At the Feet of The Mother

Essays on Yoga

Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga

‘The Stars, the Full Moon and the Sun’ – an offering for the Guru Poornima

Jul 5, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

He is with us through the change of seasons since His work is never finished. He is with us from birth to death, and He is with us when we depart to other domains. We rest in Him at the end of our life and return after receiving His nourishing touch.

The Evolutionary Challenge

Jun 30, 2020

An essay by Alok Pandey (TEXT)

Fall is never the permanent resting ground but a temporary moment to recuperate for the next level of effort. It is only through such successive efforts and attempts that eventual success comes.

Myths, Symbols and Spiritual Truths in the Age of Reason

Jun 29, 2020

We must uncover spiritual truths hiding behind all these stories and legends and philosophies, since to discover them again through a great personal tapasya is nearly impossible in our modern age, with such short life spans and a thoroughly materialistic orientation.

The Path to Self-Mastery

Jun 27, 2020

An open letter by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

The road to self-mastery is long and needs patience and perseverance. Yet it is worth all the efforts since self-mastery makes life beautiful and happy and opens doors to endless possibilities of progress.

The Universal Deity

Jun 24, 2020

An essay by Alok Pandey (TEXT)

When we have learnt this lesson that He is trying to teach us then shall we be free from the fear of death and indeed from all fears since behind all things terrible and beautiful, dangerous and delightful we shall see the One Divine Beloved

Shrinking from God

Jun 23, 2020

An essay by Alok Pandey (TEXT)

The Sublime Adventure

Jun 19, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY

Death, struggle, suffering, evil are a passage, not the beginning nor the end of things. We want to avoid this passage; then we shall also avoid the great goal towards which creation tends.

Staring at the face of Death

Jun 18, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY

... when it stares at us, we should be able to look into its eyes with the light of our soul and be conscious of our immortality.

The Conscious Evolution

Jun 15, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY

But our true nature is divine in essence and is covered up by these surface movements of restless agitation and feverish pursuit of desires. Yoga gives us back our true identity and true nature.

Evolutionary Leap

Jun 11, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY

The faith and intuition embedded within man is bound to take over our current paradigms, leading to the emergence of a new and higher species or sub-species out of man, a being less burdened with animality

The Evolutionary Crisis

Jun 9, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey

Is our evolution over? Is the creative impulsion in Nature exhausted with the appearance of man? Logically this sounds unlikely.

The Power of Faith

Jun 6, 2020

An essay in English (TEXT)

There is a wisdom that underlies the seemingly random events of life. The Intelligence that has gone into creation is much vaster than our surface mind and reason can fathom. How is an ant to understand the scale at which the tornado moves?

A Conscious Spiritual Evolution

Jun 4, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey

A conscious evolution is our best hope for the future. But what will be the direction of this evolution? Here too we can find useful hints that Nature has thrown at us.

The Mind and Its Possibilities

Jun 3, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey

We can and we must consciously evolve. Even to just survive we must evolve. Whatever refuses this intrinsic evolutionary urge in man tends to fall back and eventually collapse.

The Powers Beyond the Bodily Life

May 29, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey

We have been made to believe that we are powerless and helpless. It is so because of a near total identification with our body as the only reality.

The Search for Security

May 25, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Very little work if any has taken the route of augmenting our natural defences. This would however mean giving back the power of healing in the hands of the patient rather than, as it now rests, in the hands of the doctors and drug companies.

Objective and Subjective Realities

May 21, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Our thoughts and imagination, wishes and impulses, will and emotions all add or take away the colours of creation, modify the objective world to give us a very limited personalized experience of Reality.

Attachments and Love

May 21, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

... there is a deeper heart, a heart of true feelings, a heart of sweetness and love. In this deeper heart there burns the steady flame of love where feelings last beyond the body and die not with its death. This flame is fed by sacrifice rather than desires.