WISH YOU ALL A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR 2009

HI MY DEAR VALUABLE READER AND BLOG VISITORS,
"I WISH YOU ALL 'A WONDERFUL

NEW YEAR - 2009''

ALSO WISH YOU ALL TO ATTAIN GREAT PROSPERTY
AND PEACE UNTO YOUR LIFE.

"USE ALL YOUR EFFORTS

TO ACHIVE A NEW THING

TO THE NEW HEIGHTS

FROM THIS NEW YEAR"

-LOVE

SATYA

2) SATYA

"SATYA PRATISHTHAYAM KRIYA

PHALA SHRAYATVAM"

-Yoga Sutra 2.36

'Satya means truthfulness'.

what is truthfulness?

Being truthful unto one's ownself.it means being real,original,genuine,honest and virtuous.These all names are nothing but the same,-Truthfullness. One need to express truth even while having conversation.

Having control over our oral commitments and also refraining from speaking if the truth will do harm.So,think before making a statement or commitment and have concern over each and every word that comes out from your heart to mouth.please be soft and polite in your verbal language and see that, it must sooth the other person Ear and Heart.

One need to fallow the truth.Truth is universal.Thats why they call truth is God.It means truth is everywhere like god and also can not be destroyed.It will emerge like a avatar,when the time comes/when it is necessary.

When we say being truthfull, it is the seeker on the path who need to be truthful at any cast.Truth need not to be discriminated like good or bad/right or wrong;Rather truth is considered to be just truth.Understand truth can not be otherwise.

'Satyame Jayade'

'Only truth win. Nothing else can stand for long. Truth is eternal and immortal.'

AHIMSA

1) AHIMSA

"AHIMSA PRATISHTHAYAM KRIYA

PHALA SHRAYATVAM "

-yoga sutra 2.35

'Ahimsa means Non-violence.' or 'Harmlessness"

Ahimsa the first and most important step in Yama. Ahimsa is the most essential quality for a yoga practioner/ a spiritual aspirant who is on the path.patanjali says one should not trouble or do violence against any beings.one should not kill the other beings for the sake of food.In today's world the majority of the people are eating non-vegetarian.People are killing the other living beings for the sake of meat like coat,cow,pig,fish and so on.This should be avoided.

In the ancient days the yogis or saints used to live in the forest and do their tapas/sadana.They all eat less and they all used to eat fruits and other vegetables that too not by plugging it from the trees/plants directly.They just pick these fruits from the ground which is fallen from the tree on its own and eat it.it seems they lived a life with higher awarness,by not disturbing any other being for the sake of their individul survival/living.They all very much keen every being and of our whole Ecology System.

Today we could see many violence is happening everywhere in the name of war, terrorist attacks and fundamentalisim etc.one can see the world today and its violence just by switch on any news cahnnels or news paper;without which the news seems to be incomplete.this is our today state of violence.People are not bothering to disturb or killing the fellow beings.Every where we can see this.you can not see a place in the world where the violence is no more or it is becoming a very rare thing.

In yoga sutras the practioner of yoga should not harm anyone byanymeans/ anyform.we all are highly responsible to eradicate the violence and make the world free from it.

To make this happen as a individuals,as a practioner one need to adapt and apply non-violence unto one's life.That will/may change the world by and by.if you need to attain the divinehood be very aware of your every actions and all its effects and please concern that (I) you should not be the cause for any violence.

Ahimsa is the essential quality to conquer the spiritual world.it is the enterance ticket/pass to enter the world of yoga . As per patanjali the gaint of yoga anyone from any backround (Like caste,race,religions,nations...Etc.) can attain the ultimate of self-realization by simply adapting this patanjali yoga sutras and appling it by a keen regular practice in one's life.

YAMA

The Yama's

To explain the yoga sutra is not a simple task to do.one need to dedicate his life unto this.why means unless or untill you practice this you are not fit to say it out. The other thing here is once you practice and tasted this nectar of bliss, you will go to a different plane from where one can not look back and that too the bliss will become intense on and on .when one gone to that heights he may not need to look back;all his/her focus must be moving forward rather going back all the path we have travelled.

But, here in this yoga sutras patanjali is a man of miracle and yet seems to be a man of ordinary.He explain this sutras in a simple manner from the un-reachable heights where he is.

To his level of being, i always wonder how could he step down to explain each and every details of his experience's to such an extend and how copassion he is having toward us.? just amazing.no words will really suit to show our love and gratitude to him.

Being an exordinary is not difficult at many times somehow it happens. One can/will become certainly exordinary.But once you become an exordinary, it is very tuff for you to be just ordinary.Being just an ordinary person is a great thing in life. Like j.krishnamurthy used to tell his deciples"just be".Once a person achive the exordinary state ,it is difficult for him/her to become ordinary.Even our thought pattern will become more and more comolicated...Our mind refuse to think ordinary. We will make the simplest thing into the very complex mode.

How to be 'JUST BE'?. you can learn this art from patanjali.Though he is in such a heights he will exactly find you and throughly know your need and will come to your level of understanding and take your hand undo his hand and will lead you the way out.He will not show his fingers to show/guide the path you need to cross over,rather he will lift you like a mother who will guide the toddler how to walk...the same compassion you can get from him.that is the beauty of this patanjali yoga sutra's. So, Let us listen and fallow him.You need not to be worried.he is there to take care. he will take you.You be at ease..and travel along with him that will do.

The Yama's are nothing but the Restraints and how we will aplly and live our life.It is not a harsh rules to fallow just for the shake of your society.It is a soft rules to adapt in our everyday living.It is just being aware of your ownself with total consciousness.it is a kind of 'Suya Dharma'.

Here i am not intrested to give the literary meaning of the sutras.I prefer to give you the essence and let you live all these upto your own truth.because we are not in a 'Gurukula' ,where we can have a deeper interaction and understandings.let you be responsible to learn with much higher receptivness.That will give you all learning ability unto you.

The yamas are: -

1)Ahimsa - non-violence or harmlessness.
2)Satya - truthful,real,genuine and being virtuous.
3)Asteya - non-stealing ,non-misappropriating.
4)Brahmacharya - moderation ,chastity,continence
5)Aparagraha -non-possessiveness,without belongings,not accepting gifts.

6)Shaucha - purity of body and mind .
7)Santosha - satisfaction/contentment/ bliss.
8)Tapah -training the senses, austerities, ascesis.
9)Svadhyaya - self-study, reflection on sacred words

10)Ishvara pranidhana - surrender to the god/the ultimate

*Foot note- ishvara = creative source, causal field, God, supreme Guru or teacher; pranidhana = practicing the presence, dedication, devotion, surrender of fruits of practice

to be Continued...

YAMA'S

PRAYER

( in Sanskrit )

yogena cittasya padena vacam

(yo-gay-nuh chich-tah-syuh pah-day-nuh vah-cham)

malam sarirasya ca vaidyakena

(mah-lahm shah-ree-rah-syuh chuh vy-dyuh-kay-nuh)

yo pakarottam pravaram muninam

(yo-pah kar-oh-tahm prah-vah-rahm moo-nee-nahm)

patanjalim pranjaliranato smi

(pah-tahn-jah-lim prahn-jah-leer ah-nah-to-smee)

abahu prursakaram

(ah-bah-hoo-poo-roo-shah-kar-ahm)

sankha cakrasi dharinam

(shahn-kah chah-krah-see dar-ee-nahm)

shasra sirasam svetam

(sah-hah-srah sheer-ah-sahm shvay-tahm)

pranamami patanjalim

(prah-nuh-mah-mee pah-tahn-jah-lim)

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English

Let us bow before the noblest of sages Patanjali,

who gave yoga for serenity and sanctity of mind,

grammar for clarity and purity of speech and

medicine for perfection of health.

Let us prostrate before Patanjali,

an incarnation of Adisesa,

whose upper body has a human form,

whose arms hold a conch and a disc,

and who is crowned by a thousand-headed cobra

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Patanjali a man(he is worshiped as a god and an immortal guru , who have been guiding the people on the path) patanjali complied the ocean of vast yoga systems of india into a diciplines of streams called the EIGHT LIMPS of yoga(asthanga yoga).this is popularly known as PATANJALI YOGA SUTRA'S.

IT IS WRITTEN IN ONE OF THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD CALLED 'SANSKRIT'

􀂒 Eight Limbs of Yoga
1– Yama
2– Niyama
3– Asana
4– Pranayama
5– Pratyahara
6– Dharana
7– Dhyana
8– Samadhi

The one, who fallow this streams of yoga , is surely attain the divinehood of his/her highest being called the true-self or self realisation or enlightenment.

Each of these above steps has got various sub-rules/divisions.So,here let me explain everthing into a step by step.let us progress along while learning and reach the pinacle of the ultimate.need not to be in hurry.Go as slow as you can and imbibe the quality of the essence/content.That is very essential than to become mastering in this theory.

Yamas

A yama (Sanskrit), literally a "restraint", is a rule or code of conduct for living virtuously. The yamas comprise the "shall-nots" in our dealings with the external world.

