Ajay Iyer

Hindi is actually easy to learn. If you could dedicate three weeks continuously or 2 to 3 hours a day you could do that very easily. First of all, one must understand the basics of sentence construction and basic grammar rules and gender, which may take 1 day and try to apply. From the second day, one could progress to constructing short sentences related to daily life activities, or talking to friends. Then to some informal sessions. Apart from taking classes, one must watch hindi movies, listen to hindi songs, try to isolate and identify meanings of words that catch your interest, and analyze whether the word is used in daily communication. Learning Hindi actually boils down to the effort that you could dedicate in the time frame.

Mantra yoga is a tradition of yoga that involves chanting of mantras which would help bring about the unification of the mind and body. Also mantras would be chant during practice of suryanamaskara. The most common chanda or meter is the gayathri chanda.. Which helps facilitation of prana flow through the pingala nadi.. Mantra japa of your ishtadeva/devata is also welcome.. From a general perspective householders who are engrossed in karma are initiated into the mantra yoga tradition and is quite easy to follow.

The inner sound is called as the Nadham, and is worshiped as the Nadabrahmam. The inner sound or mystical sound can be heard in the pratyahara or dharana stage of meditation, which is substantially a higher meditative stage which most people have not achieved. This stage is heard only in deep meditation stages, and as stated in yogic texts like shiva samhita and hatha yoga pradipika says that it could be heard during the karna andhara process or cleaning the ear with the index finger. This is one kind of a dhauti procedure. To begin with you can start concentrating on your breath, and a later stage on your heartbeat to first turn your attention inward into the body. Once you are done with this process say about 15-20 days, and 1 hour of asana and 10 minutes of dhyana practice, you could do brahmari pranayama as described by Bihar school of Yoga.... Brahmari is a classical pranayama that is used for relaxation, where the attention towards the internal nada awakens the psyche.....

Diseases that originate out of phlegm or kapha, including asthma, sinusitis, headache, etc can be cured. Diseases originating out of pitta - indigestion, constipation, abdominal enlargements, burning sensations, some types of diabetes etc can be cured using yoga. Diseases of Vata origin, which include nervousness, anxiety, epilepsy, etc can be cured depending upon the progression of diseases. Most lifestyle diseases including prameha, diabetes mellitus, etc can be brought under control or maintenance.