Parikarma Karuna – The Ability to Empathize and More

Parikarma Karuna - Compassion
Since my last post about Parikarma Maitri, I have been realizing the wisdom of this yogic teaching: how it can be liberating to let go of the resentment that we harbor; to take more opportunities to be happy even if that happiness is someone else’s. It is wonderful to be able to celebrate what we have and what others have; to partake of joy not of our own making! Another concep...
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Ahimsa as One of the Limbs of Yoga

Compassion with Yoga
Ahimsa or the concept of nonviolence is arguably one of the noblest and most evolved of concepts that India has presented to the world.  By employing nonviolent means to secure independence from the British yoke, Indians won a moral victory and demonstrated to the world how ahimsa can yield results where violence will not. In the process generations of thinkers and leaders the ...
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