by Powertime Practice Support Team | Sep 25, 2016 | Sundays with Sucharita
We may especially need help with balance during this two week period called Mahalaya or the time that the ancestors are close to the earth plane. The ancestors can upset or bother us at this time so we have to continue to offer the tarpanam to them. Learn how....
by Lalitha Donatella Riback | Sep 22, 2016 | Dr. Pillai
What does someone else’s poverty have to do with your happiness? According to both mystics and scientists, a lot more than you’d expect. Globally, there are 7 billion people breathing on this planet, 2.7 billion of whom live on less than $2 a day. Improving...
by Powertime Practice Support Team | Sep 18, 2016 | Sundays with Sucharita
The Sun is a star with a tremendous amount of light and intelligence. In Vedic Astrology, Sun symbolizes your soul, activity, the king, and your father. From September 16th through October 16th, Sun will be transiting through Virgo. Virgo is the most practical and...
by Lalitha Donatella Riback | Sep 15, 2016 | Dr. Pillai
We fancy ourselves alone in a vast universe. But are we? Actually, according to different spiritual traditions, we’re never alone and there’s more to reality than we can fathom. Among those who claim the connectedness of all things we find the yogis of India,...
by Lalitha Donatella Riback | Sep 14, 2016 | Powertime Updates
Unless you live in a parallel universe, you’ve been under extreme pressure to perform and transform your bad habits into better ones. The difficult Saturn and Mars conjunction steamed our emotions and stress was the main result. Also, denial wasn’t allowed...
by Lalitha Donatella Riback | Sep 13, 2016 | Dr. Pillai, Meditations
In common vernacular the word meditation conjures images of lucky people achieving the nearly impossible: stopping the endless stream of restless and uneasy thoughts that plague our minds on a daily basis. In reality, meditation can be easy and anyone can...
by Powertime Practice Support Team | Sep 11, 2016 | Sundays with Sucharita
One of the tools Dr. Pillai has given us is the service of Tarpanam. This is the offering of “food” to the ancestors who may be bothering or blocking us. They are asking us to help them to move along on their own spiritual path. Once a year is a two week period...
by Dr Pillai | Sep 8, 2016 | Featured
Mahalaya (or Pitri Paksha) is a two-week period between the 1st waning Moon and the New Moon day between September and October that is completely dedicated to the ancestors and rituals in their honor. Mahalaya starts on 1st waning Moon and ends on Amavasya, the...
by Powertime Practice Support Team | Sep 4, 2016 | Sundays with Sucharita
How do we know what it is we are supposed to be doing in order to be happy and fulfilled? The soul knows, so we must learn to listen. We learn to listen through meditation. We contact the archetypes (Divine Beings) in our meditations. Today is Ganesha’s...
by Lalitha Donatella Riback | Sep 2, 2016 | Archetypes
Today, we consider Hippocrates the father of rational science and contemporary medicine. Yet the Greek physician wasn’t the only famous doctor in human history. In ancient India Believed to be at least 7,000 years old, the Vedas carry many references to the...