“The journey of the Self, through the Self, to the Self”
“One who has conquered the mind, the mind is best of friends. The one who has failed to do so, the mind is the worst of enemies”
“You are what your desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed, As your will is so is your destiny”
“Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do, it is something that you become”
Bhagavad Gita
“What you think you become, What you feel you attract, What you imagine you create”- The Buddha
Yoga does not transform the way we see things, It transforms the person who sees it
Yoga takes you into the present moment. the only place where life exists.
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Yoga and Religion
Whereas the congregation and worshiping together is the basis of prayer in the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, the discipline of Yoga is the very foundation of the Dharmic faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism through which one realizes God and the Self. The practice of Yoga ultimately transforms the person to an enlightened being who becomes aware of God.
Yoga and the Arts
Through Yoga the classical dances of Bharatatayam, Kathak,Kathakali Odissi, Manipuri kuchipudi, Mohiniatam and Satriya were created and the classical dances South East Asia Javanese, Balinese and the Khmer classical dance. Yoga has influenced classical ballet. It is the basis of the Zen Garden and contributed to the refinement of Chinese and Japanese cultures
Yoga – Self defense and the martial arts.
The asanas and practice of Yoga is the foundation for all schools of Martial arts of South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia.
Yoga and Medical Science
Yoga is the oldest known holistic health care system and it included in theSuśrutasaṃhitā (6th century ad) as one of the medical systems.It is also one of the earliest forms of Psychoanalysis of deep self reflection. There are 300 million Yoga practitioners in the world of which 36 million are in the United states.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali are some of the principal scriptures that shaped Yoga from ancient times. but the practice of Yoga is as old as the Harappan civilization of 3000 bc. Some selected quotes
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Sanskrit: बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद्, Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad) is one of the Principal Upanishads and one of the first Upanishadic scriptures of Hinduism. Brihadaranyaka literally means “great wilderness or forest”. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is credited to ancient sage Yajnavalkya..
First chapter
The world is more than matter and energy, asserts Brihadaranyaka, it is constituted also of Atman or Brahman (Self, Consciousness, Invisible Principles and Reality) as well as Knowledge.
Second chapter
theory of dreams, positing that human beings see dreams entirely unto themselves because mind draws, in itself, the powers of sensory organs, which it releases in the waking state. It then asserts that this empirical fact about dreams suggests that human mind has the power to perceive the world as it is, as well as fabricate the world as it wants to perceive it. Mind is a means, prone to flaws.
Third chapter
The chapter presents the theory of perceived empirical knowledge using the concepts of graha and atigraha (sensory action and sense). It lists 8 combinations of graha and adigraha: breath and smell, speech and name (ideas), tongue and taste, eye and form, ear and sound, skin and touch, mind and desire, arms and work respectively. , “it is your Self which is inside all”, all Selfs are one, immanent and transcendent.
The verses in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka contain theories pertaining to psychology and human motivations, as a foundation to discuss psychological theories, the nature of psyche, and how body, mind and Self interact.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras is best known for its reference to ashtanga, eight elements of practice culminating in samadhi. The eight elements are yama (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (yoga posture), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration of the mind), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption). The main aim of practice is kaivalya, discernment of purusha, the witness-consciousness, as distinct from prakriti, the cognitive apparatus, and disentanglement of purusha from prakriti’s muddled defilements.
Questions to the forum.
How do Yoga compare to that of the Congregation in realizing God and the Self?
R&I – TP
Rohan Balthasar
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