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The Science of Yoga - Topmost Yoga system
In B.G. 6.46. Krishna says,
Tapasvi bhyo ‘dhiko yogi
Jnanibhyo ‘pi mata dhika
Karmabhyas ca ‘dhiko yogi
Tasmad yogi bhavarjuna
Austere person
Knowledgeable person
A working person
Yoga – What it Is Not !
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• It is not mere physical exercise for shapely body, good health & long life
• Emaciated Renunciate in meditation
• Man with some extra-ordinary mystic powers
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Yoga – What it Actually Is ?
• “Union” in love between the individual consciousness & Supreme consciousness I.e. between Soul & God• Yogi is a person whose life & activities are oriented towards re-establishing his relationship with God
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Different Types of Human Beings
Human Beings
Law AbidersLaw Breakers
Karmis
JnanisDhyanis
Bhaktas
Sakama Niskama
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Law Breakers
• Hard working
materialists
• Sophisticated animals conditioned to the bodily concept of life
• Don’t believe in soul, rebirth, God & Spiritual world
• Don’t discriminate between sinful & pious activities eg Charvak (sweet for ear) philosophy
B.G. 3.27 prakrateh Kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah ahankarah vimudhatma Kartaham iti manyate
B.G. 9.21 Moghasa mogha karmano mogha jnana vicetasah rakshasim asurim caiva prakritim mohinim sritah
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• Make futile attempts at being controller &
Enjoyer ……… Eg. Sand Castles
Law Breakers …..contd
Jesus Said, “Don’t built your castles on sand built them on hard rock”
Krishna Said, “Keep focus on the soul, whatever you do for the soul is eternal
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Law Abiders
Sakama Karmis
• Perform pious activities with a fruitive intent
Kama – material desires
• Don’t know that both good and bad karma are binding
• In the madness, forget the goal of life. eg. Indra as a pig
• It is meant for gradual elevation & not an end in itself
• Mostly worship demigods, with material desires.
sakama- with material desires
The Science of Yoga - Topmost Yoga systemDifferent Types of
Yoga• According to Bhagavad-Gita there are four types of Yoga:
- Karma Yoga, - Jnana Yoga, - Astanga Yoga &- Bhakti Yoga.
“All other yoga's are subsets of these four yoga's”
• These are not different paths but are different rungs of the same ladder.
Karma
Jnana
Dhyana
Bhakti
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Niskama Karma Yoga
B.G. 3.30 Mayi sarvani karmani sannyasyadhyatma cetasahNirasir nirmamo bhutva yudhyasva vigata jvarah
O Arjuna, •surrendering all your works unto me with full knowledge of Me,•Without desires of profit,•With no claims to proprietorship &•Free from lethargy,……… fight
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• Process of performing work without selfish desire for personal gain
• Art of working without entaglement
B.G…. “Karmanyevadhikaraste……..”
Niskama Karma Yoga …..contd
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Jnana Yoga
• Impersonal, TranscendentalistEg. Frog in the well
• Elevation process to spiritual consciousness through the cultivation of philosophical knowledge
• Troublesome path
• Promoted to bhakti-yoga only through association of devotees
eg. Four kumaras & Sukhdev Gosvami
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Astanga Yoga• Mechanical meditative process meant to control the mind & senses to focus one’s concentration on the supreme
Ashta – Eight anga - limbsYama, niyam, asana , pranayam, Pratyahara, Dharana, dhyana & Samadhi
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Astanga Yoga
• Strict rules and regulations which are impractical in Kali-Yuga
• Dangers of falling in the trap of siddhis eg. Saubhari muni
• Arjuna rejects Astanga Yoga “Cancalam hi manah Krsna….”
• Perfection of Astanga Yoga is to focus on the paramatma within our heart.
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Three levels in understanding God
1 – Brahmajyoti – Jnana Yoga
2 – Paramatma realization – Astanga Yoga
3 – Personal form of the Lord – Bhakti Yoga
Eg. Seeing a mountain from various distances
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Bhakti Yoga• Yoga for selfless, ecstatic love for God through transcendental devotional service to the Lord
• Easiest means to derive our dormant, inherent constitutional position
• Includes three terms – servitor, served & service
Bhakti YogaThe Science of Yoga - Topmost Yoga
system
Nine processes of Devotional service
“Culmination of all yogas”
1. Sravanam (Hearing)
2. Kirtanam (chanting)
3. Smaranam (remembering)
4. Pada-sevanam (serving the lotus feet)
5. archanam(worship)
6. Vandanam (Offering Prayers)
7. Dasyam (servant)8. Sakhyam(friendship)
9. Atma-nivedanam (surrendering)
• The most powerful of the nine process of bhakti is the Hearing & Chanting of the Lord’s holy name
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Bhakti Yoga …..contd
Lord Krishna Says in B.G. 3.30
Yoginam api sarvesamMad-gatenantaratmana
Sradhhavan bhajate yo mamSa me yuktatamo matah
Translation: “Of all the yogis , the one with
great faith who always abides in Me, thinks
of Me within himself, and renders
transcendental loving service to Me is the
most intimately united with Me in yoga and
is the highest of all. That is My opinion.
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Methods of attaining Bhakti YogaGradual Method
STEP 0 : Astanga Yoga + Loving devotional service to the lord (Bhakti Yoga)
STEP 3 : Renouncing fruits + Knowledge + Control of mind & Senses by eight fold path + Meditation on Paramatma(Supersoul in the heart (Astanga Yoga)
STEP 2 : Renouncing fruits + Speculative Knowledge about Brahman + Austerity (Jnana Yoga)
STEP 1 : Renouncing the fruits of ones labor (Karma Yoga/Niskama Karma)
STEP 0 : Fruitive worker performing rituals(Karma Kanda)