Sivananda Ashtang Yoga Shala Nagpur

Sivananda Ashtang Yoga Shala Nagpur We believe an ounce of practice is better than tones of theory. Our shala teaches the Yogic methods Our Yogashala is at Vijanangar, Near Poonam Chambers.
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Sivananda Ashtang YogaSHala is a traditional Sivananda Yoga class. It is hard to put what actually Yoga means as it is like describing the rainbow in words, you have to experience it yourself. But if i quote from my teachers it is simply the "cessation of mind", the state of inner quietness. We at Sivananda Ashtag YogaShala Nagpur are just trying to spread the message of Master Sivananda and Swami

Vishnudevananda. It is an old school of yoga which has its beauty in its simplicity and grace. We are just humble servants who are truly in love with it and spreading the message. Come visit us to experience it :)

01/09/2026

Yoga Chronicles 🎬: when Ram Dass Gave Babaji L*D.
In 1967, when Alpert first came to India, he was carrying L*D because he wanted to meet someone who could explain its effects from a spiritual perspective. After meeting Maharaj-ji, Alpert was surprised when Baba asked him, “Where is the medicine?” Bhagavan Das suggested that Baba meant the L*D.

Alpert gave Baba three L*D pills, about 900 micrograms in total, according to Ram Dass’s own account. Baba took them, and Alpert waited for the expected psychedelic reaction. Nothing seemed to happen.

Ram Dass later described a second account involving 1,200 micrograms, after which Baba again appeared completely unaffected and even asked whether Alpert had anything stronger. Baba then explained that yogis had traditionally used such “medicines,” but that a mind firmly fixed on God could reach the state without them.

The important part of the story isn’t really the L*D. For Ram Dass, it became the moment he understood that Maharaj-ji’s state of consciousness did not depend on a chemical experience—and this profoundly changed the direction of his life.
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🌿 The umbrella of protectionIn 1967, a devotee named R. P. Vaish came to Kainchi to see Maharajji. Vaish was being trans...
01/09/2026

🌿 The umbrella of protection

In 1967, a devotee named R. P. Vaish came to Kainchi to see Maharajji. Vaish was being transferred to Delhi and told Baba that he wanted to travel through Kashmir before taking up his new posting.

As he was leaving, Maharajji suddenly gave him an umbrella.

“Keep it with you. It rains heavily there.”

Vaish hesitated. He already had an umbrella at home and thought the one Baba had given him would be more useful at the ashram.

But Maharajji insisted.

“Keep it with you.”

So Vaish took it.

Years later, after Maharajji had left his body, Vaish was transferred to Lucknow. He left some of his belongings—including that old umbrella—in his Delhi home.

Then something happened that made him remember Baba’s words.

The umbrella had become, in Baba’s words, “a protective umbrella over you.”

The devotee later understood that perhaps Baba’s concern had never really been about rain.

It was his way of saying:

“I am looking after you. Even when you cannot see me.”

And perhaps that is why devotees continue to say:

A Guru may disappear from the eyes,
but never from the heart.
His grace continues to walk with you.

Ram Dass’s Miracle of Love contains thousands of such stories collected from devotees, while also acknowledging that these are personal recollections whose individual historical details cannot always be independently verified.

Jai Maharaj Ji. 🙏 🙏❤️

31/08/2026

🎬 Yoga Chronicle: THE DAY RICHARD ALPERT MET NEEM KAROLI BABA

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In 1967, an American Harvard professor named Richard Alpert came to India searching for something his intellect could not explain.

He had studied psychology. He had explored the mind.
But deep inside, he was searching for freedom.

Then, in the foothills of the Himalayas, he met a simple Indian saint known as Neem Karoli Baba.

Maharajji looked at him—and began speaking about deeply personal things from Alpert’s life, including his mother who had passed away.

Richard was stunned.

How could this simple man sitting before him know things that he had never told him?

For perhaps the first time, his brilliant intellect had no answer.

Maharajji then simply said:

“I know you.”

That meeting changed the direction of Richard Alpert’s life.

The Harvard professor slowly disappeared, and a new identity was born:

RAM DASS — “Servant of God.”

He would later write Be Here Now, inspiring millions to explore meditation, yoga and the spiritual path.

Sometimes, we think we are searching for a teacher.

Perhaps the teacher is searching for us.

Jai Maharajji. 🙏
YogaChronicles Spirituality Guru Meditation

31/08/2026

Neem Karoli Baba — The Story of the Banyan Tree

There is a beautiful story from the years when Neem Karoli Baba was living as a wandering sadhu, spending long periods in tapasya and solitude.

He would often disappear into forests and remote places, living with almost nothing—no possessions, no comfort, sometimes even going without food.

One day, during a period of intense meditation, a villager noticed the young sadhu sitting motionless beneath a tree.

Days passed.

The villager became curious and finally approached him.

He asked,
“Maharaj, what are you doing here all alone?”

Baba opened his eyes and simply replied:

“I am looking for Him.”

The villager asked,
“And where do you think you will find Him?”

Baba smiled and pointed toward his own heart.

“Where else?”

The villager left without understanding.

