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RECONSTRUCTION: RSS Swayamsevaks involved

RECONSTRUCTION: RSS Swayamsevaks involved in multi-dimensional post-flood relief works. A team of  ‎# RSS  Swayamsevaks indulged in reconstruction of of village school, small hospital, small temples in  ‎# Uttarakhand .

Who is Lord Vishnu?

Who is Lord Vishnu? Second in Trinity Series... The peace-loving deity of the Hindu Trinity, Vishnu is the Preserver or Sustainer of life with his steadfast principles of order, righteousness and truth. When these values are under threat, Vishnu emerges out of his transcendence to restore peace and order on earth. The 10 Avatars: Lord Vishnu’s earthly incarnations have many avatars. His ten avatars are  1. Matsyavatara 2. Koorma 3. Varaaha 4. Narasimha 5. Vaamana 6. Parasurama 7. Lord Rama 8. Lord Krishna 9. Buddha and the yet to appear 10th incarnation called the Kalki avatar. In his commonest form, Vishnu is portrayed as having a dark complexion – the color of passive and formless ether, and with four hands. Why Vishnu has four arms? -  http://tinyurl.com/l8vu3d6 Sankha, Chakra, Gada, Padma: On one of the backhands he holds the milky white conch shell or ‘sankha’ that spreads the primordial sound of Om, and on the other a discuss or ‘chakra’ - a reminder of the cycle of

Are you a born Yogi trying to remember?

Are you a born Yogi trying to remember? The only beings (other than liberated souls) that are in harmony with themselves, i.e they are at home anywhere and don’t care who is watching, are babies and children. And yoga naturally manifests in their supple bodies. It is quite common to observe children performing yoga asanas or yoga mudras that support their physical and mental development.  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says children are born yogis. “There is a talk that Guruji gives  about how children perform different asanas at different stages of their development. For instance, when they are learning to walk, they do the cat stretch to strengthen their spines or perform the Pavanamuktasan to boost digestion,” explains Dinesh Kashikar, faculty at Sri Sri Yoga and the Art of Living Foundation. If as children, we are born yogis and perform yoga naturally, then why do we forget the practice and lose flexibility as we grow up? “The main reason is that their interactions with their environment,