Cucumber Pineapple salad

Ingredients :
Cucumber - 1 cup
Pineapple - 1 cup
pepper and salt.
Cut Cucumber and Pineapple and add pepper - salt and serve.

Satvik Food - Jack Fruit Halwa

JACK FRUIT HALWA

Ingredients
1 kg sweet jackfruit
1kg jaggery
2 coconuts, grated
1/2 cup ghee
For the garnish
1/2 cup roasted cashew nuts
1/2 cup raisins

Method
Deseed the jackfruit and cut into 3-inch strips. Put aside.Place jaggery in a pan. Add enough water to barely cover. Heat until the jaggery dissolves completely stirring frequently. Then strain. To this, add the jackfruit strips and grated coconuts and cook over medium heat stirring continuously. Add the ghee and continue stirring until it reaches a jam consistency. Remove from heat. Place in a bowl. Garnish with roasted cashew nuts and raisins.

Food Served in Isha centre

Stress on uncooked food in the form of salads is pronounced.
A rare variety of porridges with nutritive value are a way of eating. Served on banana leaves is good.
Food In Isha centre
The bland food is structured to generate a satwik mood.

Twice a day at 10 am and 7 pm, the meditators are offered sukku (dry ginger powder), coffee and tea.

Lemon and honey tea is served during the post noon session with a bowl of fruits. The day, however, begins with the consumption of neem leaf balls and turmeric balls with a glass of hot water for cleansing the system.
The food inevitably is cooked sans garlic and onions, as the ashram considers them as negative influences.
Rice and wheat are also served in turns and sprouts, soaked grams, cut vegetables, fruits and nuts are included on a daily basis.
On an average, at least fifty per cent of the meals served are uncooked.
A bountiful vegetable garden nurtured by the ashram supplies vegetables for the kitchen on a daily basis but on special occasions .

Aum Chanting

OM or AUM is the most important and significant word of Mantra tradition.
It is considered as the root mantra of all mantra.
In a majority of Mantra, you will find OM.

HOW TO DO IT ?
Sit in Artha Sidhaasana with Chin Mudra and say "AAA-UUU-EmEmEm.."- 21 times.
When you say AA you can notice the vibrations in your belly area ,uuu vibrates in your chest area and EmEm.. in your throat area.

OM is the most often chanted sound among all the sacred sounds on earth.
This sound is considered as the sound of the existence.
It is believed that the whole universe, in its fundamental form, is made up of vibrating, pulsating energy.
Om is considered as the humming sound of this cosmic energy.

It is also known as the 'Anahat Nada', the "Unstruck Sound". This means the sound that is not made by two things striking together.

If you observe the nature of sound you'll find that all ordinary audible sound are produced by the striking of two objects : bow and strings, drum and stick, two vocal cords, waves against the shore, winds against the leaves, bat against the ball, tyers against the road etc.
In short all sounds within our range of listening are produces by things visible or invisible, striking each other or vibrating together, resulting in pulsating waves of air molecules which we interprets as sound.

SADGURU'S BACKGROUND

Sadhguru was a rebel, always questioning what was normally accepted by society.
For example, as a boy when he was dragged into a temple he asked of his parents:

why was it necessary to pray before idols?
What good would it do?
He would get beaten up for that.

In ten years he changed ten schools in and around Shimoga where he was born.
It was also because his father, an ophthalmologist with the Railways, was shunted him from place to place.

When the time came to join college, Sadhguru refused.
Instead he spent a whole year reading all kinds of books.
Finally, because of parental pressures, he enrolled for the B.A. course and just about managed enough examination questions to pass.”

After college, Sadhguru wanted to make a lot of money because he craved to travel the world.
He started poultry farming as that was a thriving business in those days. He succeeded, and his father was thrilled.
But Sadhguru disappointed him by winding up the farm. “He was bored of chickens.

Sadhguru then teamed up with a partner to enter the construction business in Mysore. It did very well. Once again his father was thrilled.
And once again he was in store for disappointment.

“One afternoon,while sitting on a rock on nearby Chamundi Hills, Sadhguru experienced something mysterious yet ecstatic.
He was left crying and smiling for several hours.

From then on the experience repeated frequently.
It endowed him with a deep insight into life and people, an insight that proved to be an unfair advantage over competitors in the construction business.
He wound up the business and set about finding what exactly it was that he had experienced.
In the ensuing months, he was able to remember experiences in a previous life with a sage called Palaniswamy.

