My Musings

  Meditation is a over hyped word. Many people confuse it with sitting in silence. The fact is, it is much more than that. It helps in realizing your full potential. If done correctly for a long period of time, it can even lead to self realization.  But many people don't know as to where to start or how to do it correctly. Human mind can produce more than 6000 thoughts per day. It is difficult to control the thought process. Also, people don't know what is the correct posture. This is where the book "A Million Thoughts" by OM SWAMI comes in handy. The author speaks form his own experience of having meditated for thousands of hours. It begins with explaining the nature of thoughts. It then moves on to explaining what meditation is and what meditation is not. It talks about six principles of meditation that help one to become a better meditator. It explains the elements of good meditation and different types of meditation. It also explains about the problems one may enc...

  In these corona times , we have woken up to the importance of our health . We see the term "immunity" in most of the advertisements of eatables on tv. But no one guides us as to what should we eat according to our body requirements.  "The Wellness Sense" by Om Swami , helps us to understand the basics of our diet from yogic as well as ayurvedic perspective. It is full of yogic and ayurvedic wisdom.   It starts with explaining about our body's nature or "prakriti" as is known in Sanskrit. It then moves on to talk about our mental constitution. Yes, just like body is made up of different types of elements , so is the mental constitution. It further explains about different types of food and their effects on the body. The best part about the book is the information that it gives about mental constitution and the ways to improve it. This is rare knowledge and generally people don't discuss about the effects of food on our mental constitution. It talk...

As corona is spreading, it is causing world wide deaths and destruction. We see news about corona deaths and feel low. It has also led to lockdowns and people are scared to come out of houses and socialize. All this has led to increase in cases of depression in current world.  Depression is a medical condition. It is marked by loss of interest in daily activities. It can range from being mild to being severe. It can lead to other physical ailments also. In severe cases, it can also turn suicidal. When All is not well by Om Swami is a self help book that talks about Depression at length. It talks about three different types of depression and the various approaches that are needed to deal with them. It is full of ayurvedic and yogic wisdom. It talks about various case histories of different patients suffering from three different types of depression and how he provided healing to them.  It teaches you physical, mental and emotional healing because according to Om Swami, the ill...