Ten Yamas are codified as "the restraints" in numerous scriptures including the Shandilya and Varaha Upanishads, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Gorakshanatha, and the Tirumantiram of Tirumular. Patañjali lists only five yamas in his Yoga Sutras.

Ten Traditional yamas

The ten traditional yamas are:-
1. Ahimsa: abstinence from injury, harmlessness, the not causing of pain to any living creature in thought, word, or deed at any time. This is the "main" yama. The other nine are there in support of its accomplishment.
2. Satya: truthfulness, word and thought in conformity with the facts.
3. Asteya: non-stealing, non-coveting, non-entering into debt.
4. Brahmacharya: divine conduct, continence, celibate when single, faithful when married.
5. Kshama: patience, releasing time, functioning in the now.
6. Dhriti: steadfastness, overcoming non-perseverance, fear, and indecision; seeing each task through to completion.
7. Daya: compassion; conquering callous, cruel and insensitive feelings toward all beings.
8. Arjava: honesty, straightforwardness, renouncing deception and wrongdoing.
9. Mitahara: moderate appetite, neither eating too much nor to little; nor consuming meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs.
10. Shaucha: purity, avoidance of impurity in body, mind and speech. (Note: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras list Shaucha as the first of the Niyamas.)

The most contemporary of Ten yamas to address our today needs.

There are so many schools of yoga adapting different methodology.Each one of them are aiming to reach the pinnacle of the yoga.One school of thought may slightly vary from another,but it dosen't matter.They all ultimately fallow and come to the stream of patanjali .here in this context we are going to see the detail of the fallowing yama's.

1) Ahimsa - non-violence or harmlessness.

2)Satya - truthful,real,genuine and being virtuous.

3)Asteya - non-stealing ,non-misappropriating.

4)Brahmacharya - moderation ,chastity,continence.

5)Aparagraha -non-possessiveness,without belongings,not accepting gifts.
6)Shaucha - purity of body and mind .

7)Santosha - satisfaction/contentment/ bliss.

8)Tapah -training the senses, austerities, ascesis.

9)Svadhyaya - self-study, reflection on sacred words
10)Ishvara pranidhana - surrender to the god/the ultimate

ABCD...OF YOGA

HI LOOK UP...

THE ABCD OF YOGA IS HERE.

THE VARIOUS YOGA ASANA IS PERFORMED IN THE FORM OF LETTERS FROM A TO Z.

ONE WAY IT IS EASY TO CAPTURE/REMEMBER THE PARTICULAR ASANA'S.

ONE CAN MEMORIZE ALL THESE 26 ASANA'S BY JUST RECALLING THE ABCD...

GREAT IS IN'T?

IN INDIA IT IS USUAL

IT HAPPEN ONLY IN INDIA.THE YOGA ASANA'S IS VERY POPULAR AMONG EVERY INDIAN.EVEN THE LAYMAN KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOGA.HERE THE YOGA COMPETITION IS A VERY COMMAN PHENOMENON.THE PICTURE YOU ARE SEEING ABOVE IS SUCH TYPE OF COMPETITION.THE PARTICIPANTS WERE TRYING TO PROVE THEIR TALENTS THROUGH VARIOUS GIMMICKS OF YOGA ASANA.

UNIVERSAL

YOGA MEANS :-

"TUNING YOURSELF UNTO YOUR ORIGINAL-SELF AND

ATTUNING WITH NATURE AND BECOMING UNIVERSAL"

THE OBJECTIVES AND AIM OF YOGA

" YOGA MEANS THE ULTIMATE FLOWERING FROM WITHIN TO WITHOUT"

THE AIM OF OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS

As all thoughts can be reduced to five types of internal function, all objects can be
reduced to five Bhutas or elements. The five great elements are called Pancha-Maha-bhutas,and they are

(1) Ether (Akasa),

(2) Air (Vayu),

(3) Fire (agni),

(4) Water (Apas) and

(5) Earth(Prithivi).

The subtlety of these elements is in the ascending order of this arrangement, the
succeeding one being grosser than the preceding. Also the preceding element is the cause of the succeeding, so that Ether may be regarded as containing all things in an unmanifested form. Theelements constitute the whole physical cosmos. These are the real objects of the senses, and all the variety we see is made up of forms of these objects.

Our sensations are the five objects. We sense through the Indriyas or sense-organs. With the sense of the ear we come in contact with Ether and hear sound which is a reverberation produced by Ether. Touch is the property of Air, felt by us with the tactile sense. With the sense of the eyes we contact light which is the property of Fire. With the palate we taste things, which is the property of Water. With the nose we smell objects, and this is the property of Earth.

