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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali explain all “ingredients” of yoga with easy to understand analogies. This page provides short summary to get you hungry for yoga.
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Yama consists of not causing pain, not lying, non-stealing, non-possessiveness and non-indulgence.
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Niyama consists of purity, contentment, accepting pain, study of spiritual books and self-surrender (worship of GOD)
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Asanas are poses that bring comfort and steadiness to the physical body.
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Pranayama means control of movements of inhalation and exhalation.
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Pratyahara is when the eyes, nose, tongue, ears and sense of feeling withdraw themselves from the objects.
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Dharana is binding of the mind to one place, object or idea.
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Dhyana is the continuous flow of cognition towards that object. It’s a what happens after concentration.
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Samadhi is the culmination of meditation. Experiencing oneness with the Creation and the Creator.
NOT A RELIGION, NOR A PHILOSOPHY BUT A TECHNOLOGY
Each of the 8 limbs is equal to the others and necessary. Yamas and Niyamas are fundamental and may remind you of the Ten Commandments of Christian and Jewish faiths as well as the ten virtues of of Buddhism. The spiritual process and the technology of yoga predates all religion. Before human beings started thinking of forming religious groups to fracture humanity in a way that you can’t fix them, the idea that a human being can evolve himself came from Shiva - the first yogi.
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