Category: Learn from India
-
Nine ways to improve your meditation
Meditation is the base of all yoga and mindfulness practice. It is the only vehicle that will bring you to higher realms and pure consciousness. With meditation we still the mind so that we can travel in between thoughts to our atma or soul. This way we are connected to the higher energy of love…
-
Become pure with the Yoga Sutras and karma yoga
The Yoga Sutras are 195 sutras or aphorisms which contain the theory of Yoga which is developed thousands of years ago by Lord Shiv and later systemised by different sages amongst them Patanjali who is considered the author of the Yoga Sutras. These 195 Sutras are divided into four chapters or books: Samadhi Pada, Sadhana…
-
The love of sound
Our fourth published book ‘Love of Sound’ or in Dutch ‘Liefde van klank’, about the mysterious healing effect of music, chanting and sound. Dhroeh opens the book of some mystic Indian ancient secrets concerning humanity, our existence and the loving effect of sound. It explains the connection of mantra chanting and the path of yoga…
-
Don’t forget to forgive
During the proces of jnana, karma and bhakti yoga we clean ourselves from negative energy that came into our own energy with for example past events. In my own case I have been maltreated by men in the past, many times, taking advantage of my goodness and pureness. I only see love. Sometimes, when someone…
-
Locked
Once in my life, I had this crazy idea to lock myself in my house for a whole year. So I did. It was easy, I only left the house to go the market place once a week to buy some food. I think I entered a shop one time that year. I was inside…
-
Navratri is a special time for every woman
Of course Navratri is seen as a hindu celebration. Of course. And that is true. But what we celebrate comes from ancient texts of a time before Hinduism even existed. It is for every woman in the universe. What we celebrate is Divine female energy, our Source. We all came from the same womb of…
-
Is God female?
We are so used to say ‘He’ or ‘Him’ when we talk about a higher consciousness, the higher intelligence or God. But is God male? Or is ‘he’ female? When we go back to very ancient spiritual texts, we can see that there is no difference between what we call ‘him’: God, the Creator or…
-
New moon: mind at rest & easy meditation
Today is New Moon and this means that meditation is going easy, lightly and deep. We can go into a fast samadhi because of the small moon. Why is this? Mind is moon. In vedic texts the Moon God is representing the mind. We are all connected with energy; what is taking place in cosmos…
-
Corona: nature as our only back up
Since there is no cure in the form of a medicine or vaccin against the corona virus yet, the only thing we can do is fall back to nature and strengthen our immune system. Hippocrates, founder of modern medicine taught us that the only thing that can really heal us is being outside in nature,…