Fibre of life

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Yogi Ashwini [1]

The clothes we wear are the closest to our physical at all time. By virtue of this, we are constantly affected by the nature of our clothes and their colour. That’s why it is advisable to wear clothes made of natural fibre. Wearing synthetic clothes will transfer on to you the artificial nature of the fabric, making you artificial and taking you away from the real world of nature. The same goes for ladies who wear bindis.

Since it affects the Ajna Chakra directly, it is strongly recommended that the bindi be made of natural substances. Unfortunately, nowadays designer bindis are more prevalent than the natural ones. What these ladies are imbibing through their Ajna is only plasticity and artificiality.
Within the physical, the natural colour of substances indicates its nature and effect. When you go to a party, you wear bright flashy clothes, but when you go for a prayer meeting, the preference is for subdued pastel shades. Is this an effect of social conditioning or has social conditioning happened because the role of colour in our lives has been understood? The science of colour is an amazing science, and its effect on the physical body is even more amazing. I will discuss about colour in a different article. Today I want to tell you about energy, prana.
In temples, priests apply tilak to hundreds of foreheads in a day, with the same thumb or stick. You can imagine the amount of different energies that are getting transferred to your forehead through this simple, seemingly harmless act.
On a daily basis, we interact with many people, coming from different walks of life, having different energy patterns. This interaction affects us in one form or the other. Otherwise why would we feel good in the company of some people and irritated and agitated after meeting some? Have we thought why an eight-hour outing in a hill station is refreshing while eight hours in an office completely drain you of your energies? The reason is interchange of the energies.
Prana is the force that pervades the universe; it is actually “the force” in the universe. Pranic energy, vibrating at zillions of frequencies, manifests itself as each and every object of creation, giving it a different shape, size and mental and physical state of being. This prana also manifests as the “life-force” that keeps the body alive. The other sources of prana are the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the environment we are in, the sounds we hear, the land we stand on, the people we interact with, etc. Since our environment constantly affects us, it translates onto our physical, resulting in changing our pranic composition on a regular basis. This is why rishis choose to live in isolation, in a clean environment.

Yogi Ashwini is an authority on yoga, tantra and Vedic sciences. He is the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation.