia Janik

Yoga pose - URDHVA DHANURASANA (upward bow or wheel pose)

Comment by Sandra Reis on March 3, 2009 at 9:41pm

Wellcome aboard dear friend Ashok, hope see you allways here, sharing our thoughs!

love, light and peace

Comment by ashok kumar on March 3, 2009 at 9:37pm

Hi Sandra,
Thanks for your invitation to this group. Wishes !
ashok

Comment by Sandra Reis on March 1, 2009 at 2:40pm

Allways!!!

Comment by Sandra Reis on February 26, 2009 at 4:27pm

BKS Iyengar, the Gurujii, doing Yoga. Looks so easy....

Comment by maryse on February 24, 2009 at 6:01pm

om namaya shiva

Comment by Sandra Reis on February 24, 2009 at 3:41pm

Om Namah Shivaya

Namaste

Comment by Sandra Reis on February 21, 2009 at 1:11pm

Mahashivaratri (also called Shiva Ratri) is the Great Festival of Shiva. It is held on the 14th day of the dark half of the lunar month of Phalguna, which falls on February 23, 2009. Mahashivaratri is especially important to Saivites (devotees of Shiva), but it is celebrated by most Hindus.

The day of Mahashivaratri is spent in meditation on Shiva and fasting (some may take water or fruit). Temples dedicated to Shiva are filled with devotees offering prayers. The Shiva linga at the temple or in one's home is bathed with milk, honey and water, and offerings are made to Shiva in the form of Bilva leaves, fruits, and other specially prepared foods. Offering Bilva leaves to Shiva on Mahashivaratri is considered especially auspicious.

Devotees sing hymns and chant mantras, especially Om namah Shivaya. Some sit around a sacred fire and toss offerings of grain into the flames while chanting to Shiva. After fasting and meditating throughout the day, a vigil is held all night with continued prayers and meditation.

Various legends are associated with the holiday of Mahashivaratri. One is the popular legend of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, in which the gods inadvertantly unearthed a poison that threatened to destroy the world. Shiva saved the day by drinking the poison, which accounts for his blue throat in some Hindu art.

It is said that Shiva was strong enough to handle the poison, but he had to stay awake all night as part of his healing. The other gods helped get him through the night by entertaining him with dances and other distractions. This is commemorated on Mahashivaratri, when Shiva's followers keep him company through the night.

Another legend tells the story of a hunter who climbed a Bilva tree to escape a hungry lion. The lion sat down beneath the tree and waited for the hunter to fall. As he waited in the tree all night, the hunter plucked leaves from the Bilva tree to stay awake. The leaves, which are sacred to Shiva, fell on a Shiva linga that happened to be at the base of the tree. Shiva was pleased by the offering, inadvertant though it was, and saved the hunter. This event is commemorated on Mahashivaratri by staying up all night and offering Bilva leaves.

Comment by Mani kutty on February 9, 2009 at 5:14pm

Hallo Mariangela,
Excellent and manythanks for quoting Gayatri Mantra. It is a very important mantra for us and we have to say the mantra atleast 108 times a day.In the words of Bhagavan Satya Sai Baba,if you meditate on it, it will save you from being caught up in the coils of this worly life, which is infested with death,grief and pain.This prayer also fosters and sharpens the knowledge-yielding faculty.

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• …
• 12
• Next ›
• Page