Friday, 17. February 2006
Discover Ayurveda

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Ayurveda is the oldest surviving complete medical system in the world. Derived from its ancient Sanskrit roots - ‘ayus' (life) and ‘ved' (knowledge) – and offering a rich, comprehensive outlook to a healthy life, its origins go back nearly 5000 years. To when it was expounded and practiced by the same spiritual rishis, who laid the foundations of the Vedic civilisation in India, by organising the fundamentals of life into proper systems.

The main source of knowledge in this field therefore remain the Vedas, the divine books of knowledge they propounded, and more specifically the fourth of the series, namely Atharvaveda that dates back to around 1000 BC. Of the few other treatises on Ayurveda that have survived from around the same time, the most famous are Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita which concentrate on internal medicine and surgery respectively. The Astanga Hridayam is a more concise compilation of earlier texts that was created about a thousand years ago. These between them forming a greater part of the knowledge base on Ayurveda as it is practiced today.

The art of Ayurveda had spread around in the 6th century BC to Tibet, China, Mongolia, Korea and Sri Lanka, carried over by the Buddhist monks travelling to those lands. Although not much of it survives in original form, its effects can be seen in the various new age concepts that have originated from there.


Discover Ayurveda (English)
A great portal on Ayurveda
Category: Body & Health |




Quiz: What religion do you fit in with?

You fit in with:
Taoism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Taoist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life.

60% spiritual.
20% reason-oriented.

What religion do you fit in with? (English)

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Category: Games & Humor |




Hinduism Today Magazine

Today I bring you the Hinduism Today Magazine (English)

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As the new millennium approaches, the world's oldest religions is donning shining new clothes. The age-old Hindu philosophy passed from mouth to mouth in tiny villages across India is now going high-tech, thanks to Hinduism Today, the preeminent global journal of Hindu Dharma. This Hawaii-based publication is shedding its broadsheet image after 18 years and transforming into a sleek, easy-to-carry, full-color magazine. Its on-line version is not quite as eye-catching but will bring every aspect of Sanatana Dharma to millions of Internet users across the world. Hinduism, which had always been the domain of unchanging swamis in far-off ashrams, is now entering the


computer age with Hinduism Today. Founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramaniyaswami and published by the Himalayan Academy on the idyllic island of Kauai in Hawaii, the magazine is totally service oriented.

Get your free reading in the Digital Edition, Jan/Feb/Mar, 2006. Full color PDFs.

Previous HTML issues can be found on the archive page.
Category: Books & Magazines |


Hot News or Hoax?

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Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now by The Times. (English)
An apocalyptic vision of life 1,000 years from now has been painted by a team of scientists studying the effect of global warming.

The origin of life - In the beginning... by The Economist. (English)
How life on Earth got going is still mysterious, but not for want of ideas.

Ex-Beatles Guru Aims at Bigger Goals by The Jamaica Observer. (English)
At his age - believed to be 89 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has no interest in dwelling on the halcyon days of the 1960s and '70s when he was guru to the Beatles and the Beach Boys and his Transcendental Meditation movement was the new buzz on college campuses.

Spooky action and beyond by Sign & Sight. (English)
Viennese physician Anton Zeilinger talks about teleportation, the information stored in a human being and freedom in physics.

Same story in German: Nicht mal Gott weiss, wie es ausgeht von der Weltwoche. (German)
Der Wiener Physiker Anton Zeilinger denkt über Dinge nach, die er sich eigentlich nicht vorstellen kann. Es geht darum, in vielleicht tausend Jahren eine Kaffeetasse zu teleportieren – ohne dass dabei der Henkel auf der Strecke bleibt.

Spaceships of the future by Pravda. (English)
Humans can build spaceships capable of reaching the Moon within minutes; a flight to Mars will take 2.5 hours, and a flight to Alpha Centauri, which is scores of light years away from Earth, will take a mere 80 days.

Some news-links do not last long. In this case please send me a note.
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