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The Eightfold Path of Yoga By Shivani Bhatt
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| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
Patanjali, the father of Yoga is a doctor too large. Should have lived during 200 BC to 200 AD, a book Yoga Sutra is a guide to living a simple and healthy. Yoga Sutra has 195 aphorisms or sutras that did not explain yogic postures, or asanas. Yoga as described by people who not only about postures, or asanas, and welfare. Patanjali Yoga is the way of life. Book is essentially an outline for an ethical life and the life of a principled including yoga to science in daily life.
The basis of the teachings of Patanjali is entwined in the way of eight yoga or ashtanga yoga. This is the teachings of suggestions for a better life. Eight-fold path is as follows:
Yama means of social behavior. He tells you how to treat other people and the world around you. This is the correct values. Also called to do and DON'Ts. There are five yamas: Nonviolence (ahimsa), truth and honesty (satya), Nonstealing (asteya), Nonlust (brahmacharya), Nonpossessiveness (aparigraha),
Niyama means discipline and personal responsibility. This tells us how to treat ourselves. Also called the observances. There are five niyamas: Purity (shauca), Contentment (santosha), Austerity (tapas), study of holy texts (svadhyaya), and live with the awareness of the Divine (ishvara-pranidhana).
Asana. Yoga is generally understood as do the various asanas. According to Patanjali, "The yoga posture is a stable and easy." Ancient sages used yoga to prepare for meditation. To think that people need to sit down in a posture for a long time, the body must be flexible and agile, and at the same time cooperation to achieve this. One should be able to concentrate without getting disturbed by the environment during meditation.
Pranayama. Prana or life force or energy everywhere. He was present in every living creature. He flows into us through our breath. Pranayama refers to the actual control of this force. Pranayama key action is inhaling the breath, breath retention, and finally, exhaling it out. As was explained Iyengar basis under guard at the back of the extent, "A yogi life is not measured by the number of days, but with the amount of breaths. Because of this, he followed the exact pattern of rhythmic slow, deep breathing." Pranayama cleanses the system and the mental disturbances such as restlessness, tension, agitation, etc. to facilitate the concentration of desperation easier.
Pranayama is usually done after asanas.
Pratyahara. Pratyahara indicates withdrawal of senses. That happened at the time of meditation, breathing exercises, or the practice of yoga postures. That happens when someone or concentrate to focus inwards, or in himself. Controlling yourself is very difficult, once mastered, such as itching interference, sound, smell etc. will not be felt at the time of meditation.
Dharana. "Concentration is binding thought in one place," - Patanjali
Concentration or dharana is thought that the training will be focused on one place, the image, even things like the subject, a candle, flowers or even a mantra. There is no effort to concentration, it must be very soft. Thoughts on the concentration mode, once people lose any sense of passing time.
Dhyana. Dharana leads to dhyana (meditation state). He is disturbed that the state of meditation. Unlike what is understood, the goal of dhyana no loss of consciousness, the aim is to increase awareness and unification with the universe. If you are concerned about the distraction you do not concentrate only meditating. To achieve peace with the meditation that looks at every aspect of people, both who work, or enjoy shopping.
Samadhi. This is the final goal of yoga, as described by Patanjali. Samadhi according Vyasa control is a function of awareness or "samadhan". Tamara also means that the full union with God or to join with the divine. This is a very high state of awareness or enlightenment.
In addition to a guide to practice yoga, the sutras of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga also shows the moral and right way of life.
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