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Sri Rama Chandra Kripalu Bhajmana by MS Subbulakshmi, video and lyrics

Yoga

This Sanskrit bhajan was written by Goswami Tulsidas, a famous writer-saint born in Rajapur in Uttar Pradesh in the 16th century. MS Subbulakshmi renders the soulful bhajan…
Tags: Bhakti-yoga, Goswami-Tulsidas, Rama, lyrics
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Born Free by Matt Monro, video and lyrics

Relax

Born Free is a movie about Elsa, a lioness and her owners’ attempt to teach her to live in the jungles of Kenya. They did not wish to send her to a zoo for a captive life. Born free. As free as the wind blows. As free as the grass grows. Born free to follow your heart...
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Pani ghat in January, Vrindavan Photo journal

Travel

Pani ghaton the banks of Yamuna in Vrindavan, is a little off the Parikrama marg near Tatiya sthan. Visitors to Devraha Baba Ashram, cross the river here to reach the ashram. The presence of Krishna in one’s consciousness is an inevitable experience in Vrindavan, especially in less frequented places like Pani ghat, Tatiya sthan and Devraha Baba ashram.
Tags: Photo-journal, India, Uttar-Pradesh, Vrindavan, Krishna, travelogue,
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How to become FREE

Yoga

More than this even, we must be free from death and to be free from death, we must be free from life. Life is but a dream of death. Where there is life, there will be death; so get away from life if you would be rid of death.
Tags: yoga, Swami-Vivekananda
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7 steps to releasing toxic emotions – Deepak Chopra

Yoga

What is anger? Remembered pain from the past. What is fear? Anticipation of pain in the future. What is guilt? Directing pain back at yourself. Depression is the depletion of energy that happens with all of the above.
Tags: yoga, Deepak-Chopra, self-improvement, mind, video, relax, mental-health
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Celebrating Basant Panchmi, a spring festival in Uttarkashi, India

Travel

Girls dress up for the occasion and pluck yellow flowers and decorate the main doors of the house with it welcoming the spring and the new sowing season. Soon the fields that have been lying barren for the past three month will be ringing with the sounds of the bells of the bulls and the cries of the farmer tilling the fields :).
Tags: India, Uttarakhand, Himalaya, Garhwal-Himalaya, festival, spring, travel, Uttarkashi
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Lucknow Photo Journal

Travel

Real life politics, gracious Tehzeeb, Nawabi lifestyle, grand edifices, valour and patriotism of the year 1857, Urdu poetry, Hindi literature, music as in Thumri, Ghazal, Khayal; history of musical instruments: Tabla, Sarangi, Sitar; Kathak dance, fine Chikan and Zardozi embroidery, secular traditions and enigmatic Awadhi cuisine are woven inextricably in the fabric of Lucknow’s charm.
Tags: India, Uttar-Pradesh, city-guide, Lucknow, photo-journal,
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Lilies through the year, Gardening calendar for North India

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...But the ball lilies that appeared out of nowhere under betel nut trees in my neighbour’s garden in Langford Town in Bangalore were no less amazing! As luck would have it, much as I have admired these, I don’t own a ball lily bulb. Who cares! Come summer and I’ll find them blooming some place again :-)
Tags: Lucknow, Photo-journal, India, Uttar-Pradesh, gardening, relax, flowers, lilies, flora
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