On March 23, 2014 country heads and students alike were found on the streets distributing food, housewives and members of the press were seen feeding cows and dogs, while top bureaucrats and businessmen were performing havans. All these were part of the unique celebrations of Yogi Ashwini's birthday are bound to get the attention of many.

In earlier times, birth anniversaries were celebrated to mark one’s growing wiser by a year and also closer to merging back from where one has come. Traditionally, birthdays were celebrated by performing havan to connect to the cosmos and awaken the hidden potential inside through specific chants as prescribed by the Guru. Havans are a medium to interact with divine being, the proof of which can be seen in the divine manifestations that happen and are visible in the agni at Vedic havans conducted under the guidance of Yogi Ashwini.

Our ancients followed the Lunar calendar, which very accurately predicts the congruence of energy on various days. Take for example, the seventh day of Krishna paksh in the month of chaitra, which falls on march 23rd this year. It is a powerful day, the day when Yogi Ashwini was born and the day which resonates with the energy corresponding to His energy form.

While every birth anniversary is a point of transition in the life of an individual, there are three that are especially powerful – the day you turn 25, 50 and 75 respectively. On these specific days the shakti of an individual goes through a major transformation which can be used for manifold progress. The 25th year marks the age at which one enters the physical life after completing education, 50 the time when one starts devoting his energy to connecting with the cosmos and shaktis therein to prepare for a higher birth and 75 when one leaves everything to merge back with the source, which is the ultimate purpose of life.

MORE ABOUT YOGI ASHWINI

Yogi Ashwini is adept in the ancient sciences of yog, tantra, spiritual healing, mantra chanting, yajnas, past-life visitation and vedic martial arts. With an honours in economics, a masters in management and a successful business, He is an eminent writer for leading dailies and journals, an acclaimed speaker internationally, author of global bestsellers on ancient sciences, honorary editor for the spiritual magazine ‘The Inner World’ and the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation.

After studying the being for decades, spending years in silence and having interacted with the Himalayan masters, Yogi Ashwini propounded the Sanatan Kriya, an assimilation of the eight limbs of Patanjali Ashtang Yog. The sheer magnetism of his persona and radiance he exudes, even nearing 50, and the experiences one gets just by being in his presence, are enough proof of the efficacy of practice. The doctors of the Indian Medical Association have personally experienced under his guidance, the power of Sanatan Kriya and the science of clairvoyance after a live demonstration by His students. His two decades of pioneering research on anti-ageing, has been published in the book ‘Sanatan Kriya: The Ageless Dimension’. Recent researches by certain reputed Western Universities are in accordance with the studies of Yogi Ashwini on anti-ageing.

Thousands have benefited physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually from the practice of Sanatan Kriya, which is taught across the globe free of cost. He runs nearly 17 schools for street children, funds education of blind girls at NAB, organises food distribution camps, generates employment for underprivileged, feeds stray animals at more than 100 centers daily and gives medical help to all those who come to him... humans or animals.

DHYAN FOUNDATION

Dhyan Foundation is a spiritual and charitable organisation committed to the cause of spreading awareness about the authentic path of yoga, as laid down by Sage Patanjali 4500 years ago. It is run solely by volunteers who are engaged day in and day out in helping the creation, without any remuneration for their services. These volunteers hail from all walks of life – business magnates, journalists, doctors, designers, lawyers, scholars, home-makers and normal people – driven and guided on the path of sadhna and service by Yogi Ashwini, a true living master.

Formed in 2002, Dhyan Foundation today is a global phenomenon with centers all across the world where classes for Sanatan Kriya are conducted free of cost. The Foundation is actively engaged in a host of charities including free distribution of food at multiple places, saving wildlife and looking after injured animals, running schools for street kids, sponsoring higher education of the poor and the blind, finding employment for the unemployed, spreading awareness about environmental issues etc. and all this is done without any government funding or selling any products, solely out of funds of Yogi Ashwini and from the contributions of the volunteers.

—For more, visit www.dhyanfoundation.com