59030 eb i-224 .pdf

Swami Adidevananda refers here to Yoga’s efficacy for stabilizing mental disturbances, which have adverse effects on the body. T ...

All is suffering to discriminating persons, because of pain resulting from change, anxiety, and their subliminal impressions (sa ...

realization of Self as pure consciousness, is stoppage of the activities of the mind, and consequent development of vivekaja-jñ ...

not mere well-being of body and mind, the well-being that Yoga seeks in ultimate liberation requires self-discipline of body and ...

disturbances to the mind. For example, untruthfulness often perpetuates complications engendering distress in self and others. T ...

Aparigraha, non-acquisitiveness, is the fifth and final yama. This principle calls for repudiation of all possessions and circum ...

“You eat what you are.” In other words, dietary preferences reflect a person’s nature as sattvic, rajasic, or tamasic. The secon ...

‘good,’ for the yogin gives up the fruit of action, and not ‘bad,’ because he does not perform actions [YBh. 4.7]. Yoga’s treatm ...

without desire, and Karma Yoga, the yoga of action: acting to carry out one’s responsibility without attachment to the good or b ...

based practices of yoga are ̄asanaor postures, pra ̄Ónay ̄ ̄amaor control of vital energy by control of breath, and praty ̄ah ̄a ...

and action is deeply rooted in physicality, and Yoga makes use of this fact by providing physical disciplines effective for gain ...

The whole body is involved in this process, with the senses, mind, intel- ligence, consciousness and self.^42 He describes ̄asan ...

result of the regular practice of asana ̄ is a more acute awareness of one’s body and its functioning. Daily ̄asanaprovides an o ...

not allow the vital currents in the body to leak out and get exhausted. The postures may be said to be helpful in both these dir ...

In Western concepts of person, ‘spirit’ can mean a mediating force between a person’s body and soul. In physiological terms, bre ...

the lungs are the receptacle for pr ̄aÓna. In puraka(√pur ̄ , ‘to fill’), the lungs are filled with air and the breath is held. ...

of water in a pipe. When the water is flowing in one direction placidly, silt and other things may be deposited at the bottom an ...

this region in effect ‘burns’ the defiling apana ̄ upon inhalation. Equally important is the expulsion of this burnt residue, ac ...

The Yoga-bha ̄Ósyaexplains what is meant by the senses imitating the na- ture of the mind: “The senses are restrained, like the ...

Unity, named by Eliade the supreme goal of life in the Indian tradition, and “a dream that has obsessed the human spirit from th ...