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Yoga : Spirituality or business ?

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                                                             What have these people done to yoga? Thousands of years ago, Patanjali described hatha yoga; Krishna described the entire yoga system. Both these teachers advised practitioners and yoga teachers to embrace among other things like Austerity, Simplicity and celibacy and renunciation of worldliness.Yogis lived in forest or mountains; they ate what grew wild, shunned the world and abandoned worldly tapping’s for a higher cause .i.e for enlightenment. Fast forward 2018 and Yoga is now market worth 80 billion USD, Student pay for each session, teachers’ pay highly for developing the expertise. Yoga retreat are through the roof, added to that are requisite Yoga equipment’s : Yoga Mats , Yoga pants , yoga shirt , yoga incense and variety of yoga st...

2 AM !

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The city sleeps and I am cutting a line of ambiance talking to the moon. The Moon is bright tonight and as beautiful as it is. I am reminded how alone I feel staring at the moon on a summer night meant for more than going home to an empty bed. This story is of every insomniac person who suffers from Nictofilia. I am one of them. I find peace in darkness. To be in the crowd yet far away from them is to be alone. It’s good to be alone at 2 AM. I know what I am doing is just a young man with soul much older than the rundown building that permeate the town. 2AM is for the photographers who aim at the sky and record millions of light year history in just one click. It is the time of the poet who collects all the pain in the day and sits alone in darkness and screams in his poems. 2AM is for the philosopher who becomes the vigilante out of his philosophy and dream to change the world. 2AM is not for ordinary people, they sleep in their illusions. 2AM is for those who hold thei...