Tag: Yoga
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Understanding the Practice of Vedanta
Here is an easy understanding of the path to Moksha as laid out in Vedanta tradition. Having said that, I would like to highlight that there is a certain state of mind-body state that is a necessary prerequisite for one to even begin contemplating the possibility of taking the path. This status is called ‘mumukṣutvam’,…
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55 Pearls of Wisdom from ‘The Autobiography of a Yogi’
I took to reading this book again after over two decades. A new friend was instrumental in getting me to re-read it and I opened up to this opportunity to see where it takes me. Quite unexpectedly it felt I have been reading it for the first time and the book, with its elegant prose,…
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Ashtanga Yoga: The Eight Steps on the Ladder of Yoga
Sage Patañjali constituted the Aṣṭāṅga Yogaḥ system to help prepare for Meditation and reap the benefits thereof. Patañjali’s Aṣṭāṅga Yogaḥ is an important, preparatory, eight-fold discipline, but not an end in itself as, without the teaching of Vedāntaḥ, one does not gain mokṣaḥ. It consists of:• yamaḥ, (five) prohibitions• niyamaḥ, (five) injunctions• āsanam, posture• prāṇāyāmaḥ,…
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Real Meaning of Yoga
What we pronounce as Yoga, has the form yogaḥ in Sanskrit and it is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘Yuj’, meaning ‘to join’ or ‘to yoke’ or ‘to unite’. It means communing with the absolute, non-changing constant that we may call Consciousness or God or Oneness or Is-ness. (Names are many, but the name is…
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