8 Limbs of Yoga #55
Widely known among all of Mother India’s wide expanse of spiritual systems, Patanjala, the Eight-Limbed Yoga – also known as Raja Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga – represents the very essence of the art of spiritual practice for the many aspiring souls seeking Truth. Beginning with the five Yamas and five Niyamas, which are so often and mistakenly overlooked by novitiate practitioners seeking to experiment with the practices of hatha and asana alone, the path of authentic Yoga is laid out as its founder, Lord Patanjali, envisioned it – all the way to the top of the tree where the branches of mankind’s highest Consciousness shine in the scintilating sun of Nondual Awareness.
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Akshi Upanisad’s 7 Stages of Yoga #239
A rare and still somewhat secret Upanisad in this age, the Akshi Upanisad exists, awaiting discovery by intrepid spiritual travelers. Few beings have come across it and studied in this day and age. Within the Akshi Upanisad is a system of Yoga that sports 7 limbs, a precious gem of the Vedanta which can inform and lead the sincere aspirant up and out of the worlds of transmigration and into the Light of Freedom. This wsidom chart will help the seeker of Truth to locate it for scrutiny, which is best accomplished in company with an illumined preceptor.
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Chaturdasya Yoga #70
The Four Yogas — the “new religion” that Swami Vivekananda has recently brought back to our day, time, and age — is an ancient teaching system that was present as far back as the Dvapara Yuga in the time of Sri Ram. Later, Sri Krishna brought it forward in the Bhagavad Gita, enumerating some of its fine teachings in His own day and time. In His rendering, the Yoga of Meditation, only briefly mentioned in the Gita as a practice, is assigned the title of “Buddhi Yoga,” indicating the great necessity of possessing discriminative wisdom in spiritual life. The Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi, has emphasized this Yoga in this age, calling it back into vogue as a superlative discipline that both blends well with and empowers the other three Yogas of jnanam, bhakti, and karma.
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Controlling the Chitta Vrittis in Yoga #221
In the world of authentic, 8-limbed Yoga, the words klistha and aklistha have profound meaning to serious practitioners. Such beings know that unless the mind is rendered pure and free of vibrations, little chance of liberation, or kaivalya, will be possible. Good and bad vibrations infill the ordinary mind, causing its adhesion to its baser, darker core. Doing away with the latter by applying the former will help to eventually calm all chitta-vrittis. This will conduce to contentment, peace, and finally unalloyed bliss.
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Controlling the Five Senses in Yoga #7
It is not only Mother India that has taught that success in both earthly life, and spiritual life as well, is based early on upon the individual’s ability to control the five senses. But certainly no system in existence goes to such lengths and offers so much aid towards success in this substantial feat as Yoga. As the aspiring seeker after self-contol will find, spiritual doorways never encountered before will open up for the yogic practitioner to reveal the need for connections between the five elements, the five senses, and the five kinds of prana. This is the very basis of Yoga, and its basics too. The higher limbs of concentration, meditation, and samadhi await after such primal fusion is attained.
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Five States of the Mind-Field in Yoga #210
Lord Patanjali, revered by all of India and around the world, has given this prime teaching in the Yoga sutras. It is a directive that can help everyone, whether they believe in God or not, and whatever their religious preference may be. To know, and then study the five states of the mind, is tantamount to coming to know the mind, thus beginning to turn it into a friend rather than an enemy. With lethargy and restlessness done away with by yogic practices, the real point of life and living can then take up all of our time — as we learn to fully identify with our true Self and live in harmony with all other beings.
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Insinuation of the Five Kleshas in Spiritual Life #209
In Patanjali’s authentic Yoga, the seer gives us his short list of the most detrimental impediments that stand in the way of following and attaining to Yoga — Union with Reality. These are the five kleshas, interpreted later by the Father of Vedanta as five hells in which the ignorant minds dwells. Thus, heaven is not up in space, and hell is not down under the ground; they both reside in the human mind. Taking to certain yogic disciplines advised by Patanjali is the way out of hell. It is also the way beyond heaven to blissful transcendence. Putting the five kleshas down and systematically climbing the eight limbs of the eternal tree is all that separates the soul from realization.
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Karma Yoga — The Philosophy of Work #90
The great Swami Vivekananda, who brought authentic dharma to the west in the form of Vedanta and Yoga in 1893, has raised the status of Karma Yoga to an elevated position. No longer is it to be considered somehow inferior or subservient to the other three main Yogas of Vedanta. With the world in the predicament that it is today, in possession of vast wealth and power but generally bereft of spirituality and compassion, the yoga of selfless works both fills the crying need for service of suffering humanity and fits the criterion for it as well. This superlative swami has stated, in heartfelt fashion, that it is as important to dry the tears of the widow and place a piece of bread into a hungry mouth as it is to seek and attain the highest illumination. Moksha is our true nature; we already have it. It is suffering humanity that needs our attention.....
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Kundalini’s Palace and its Seven Gates #54
The system of Seven Lotuses, called “Chakras” in Sanskrit, is a gift of the Kundalini Yoga darshana of Mother India. It simultaneously describes a set of subtly vibrating vortexes within the aspiring human soul while revealing welcome points of inner arrival to all intrepid spiritual wayfarers who would commune there. Like a “palace with seven gates,” as the Great Master once stated, the ecstatic music that exudes from this “Home of Peace” is the entralling sound of the Voice of God Itself. To hear It is to lose all attraction for mundane human convention forever.
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Nine Obstacles to Yoga #57
Yoga as union with Divine Reality is consummate and final. But how few beings in the physical realm and body actually experience such unity? Therefore, here on earth, Yoga as method and practice is extremely precious, and the practitioner ought to be well informed as to what obstacles are going to come up once this highest and best of purifying systems is initiated and adhered to. Patanjali has formulated these main impediments into four categories, making it clear as to where the seeker must look and concentrate.
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Paravairagya & Aparavairagya #298
The principle of detachment, termed vairagya in Sanskrit, is crucial to spiritual life and its ongoing stages. There are also several levels of detachment, as this wisdom chart illustrates. The father of Yoga details these steps copiously so that aspiring seekers can know when to exert personal will, when to wait on time and circumstance, and when to recognize and claim higher stages for themselves. At the height of it all is Paravairagya, wherein all attachments have been released and the best of peace and equanimity has been attained.
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Patanjali’s & Shankara’s Yoga of the Mind #119
In the incomparable world of Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality, there can be no finer example of the sublime and the subliminal than a meeting of the great minds of two fully realized luminaries. In this teaching chart, a grandsire of Yoga meets with a perfected exemplar of Advaita Vedanta to put forth the beloved darshana of Yoga as it has rarely been seen before. Masterfully inserted into the traditional Eight Limbs of Yoga are six other complementary concomitants that bring Patanjali’s system from the second century, forward to a more contemporary age. For those who have long cherished the integration of Yoga and Vedanta as a superlative pathway in spiritual life, a study of this unique blending of fine philosophies and facile minds will be welcome indeed.
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