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.