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Every person in this world is craving for peace and happiness. Our ultimategoal is to achieve happiness.

But what is the magical word that promises individuals joy, peace andprosperity in their personal life and shows them a path to peace.

The word is Yoga,the path of Ashtanga Yoga which has been propagated byMaharshi Patanjali is the answer we are looking for.

This is the only solution to our quest for Ashtanga Yoga provides us withindividual and social well beings, physical fitness, intellectual awakening,mental peace and contentment of the soul.

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Yama Niyamasana Pranayama Pratyahara

Dharanadhyana Samadhyoshta angani!!

Patanjali has propounded the famous Eight fold Path of disciplines,

which shows a way of living in the world and how to interact andbehave in society.

All aspect of these eight limbs or fold or paths called Ashtanga

Yoga. Maharshi Thus explain with the help of Sutra

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YAMANon-violence, truthfulness,abstaining from appropriatingthings belongings to other,purity in thoughts, words &deed. And non-acquisition ofthings are the essential,components of Yama. Yama isthe first discipline in attaining

perfection.

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NIYAMA

The collective disciplines of

Niyama are Physical & mentalpurity, contentment, austerity,

self study of holy books andscriptures and devotion to god.One must dedicate the fruitsand ones action to god.

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ASANA

Posture or asana is that whichis firm and pleasant . An easyand steady posture enablesthe sadhaka to practicemeditation without feelingstrain physical discomfort.

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PRANAYAMAPranayama helps in retrainingand regulating breath.Rhythmic breathing calmsdown the mind. SwamiVivekananada explained thistrough a story in which aminister made his escape anddescended forms the tower bymeans of a rope and silken

thread, tied to a beetle withhoney to its feelers

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PRATYAHARA

Pratyahara is withdrawingthe senses or organs from

their contact with theobjects in the externalworld. Sri Ramakrishna hasexplained it thus : themoment an elephantstretches out its trunk to eatneighbors garden, it gets ablow from the iron goad ofdriver

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DHARANAFixing the mind on an objectis called Dharana. When thechittva or mind-stuff isconfined and limited to acertain place its Dharana orconcentration

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DHAYNAAn unbroken flow of knowledge in that object is

Dhyanam. The mind tries tothink of one object to holditself to one point and if themind succeeds in receivingthe sensations only throughthat part or point and if themind can keep itself in thatstate for some time, it iscalled Dhyana

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SAMADHIWhen that giving up all forms,reflects only the meaning it isSamadhai. That comes whenin meditation the form or theexternal part is given up.

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Discrimination

Misunderstanding ormisinterpretation ofscriptures will ruin us.One must judiciouslyexercise ones power ofdiscrimination toprotect oneself from theinfluence of the wickedin this world. SriRamakrishna taughtthis with a parable andadvised us to keepourselves away fromthe evil minded

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Concentration

Success in life mostly dependson the power of concentration.Clear thinking and intellectualunderstanding are very easyfor a concentrated mind.Arjuna could shoot at the

target with his tremendouspower of concentration

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compassionBhagavan Buddha preached toking Bimbisar and others not tokill of innocent animals forperforming Yajnas. Buddhascompassion for the sacrificialgoat transformed the heart ofthe king and he became a

follower of the Buddha

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Branches of Yoga or Schools of Yoga

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RajaYogaRaja yoga is the science of controlling the ever volatile mind,Brahma is said to have meditated. Patanjalis yoga sutras explainscientifically the art of practicing Raja Yoga. Meditation enfoldsour divine nature and solves all psychological problems.

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KarmaYogaKarma yoga is the saving mantra for humanity in this age. To put in the

words of Sri Ramakrishna devoted each to his own duties, man attains to

the highest perfection.

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Bhakti YogaBhakti or divine love makes God closest to a spiritual aspirant. He canbe loved & adored as a spouse or a child or a mother or a servant or afriend, as did the Gopis of Vrindavan, Yoshoda, Sri Ramakrishna,Hanuman, Arjun ,Meera respectively.

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Jnana YogaJnana Yoga or the Path ofKnowledge is the shortest but most difficultpath for one to tread. One has to deny or negate the apparent throughconstant discrimination between real and the unreal. SriRamakrishna,his Guru Tota Puri,Sri Shanakaracharya, SriRamanamaharshi & Swami Vivekananda were the great exponents of

this path ofKnowledge

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Strength andfearlessness

When Arjuna, frightened anddeluded refuse to fight ,SriKrishna exhorts him to shake offhis unmanliness and faint-heartedness. The great heroArjuna realize that fearlessnessitself is strength

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May all my limbs remain unimpaired and my soul

unconquered.

There is the Light of Lights which is my inner being. The peerless spiritwithin living beings.. The immortal light.

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My ears open to hear. my eyes open to see. The Light that is hiddenwithin my spirit shines beyond it. My mind roams with its thoughts in

the distance. What shall I speak and What really shall

I think.

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Courtesy by RKM ,Hyd & DA,lifescape

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