There is the vast universe, and we know it with our senses. We live in a world of fivefold objects. The senses are incapable of knowing anything more than these element. The internal organ, as informed and influenced by the objects, deals with them in certain manners, and this is life. While our psychological reactions constitute our personal life, the adjustment we make with others is our social life. The Yoga is primarily concerned with the personal life of man in relation to the universe, and not the social life, for, in the social environment, one’s real personality is rarely revealed. Yoga is essentially a study of self by self, which initially looks like an individual affair, a process of Self-investigation (Atma-Vichara) and Self-realization (AtmaTHEYOGA SYSTEM 4 Sakshatkara). But this is not the whole truth. The Self envisaged here is a consciousness of gradual integration of reality, and it finally encompasses all experience and the whole universe in its being.

While the psychology of Yoga comprises the functions of the internal organ, and its physics is of the five great objects or Mahabhutas, the philosophy of Yoga transcends both these stages of study. The Yoga metaphysics holds that the body is not all, and even the five elements are not all. We do not see what is inside the body and also what is within the universe of five elements. A different set of senses would be necessary for knowing these larger secrets. Yoga finally leads us to this point. When we go deep into the body we would confront its roots; so also in the case of the objects outside. When we set out on this adventure, we begin to converge slowly at a single centre, like the two sides of a triangle that taper at one point. The so-called wide base of the world on which we move does not disclose the truth of ourselves or of objects. At this point of convergence of ourselves and of things, we need not look at objects, and here no senses are necessary, for, in this experience, there are neither selves nor things. There is only one Reality, where the universal object and the universal subject become a unitary existence. Neither
is that an experience of a subject nor an object, where is revealed a knowledge of the whole cosmos, at once, not through the senses, mind or intellect,-for there are no objects,-and there is only being that is consciousness. Yoga is, therefore, spiritual, superphysical or supermaterial,because materiality is shed in its achievement, and consciousness reigns supreme. This is the highest object of Yoga, where the individual and the universe do not stand apart as two entities but come together in a fraternal embrace. The purpose of the Yoga way of analysis is an overcoming of the limitations of both subjectivity and objectivity and a union of the deepest within us with the deepest in the cosmos.

SOURCE:-THE YOGA SYSTEM

By SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

THE YOGI

'SHIVA'

THE ORIGIN OF THE VIGHYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA.WE CAN ALSO CALL HIM THE FOUNDER OF YOGA.WHO IS IMMORTAL AND LIVE EVER AND TAKE SHAPE OF A HUMAN BEINGS.BECAUSE HE IS THE GREATEST YOGI WHO CAN PHYSICALLY APPEAR OR DISAPPEAR

PRANAYAMA

The Breath Of Life

No one can live for more than a few minutes without breathing, yet how many of us are aware of the importance of proper breathing ?

We need to breathe slowly and deeply. Then the each and every body cells work in union and bring back harmony and health to the system. Here are three breathing techniques to the system. One should practice all of them everyday as many times as one can. But, minimum one should do 20 times each of these techniques to be able to feel the benefits.

Don't do it after a meal after meal. There should be a gap of two hours .so better perform this techniques before your meal. one can finish the technique and after ten minutes you can take your food.

Yogic Breathing (the complete breath)
This breathing exercise uses the lower, middle and upper part of the respiratory muscles. Start with abdominal breathing, followed by thoracic breathing and finally clavicle breathing. Reverse the order when you exhale.

Benefits : Increases lungs capacity, slow down respiration rate, calms the mind and can synchronizes both the hemispheres of the brain.

Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing)
This is a simple form of alternate nostril breathing.
‘Nadi’ means channel and refers to the energy pathways through which the prana flows. Shodhana means cleansing. ‘Nadi shodhana' means purification of nadis or channels.

Inhale through the left nostril, exhale through the right, inhale through the right and exhale through the left. This is one cycle/ one round of breathing.

Benefits : Strengthens the nervous system, helps conditions such as anxeity, depression, hypertension, and hypotension.

Bhramari (The humming bee)
‘Bhramari means bee’. The exhalation should be similar to a bee.
Place the thumb on your ears, shut your eyes and inhale, then exhale making the sound of the humming bee.

Benefits : Nourishes and calms the brain cells, smoothes the nervous, helps in treating insomnia.

YOGA

YOGA OR YUG IN SANSKRITH MEANS "UNION TO ONE'S HIGHER-SELF"