Years later, people who came to know Neem Karoli Baba would say that his tapasya had transformed him. He no longer seemed to be searching for God outside himself. His life became centred on seva, love and feeding others.

Perhaps that is the deeper meaning of tapasya:

You enter the forest looking for God…
and eventually discover that the One you were seeking
was sitting silently within you all along.

— Yoga Chronicles

30/08/2026

🎬YOGA CHRONICLES | THE DAY RAMAKRISHNA GAVE VIVEKANANDA SAMADHI

What happened when a guru touched his disciple—and the world disappeared?

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Narendranath had one burning question:

“Have you seen God?”

Sri Ramakrishna did not answer with philosophy.

One day, he touched Narendra.

Narendra’s awareness turned inward. The familiar world seemed to vanish, and he entered a profound state of consciousness—samadhi.

But Narendra wanted to remain there.

Ramakrishna had other plans.

He knew that Narendra was not born merely to seek his own liberation. He had a mission—to carry the message of Vedanta to the world.

In another famous episode, Ramakrishna brought him into that state again and touched him with his foot. He then told him, in essence, that he had “kept the key” to that highest state, and that it would be opened again when Narendra’s work in the world was complete.

The disciple wanted the Infinite.

The guru sent him back to serve the finite.

And that disciple would later become Swami Vivekananda.

Yoga Chronicles — where ancient stories reveal the deeper journey within.

30/08/2026

YOGA CHRONICLES | THE DAY RAMAKRISHNA GAVE VIVEKANANDA SAMADHI

What happened when a guru touched his disciple—and the world disappeared?

Narendranath had one burning question:

“Have you seen God?”

Sri Ramakrishna did not answer with philosophy.

One day, he touched Narendra.

Narendra’s awareness turned inward. The familiar world seemed to vanish, and he entered a profound state of consciousness—samadhi.

But Narendra wanted to remain there.

Ramakrishna had other plans.

He knew that Narendra was not born merely to seek his own liberation. He had a mission—to carry the message of Vedanta to the world.

In another famous episode, Ramakrishna brought him into that state again and touched him with his foot. He then told him, in essence, that he had “kept the key” to that highest state, and that it would be opened again when Narendra’s work in the world was complete.

The disciple wanted the Infinite.

The guru sent him back to serve the finite.

And that disciple would later become Swami Vivekananda.

Yoga Chronicles — where ancient stories reveal the deeper journey within.

29/08/2026

Pattabhi jois on Mulabandha and sitting straight.

Guruji would invite students into his home for Mysore coffee, ask about their families and work, and observe what kind o...
29/08/2026

Guruji would invite students into his home for Mysore coffee, ask about their families and work, and observe what kind of person they were. He said Jois could be very stern with one student and very gentle with another because he changed his teaching according to what each student needed.

Pattabhi Jois had a different way of teaching every student.

One of his students remembered that Guruji would sometimes invite students into his home for coffee.

He would ask them about their family, their work, their life—not just their yoga.

And then, in the shala, he might be extremely strict with one student and incredibly gentle with another.

Why?

Because he wasn’t simply teaching a sequence of asanas.

He was teaching the person standing in front of him.

He watched the student.
He understood the student.
And then he gave the student exactly what he needed.

That is why his students remembered something beyond the postures.

They remembered being seen by their Guru.

Yoga is not only about mastering the posture.
It is about allowing the teacher to transform the person performing it.

There is another story:
A student named Nicki Doane recalled that on her first trip to Mysore, Jois criticized her for practicing too slowly. She felt hurt and went upstairs crying.

Later, he called her back.

He asked why she was crying.

She told him, “I thought you were being mean to me.”

Jois came close to her and said:

“You crying, I’m crying. You smiling, I’m smiling.”

He then sat beside her, placed his hand on her head, and comforted her.

“Headstand 250 breaths”
Last story:
A student, Amy Beth Treciokas, once came to Guruji asking for advice about personal problems in her life.

Instead of giving her psychological advice, Jois simply told her:

“You take headstand 250 breaths.”

She actually followed his instruction for six weeks.

And she later said that after doing that much headstand, nothing in the world seemed capable of disturbing her.

The deeper message is beautiful:

Sometimes the Guru doesn’t solve your problem.
He gives you the discipline through which you become bigger than the problem.

Krishnamacharya at 85:The old man’s voice was quiet, almost offhand, when he mentioned the thirty-two variations of head...
28/08/2026

Krishnamacharya at 85:
The old man’s voice was quiet, almost offhand, when he mentioned the thirty-two variations of headstand. The classroom went silent.

Nobody said a word. But across the room, a young student named Mohan couldn’t help it — something in his face gave him away. A flicker of doubt.

Krishnamacharya saw it instantly. He looked straight at him.

“It looks like you don’t believe me,” he said. “Fold that mat. Place it here.”

And then, without another word, an eighty-five-year-old man rose into headstand — and moved through all thirty-two variations, one after another, until there was nothing left to doubt.

27/08/2026

“I keep looking for you out there — in temples, in silence, in far-off mountains. But maybe you were never far. Maybe you were just waiting for me to stop looking so hard and start noticing.” get ready for the Yatra

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