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There are many types of Yogasanas or yogic exercises taught by several Masters on yoga. Yogic exercises should be simple so that practitioners of all ages can practise them. The aim of yogic exercises is to supply sufficient warmness or heat to the body so that germs causing disease are killed; deposits in veins and arteries are removed and mind gets concentrated. As gold is purified by burning, so heat generated from yoga removes or kills germs or foreign matter from the body. Further in yogic exercise mind remains within the body and thereby gets concentrated.

My yoga Master Late Munishvar Shiv kumar Shastri has developed an unique yogic exercise called Chakrabhedan(circle-interception). This is very simple but most effective for making the body disease-free and concentrating mind to a great extent. The body has six major chakras or circles. These are - Muladhar Chakra at anus, Swadhisthan Chakra at genital, Manipur chakra at naval, Anahat chakra at mid-chest, Vishudha chakra at throat and Ajna chakra in between eyebrows. These are vital chakras for the body in order to survive.

Besides these six chakras, there are minor chakras both in the legs and hands. There chakras are simply joints in the legs and hands. So in all there are eighteen chakras in the body. In Chakrabhedan body parts or limbs are moved along fixed directions on the plane of each chakra. While moving limbs mind is fixed on a particular chakra. So not only there is an exercise of the body but there is exercise of mind also. This Chakrabhedan exercise cannot be described in words. Learners may learn it directly from a Master. Once learners learn it they shall find it most effective.

Author Premansu Chand preaches and practices yoga. He resides at Bhubaneswar, india. To know more about spiritualism and Yoga readers may go through his book 'Quest for truth: the spiritual and yogic way' which may be collected from bn.com or amazon.com. premansu_chand@rediffmail.com

While Im happy with the Vikings current winning streak and their improved play, I will reserve judgment and praise of their recent performance until after this weeks game with the Pittsburgh steelers.

Pittsburgh is a good team with an 8-5 record. They will provide the toughest competition that the Vikings have faced in the past six weeks.

We will finally see if the Vikings are a legitimate playoff contender.

now I want to return to an old story called Cruisegate where alleged Vikings players took part in a sex party with prostitutes on board a Minnesota cruise.

It seems as if winning is the only thing that matters to Minnesotas media, fans and Vikings ownership.

now that the Vikings are winning, the media seems to have shelved this story. The media was convinced that some Vikings players exhibited horrible, immoral and even illegal behavior.

To date media and law enforcement officials have not exonerated Vikings players who allegedly took part in Cruisegate. In fact at least one law enforcement agency has turned the case over to prosecutors to be reviewed.

Were now waiting to see what the FBI and Hennepin County Sheriffs Office does with the case.

Can we assume that the media only reports wrongful and illegal behavior of professional athletes when sports teams in their city are losing? Does the media only care about winning?

Im not sure of the answers to those questions but it does look like it.

The fans are also to blame for the story being shelved. When the Vikings were losing, fans were outraged by the Vikings alleged actions in Cruisegate. The fans were demanding that law enforcement and team officials take action.

now that the Vikings are winning they dont seem to care about Cruisegate anymore. They only seem to care that their team is winning.

The ownership of the Vikings also seems to have turned a blind eye to the whole affair. Shortly after the story about Crusiegate was made public, Vikings owner Zygi Wilf held a press conference. He promised the community of the Twin Cities that his team would deal with the players involved and that they would be disciplined.

He wasnt even denying the alleged actions of his players. now that his team is winning, he seems to have forgotten his promise to the people of Minnesota.

The actions of the media, Vikings fans and Vikings ownership are terrible. I believe that they only care about winning football games. Doing the right thing, being a good and productive citizen and following the law seems to mean nothing to the media, fans and ownership.

As long as the Vikings are winning, it seems as if its ok for Vikings players to do what they want. They are free to urinate on someones lawn and then allegedly take part in a sex party with prostitutes. I guess its a win win situation for the devil, isnt it.