Yoga embodies the most important features of oriental lifestyle.
Vedantists, Buddhists, Jains, Saktas and others have accepted the fundamental principles of yoga as the basis of healthy living. ...
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The relationship between a word and its meaning is eternal.
Vedic visionaries used the word 'yoga' to denote the connection between verses and words.
Similarly, various Vedic texts including the ...
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Scholars have defined classical yoga in different ways through the ages.
Yoga and yogis carry countless definitions from across ancient texts. Given below is a compilation of the principal ...
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We all know what pain is.
Prehistoric humans felt pain as they were scorched by heat and lashed by the vagaries of nature.
Modern humans also feel pain as they are scorched by stress and strain ...
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The objective of yoga is to weaken the five afflictions; ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and fear of death.
These are the five pains, the five-fold ties that bind us.
Ignorance is the ...
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According to Patanjali, yoga is the ability to control the modifications of the mind with one's will-power.
Regulating the fluctuations of the mind is not a casual pursuit, and is only achieved ...
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Yoga is a holistic health science that has been practiced since time immemorial.
According to classical yoga texts, the aim of yoga is samadhi.
To achieve samadhi, one should strive to unite ...
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