| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Jap Mala |
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A jap mala is a mala of 108 beads usually made up of tulsi or Rudraksha or sandalwood used for keeping a count while doing jap or chanting of a sacred mantra (divine sounds) as per Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism and its branches) Tradition.
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| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Kamandal |
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A Kamandal or Kamandalam is an oblong water pot made up of a dry gourd (pumpkin) or coconut shell or metal or wood of Kamandalataru tree or from clay, usually with a handle and sometimes with a spout.
Hindu ascetics or yogis often use it for storing drinking water.
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| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Yoga Mat |
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Yoga Mats are mats specifically made for yogis/sadhaks to sit on and do Yoga or Yoga Sadhna. The material used for mat depends on the type of sadhna or yoga the sadhak intends to do.
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| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Yagna Samagri |
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Yagna Samagri is a mixture of various auspicious and medicinal herbs and woods, when burnt in the yagna kund along with the chanting of sacred vedic mantras purifies the atmosphere and fills it with good positive vibrations so that any negetive energy present would be ascended, freeing one of diseases, cleansing the minds so that one could focus our attention within on the almighty without perterbations of the ever fluctuating mind.
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| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Sandalwood |
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Sandalwood is a highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album) found in Southern India in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerela.
It is famous for its fragrance and known for enhancing spiritual practices. It is widely used for making incense sticks and dhoop. It's aroma purifies the atmosphere and conditions the mind for spiritual practices.
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| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Gangajal |
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Gangajal, the water of the Holy Ganges has a great significance in the Indian Tradition. No ceremony from birth to death is complete with out the use of gangajal. Gangajal is believed to be very rich in good positive vibfrations capable of healing or washing away sanchit karmas or paap karmas of the devotee.
Wherever gangajal is sprinkled, it frees that place of demons, evil thoughts and negetive energies. It is widely used in various ayurvedic and healing practices for curing a number of diseases.
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| Yoga/Spiritual Articles -> Rudraksha mala |
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Rudraksha is a sanskrit word composed of rudra (form of Shiva) and aksha (eye). These are seeds of a large evergreen broad leaved tree of Elaeocarpus genus found from the Gangetic Plain in foothills of the Himalayas to South-East Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea to Australia, Guam, and Hawaii.
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