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Meaning of Yoga
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Jules: These yoga poses are getting quite challenging. I am still trying to do a headstand. I admire those fellas in class who can do it so effortlessly. YogiM: I am happy to see your enthusiam for yoga. Although I did explain to you the last time the reason why we make ourselves perform some challenging asanas (or poses in yoga jargon), I did promise to expound further on its philosophy. Jules: Oh no, here we go again. Hope you are not going to start complicating an exercise routine. YogiM: OK. I will keep it simple. Yoga is not about being able to do the headstand, scorpion or peacock poses. It is more about being the presence of mind to the pose. You would have done well if your mind was in awareness of your body while in the simplest poses than to be watching in envy your yoga class mate's ability to do the headstand and you attempting to emulate his feat. Our mind is constantly playing tricks with us to the extent that we fail to see the truth hidden by our biasness. It is in awareness that we are able to see reality. The body provides us with an anchor for our monkey mind so that we be able to view things just as they truly are. It provides a point for the mind to focus. Jules: I hear this thing call the eight limbs of yoga. What is that? YogiM: Are you sure you want me to explain further? Look who is inviting greater complication! No, I am just kidding. It is actually quite simple. The ultimate aim of yoga is for us to achieve union with the absolute pure consciousness where we will find bliss. Lets face it. This world is not exactly the most satisfactory of places. Let me ask you, how often are you unhappy on a scale of 1 to 10. Jules: I would say 5. YogiM: I think you are not exactly honest with yourself in giving that answer. Even while sitting and doing nothing, our idle mind is telling us we are bored, we should be earning more money, or if we only had not eaten so much, etc.. You can see that the most mundane of things can be unsatisfactory let alone getting the most common of response of not wanting to work if everyone had a choice. So what is causing this dissatisfaction? Jules: The state or circumstances of our life that we are all in I would say. YogiM: Wrong. It is the state of our mind. It is all about perception and not the situation. You can have the same thing happening to two persons with one feeling frustrated while the other feeling equanimous. So yoga is a systematic program to enable one to achieve a balance state of equanimity. After hatta yoga, there is pranayama (breath control), prathihara (detachment), dharna (concentration), dyana (meditation) and finally samadhi (absorption). So you see the sages have got it all figured out about five thousand years ago (that is how old yoga is!) on the approach one should take to find bliss. Pick up a book on hatta yoga pradipika and you would be struck by the science of man so well detailed within its contents. We will talk more another day. Happy practising. O hare om my friend.Posted 1 year ago #
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This is really useful tips for everyone, yoga is most popular exercise, and I will going thought your tips, this is safe and useful and easy to do.
The main think is that there is not side effect of yoga, but just aware from injuries, be safe.
Posted 2 months ago #
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