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Yoga. Following the path of Yoga requires effort to understand the prin- ciples of Yoga, combined with practice of the eight com ...

MEANINGS AND FORMS OF YOGA Meanings of ‘Yoga’ The word yogais derived from the Sanskrit verbal root √yuj, ‘to yoke.’ The Indo-Eu ...

with the world.”^6 Despite a variety of applications of yujin the sense of yoking, the ultimate aim of yoga according to the Yog ...

mental activity—is the means of separating oneself from profane life and aspiring to sacred life. Yoga in the Vedas,UPANIÓSADS, ...

Yoga in the UpaniÓsads TheKaÓtha UpaniÓsadprovides one of the earliest articulations of yoga, and expresses a central way of con ...

Holding his body steady with the three [upper parts: head, neck and chest] erect, And causing the senses with the mind to enter ...

action and its consequences, but the understanding with which the ac- tion is performed. Knowledge permits performance of the ac ...

Then having known me in truth He enters into me immediately. BhG 18:55 In all these uses of yoga in the Bhagavadg ̄ıt ̄ais the i ...

c.e.), among his hundreds of other works, wrote treatises on yoga, not- ably the Yoga-binduand DÓrÓsÓti-samuccaya ̄. Jainism inf ...

includes the revered scripture the Bhagavadag ̄ıt ̄a. For persons of different natures, the G ̄ıt ̄aoffers three yogic paths: Jñ ...

T ̄antric KuÓnÓdalin ̄ı and Mantra Yogas. P ̄urna Yoga offers a spiritual path relevant in the present circumstances of global c ...

of primordial Being: puruÓsaor consciousness—the true Self—and prakÓrti or materiality—the experienceable world, including one’s ...

Discriminative knowledge permitting discernment of the true Self as puruÓsa. Disentanglement from materiality and from material ...

The Yogic Remedy Ignorance, avidya ̄ [a, ‘not’; √vid, ‘to know’], refers particularly to the Self’s ignorance of its true nature ...

Yoga’s five-fold classification of vÓrttisis an elegant account of the innu- merable possible instances of human cognition. Righ ...

are capable only of knowing objects as ‘generals’ [YBh 1.49]. Taimni’s commentary on YS 1.49 clarifies the relation between ‘par ...

essential nature”: draÓsÓtuÓh svar ̄upe’vasthanam ̄ [YS 1.3]. The highest pur- pose of yoga, says Swami Ramakrishnananda, “is to ...

Avidya ̄: Ignorance of the true nature of reality and Self-nature Asmita ̄: Egoism or sense of ‘I am’ R ̄aga: Attraction accomp ...

distinctness of the puruÓsaas its sole remaining object, and all the seeds of the afflictions (kle ́sas) are burnt up, then does ...

current of self-energy.... He understands that the current of self, the life- force, active while he is alive, merges with the u ...