Sadhguru was already equipped with various aspects of yoga learnt during his youth from Malladihalli Swamy, a reputed yogi in Karnataka.
This knowledge together with memories of life with Palaniswamy helped Sadhguru design specific practices for the yoga of gnana (intelligence), bhakti (emotions), karma (action), and kriya (energy).
This method of ‘inner engineering’ that Sadhguru designed was to align these four ‘wheels’ in such a way that one could travel smoothly.

SadhGuru about Anger

Sadhuguru says , that it does not matter how much people preach "don't get angry";
when certain situations arise, you get angry.
It does not matter what kind of human being you become;
even if you become superhuman, you will never have absolute control over the external world.
Whether it is with the company you work for, your family or the world, you will never have total control over external situations.

But you can have total control over your internal situation.
Emotional states like anger, hate, lust, compassion or love -- from the lowest states to the highest -- are certain types of expression of the same energy.
People often ask, "Can we exist without anger?"
This is generally because anger is the most intense emotion people have experienced in their lives.
People want intensity, but the only way they know how to be intense is through physical action, anger or pain.
The very reason why drugs and sex have become such a big thing in the world is, somehow, people want to experience some intensity, at least for a few moments -- it is the intensity that draws them.
I am always talking about intensity because intensity is the only thing man is seeking, and it is the only thing that will liberate man from his present bondages.

But unfortunately, for most people, their fear, anger and hatred are the most intense situations in their lives. Their love is never so intense.
Their peace is never so intense. Their joy is never so intense. Instead, their negativities are intense, so they experience power in negative circumstances.

Anger is enormous intensity;
it is an intensity that hurts you.
It is an intensity that can get you into a lot of trouble.
It is an intensity that can destroy people around you and yourself in so many ways.

But if you transform your energy in a certain way, it naturally becomes love and compassion. Then, slowly, as the process goes further, you reach the pinnacle of self-awareness and experience a unity with all life. The whole process of yoga is based on this.

For many people, "yoga" just means twisting yourself into some impossible postures. But that is not what we are referring to as yoga.

"Yoga" means to be in perfect tune, when your body, mind, spirit and the existence are in absolute harmony.
When you fine-tune yourself to such a point where everything functions so beautifully within you, the best of your abilities will naturally flow out of you. So yoga is the science of activating your inner energies in such a way that your body, mind and emotions function at their highest peak.

Suppose you start experiencing everyone around you as part of yourself.
After that, no one needs to teach you to be good, not to harm others.
And once you are experientially a part of everything, then nobody needs to teach you morality.
Then you can do something about any given situation that may be unpleasant, but without anger. What you have to do, you do; but when you do it with anger and hatred, it is of no value.
A day can come when, even if you are put into the most extreme situation, your energies will remain very calm.
When you act out of unity with all life, you act without identity. Only then can you function out of your intelligence.

Yoga means to cultivate your energy in such a way that gradually it breaks the physical limitations and elevates you to the highest level of awareness, the flowering of human potential.

Heart Rate Dynamics during Shambhavi Mahamudra- A Practice of Isha Yoga

The Heart Rate VariabilityT test is a simple, non-invasive, fully automated computer-based system designed for quantitative assessment of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)To put it simply it measures your ability to heal and adapt to stressors. It compares your current level of health to the excellent level maintained by an olympic athlete. It is a great way to measure your success in health--you can do the test in the beginnning of your health improvement program and then again in several weeks to see how you are progressing

A study was designed to quantify and compare the instantaneous changes of heart rate variability (HRV) during Shambhavi Mahamudra, a practice of Isha yoga.
It includes major stages viz. Sukha pranayam, 'AUM' chanting, rapid breathing, and relaxed sitting.
The standard lead II electrocardiogram (ECG) signals were acquired from eight healthy, yoga practitioners while performing various stages of Shambhavi Mahamudra. The short-term HRV were extracted from ECG, and analyzed using time, frequency-domain and Poincaré plot methods.
The results showed a combination of increased sympathetic tone and withdrawal of vagal tone during Sukha pranayam, an increased sympathetic tone during `AUM' chanting, and withdrawal of vagal tone during rapid breathing.\
The HRV descriptors were not significantly different during relaxed sitting