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https://epaper.prabhanews.com/c/39841778 Let the Heat Not Bother You… Celebrate Summer! In the Vedic almanac, summer is a time for happiness, abundance, and occasions. Trees are loaded down with fruits, vegetables and herbs are filling out the garden. Tall grasses grace fields, and children play outdoors on their summer vacations. Naturally, we experience fullness, contentment, and relaxation. Cultures all over the world celebrate summer by revering solar deities, rejoicing bountiful crops, feasting outdoors and commemorating their divine reunion with the earth. But with these beautiful extrinsic factors, one also need to achieve a sense of balance with some cooling activities to curtail the heat of the season internally. Consuming fluids are ‘a must’ as our bodies are generally depleted of them. This inturn, helps to replenish our system and help us feel cool. Walking barefoot on grass, preferably under trees is another good idea. The grass takes the mo...

https://epaper.prabhanews.com/c/39640952 The Art of Natya With The Artistry of Yog Mudras or we may say mystical positions of the hand serve to focus the mind and direct its power of attention. Hand mudras can be seen like hand mantras which pacify different facets, introducing different benefits, depending on what we specifically need. When practiced, a connection is developed with the patterns in the brain that influences the unconscious reflexes in the different areas. The internal energy is, in turn, equalised and redirected, creating an impact on the sensory organs, tendons and glands veins. Mudras have lived with us from thousands of years through gestures incorporated during worship and Sandhya Vandana but also through various Indian dance forms well equipped with silent eloquence of mudras. Interestingly, many yogic mudras when used in Indian classical dance forms, illustrates dancer’s “vocabulary” which are used to visually convey inner feelings as well as exte...

https://epaper.prabhanews.com/c/39411037 Space Surroundings All Creations By Shruti ChaturLal Sharma The science of mudras or hand gestures are based on the fundamental principles of life, namely the five elements – Ether, Air, Water, Earth and Fire and five pranas – Prana, Udana, Samana, Apana and Vyana and three doshas – Vata, Kapha and Pitta. Thus, the secret of good health depends of the balance of these elements within the body. The key to health and well-being is to keep our pranas in harmony. When one prana becomes imbalanced, others tend to become imbalanced as well. Thus, regular practice of mudras results in creating balance by activating blood circulation and transmission of energies through nerves. They balance the five elements, doshas and pranas: replacing one element with another, increasing or decreasing the proportion of an element within the body. Akash mudra counters deficiency of space in the body. This gives various benefits to h...