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the owner of the vehicle is quite compatible with a lack of desire to come in contact with the vehicle itself when a person has ...

accompaniments of Viksepa are the result of the predominance of Rajasic and Tamasic elements in our nature. A disturbed and dish ...

Perfection of the sense-organs and body after destruction of impurity by austerities. The word Siddhi is used in two senses. I ...

By (or from) self-study union with the desired deity. Svadhyaya attains its acme in communion with the Ista-Devata because tha ...

to God, we can by stages attain the supreme Enlightenment is something which should make us pause and marvel at the wonderful my ...

Posture (should be) steady and comfortable. The students of Yoga are generally familiar with the practices which are de- noted ...

Patanjali gives only three Sutras regarding the technique of Asanas but in these he has condensed all the essential knowledge co ...

By relaxation of effort and meditation on the ‘Endless’ (posture is mas- tered). For acquiring mastery of an Asana Patanjali g ...

deviate from a fixed position and it has to acquire the tendency to come back to its position of stability automatically. So med ...

outer or inner environment between which our life continually oscillates. These Dvandvas are of many kinds, some related to our ...

This having been (accomplished) Pranayama which is cessation of inspi- ration and expiration (follows). The reason why Pranaya ...

while discussing here very briefly some fundamental facts in this connection. This will clear the ground for understanding the i ...

for the sake of fun or for gaining supernormal powers of various kinds or even for has- tening his spiritual progress. These for ...

namely absence of irritation and tranquillity. This exercise is not attended with any risk and can be adopted with caution by th ...

undertaken until and unless one of the Asanas has been mastered. The practice of As- ana definitely but slowly prepares the body ...

practice must be preceded by a long course of Pranayama in which Puraka and Recaka also play a part. (It is in) external, inter ...

wards which the efforts of the Sadhaka should be directed. In the first place, the period of Kumbhaka has to be very gradually a ...

The fourth kind of Pranayama referred to in the Sutra under discussion is the real Pranayama for which all the previous practice ...

tler bodies comes into close and more intimate touch with the physical brain and it is possible to become aware of the subtler v ...

Pratyahara or abstraction is, as it were, the imitation by the senses of the mind by withdrawing themselves from their objects. ...