Spirituality Magazine Issue 3, Jun 20, 2020 EN Edition

Announcements Management & Leadership Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Editorial Note: Spirituality, Management and Society, Issue 3 – Yoga

Download Issue 3, June 2020: English Edition ; Dutch Edition Dear all We are happy to share with you our third issue of OM RISE Magazine. We are delighted to inform you that the content of this magazine is now available online at: https://magazine.omrise.org For this issue we have chosen the theme of Yoga to celebrate World Yoga Day. […]

Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga

According to Sri Aurobindo, in order to get through the crisis of mankind, humanity, at least a critical mass of it, must undergo a transformation. This process will ultimately result in a new supramental species. In the Indian history of Yoga, there have been four great syntheses before: the Vedic, the Upanishadic, the synthesis in […]

Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Yoga – A Healing Connection: About Restraint and Freedom

The self-existent created the senses outward: therefore, one sees outside and not the âtman within. A wise person, with his senses turned away, (from their object), desirous of immortality, sees the âtman within (Kaṭha Upaniṣad, II, 1.1). Birth is the first big movement out. Out of the darkness you are ‘thrown’ into the light of […]

Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Looking beyond daily reality

This Upaniṣad invites us to look beyond our daily reality as revealed by our senses and our mind. Our real truth lies beyond speech and imagination. But this truth is what connects us to the rest of the cosmos. Kena Upaniṣad I: 1-5 केनेषितं पतति प्रेषितं मनः केन प्राणः प्रथमः प्रैति युक्तः । केनेषितां वाचमिमां […]

Management & Leadership Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Inspired Leadership in Times of Crisis: Gandhi’s Secret

Yoga means uniting of the individual self, your superficial or fake self, with the universal or supreme Self, your deepest Self. The Gītā calls this ‘the ultimate secret of Yoga Part 2 – Towards a balance between creation and destruction In the Bhagavad-gītā two opposing armies stand poised in the battlefield to settle a dramatic […]

Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Awareness: a Gateway to Calmness, Happiness, Creativity

“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are”. The concept of steadying the mind, presented by the ancient teachers of Yoga has been implemented by various schools of Yoga/ādhyātma as ‘Awareness’ with overlapping concepts such as, ‘Self-Observation’ or ‘Ātma-darśana’. In this article we shall discuss the concept […]

Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Yoga and Hindu Spiritual Care, Dutch Ministry of Defense

“When they experience that they get over the obstacle course more easily after practicing Yoga, nobody says that Yoga is a waste of time anymore”. In 2003, the Hindu Spiritual Care (in Dutch: HinGV) was established at the Dutch defense forces, with Yoga and Spirituality as one of its aspects. Lead pandit and spiritual counselor […]

Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

The interplay of Jñāna, Karma and Bhakti

The following verses are from the Bhagavad Gītā: B.G. 3.3 श्रीभगवानुवाच |लोकेऽस्मिन्द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मयानघ |ज्ञानयोगेन साङ्ख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम् || 3|| śhrī bhagavān uvāchaloke ’smin dvi-vidhā niṣhṭhā purā proktā mayānaghajñāna-yogena Sāṃkhyānāṁ karma-yogena yoginām O sinless Arjuna, in this world to achieve equanimity a twofold path has been enunciated by Me before, the path of […]