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"