OMJOOMSUH Wiki

The encyclopedia from the house of OMJOOMSUH.

OMJOOMSUH is a small daily practice group in Delhi, led every morning by one man, from one old tradition. This site is where the sources are kept.

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Want to read? The essays are at The Essays. What the programme offers is at What OMJOOMSUH Offers.

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Everything on this site

Below is every page, in three groups. Essays are the long pieces. Concepts are the reference pages, one idea each, with sources. People are the teachers in the lineage.

Essays

• Before The World Claims You
• Charaka knew - Two thousand years before perimenopause had a word
• Generation Shaper
• He Smiled Between Two Armies
• No Bank Would Lend His Father Two Lakh Rupees
• Of All The Things, He Chose That One
• Oh Money In This Too
• Swamiji on Mantra
• The Body That Outshines The Sun
• The Brightest Thing In The Body
• The Chakyar Could Insult the King
• The Four Rooms Of Talent
• The Fourth Room
• The morning Alexander walked back to camp
• The morning I was told to feel my feet
• The Original Yoga Nidra
• The Pit Stop Before The Blueprint
• The Rain Was Never the Problem
• The River And The Riverbed
• The Road After the Question
• The Self That Must Be Chosen
• The Self that Must Win
• The Three 3.0s
• The Universe Within Our Cells
• Three Mantras, Three Planes
• Upstream of the Lab Report
• Wants and Needs - What Diksha Did
• Why a second child began to feel too expensive
• You Are Not Unfit. You Are Underfed.
• Young Businesses and AI
• Your Morning Belongs To You

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Concepts

• 32 Names of Durga: the thirty-two epithets of Durga from the Durga Saptashati.
• Ahamkara: the I-maker; the function that takes an experience and claims it as mine.
• Annamaya Index: the daily mirror that reads one meal a day across four windows, diversity, density, cooking wisdom, and personal fit.
• Bihar School of Yoga: the lineage and global authority on yoga and Samkhya that OMJOOMSUH translates from.
• Buddhi: the discriminating intellect, the faculty of judgment in Samkhya psychology.
• Chakras: the subtle-body energy centres along the spinal axis.
• Cortisol Awakening Response: the sharp rise in cortisol in the first forty-five minutes after waking; what the evidence supports, and what it does not.
• Dashanami Sannyasa Parampara: the ten monastic orders of Adi Shankaracharya’s tradition.
• Dharma: what holds a thing in its place and keeps it being what it is; the first of the four aims of a life.
• Four Dharmas: the fourfold framing of dharma used in OMJOOMSUH teaching.
• Gayatri: the Vedic mantra to the solar deity Savitr, a core sadhana chant.
• Guna: the three strands out of which all of nature is woven; the parent of sattva, rajas and tamas.
• The Health Balance Score Card: a yogic reading of your energy centres read together with your blood-work, naming what asks the loudest.
• Kama: desire; one of the four purusharthas and a force in the inner life.
• Karma Yoga: the discipline of acting without holding on to what the action will produce.
• Mahamrityunjaya: the great death-conquering mantra to Shiva.
• Manas: the sensory-processing mind in Samkhya psychology.
• Mantra Diksha: formal initiation into a mantra by the guru.
• Metabolic Flexibility: the body’s capacity to switch fuel sources; a bridge concept to modern physiology.
• Nadis: the channels through which prana flows in the subtle body.
• Pancha Kosha: the five sheaths that layer from body to bliss.
• Pancha Prana: the five vital airs that govern bodily function.
• Paramahamsa: the highest order of realised renunciate.
• Prana: the vital life force animating body and breath.
• Pranayama: the regulation and expansion of prana through breath.
• Pratyahara: withdrawal of the senses, the bridge between outer and inner yoga.
• Rajas: the guna of activity, passion, and restlessness.
• Sadhana: disciplined spiritual practice sustained over time.
• Samkhya: the oldest of the six darshanas; the map of the inner architecture that the rest of this work stands on.
• Samskaras: the latent impressions that shape habit and tendency.
• Sanatan Dharma: the perennial civilisational frame underlying the work.
• Sandhya: the junction times of day appointed for practice.
• Sankalpa: a resolve or intention set in practice.
• Saraswati Order: the knowledge-conservation lineage Arjun is initiated into.
• Sattva: the guna of clarity, harmony, and light.
• Shadripus: the six inner enemies (lust, anger, greed, delusion, pride, envy).
• Shakti: power as a principle; the active, generative side of reality, and the Goddess addressed by name in the morning chant.
• Shraddha: faith grounded in conviction and practice.
• Surya Namaskara: the sun salutation; a core morning practice.
• Tamas: the guna of inertia, heaviness, and dullness.
• Three Planes: the threefold framing of planes used in OMJOOMSUH teaching.
• Upavasa: fasting as a disciplined practice.
• Vagus Nerve: the parasympathetic nerve; the physiological bridge to chanting and calm.
• Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: “the world is one family”; the anti-isolation principle.
• Yoga Nidra: yogic sleep; deep conscious relaxation.
• Yogic UX: the design discipline that builds software like a temple bell rather than a slot machine; the four turns.

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People

• Adi Shankaracharya: founder of the Dashanami tradition; head of the lineage.
• Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati: Arjun’s guru; Paramahamsa of the Bihar School.
• Swami Satyananda Saraswati: founder of the Bihar School of Yoga.
• Swami Sivananda Saraswati: guru of Swami Satyananda; of the Saraswati lineage.