Namaste, Yoga adepts!
Posted on March 27, 2008
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There is a vast ocean of knowlege on the subject of Yoga
There are by default an equal amount of definitions on the subject of Yoga as there are individuals alive on earth and every single one of these definitions is the only correct one. Indeed, this very definition could be classified as a sutra
Indeed, truth is like a many facetted diamond: it changes when there is an infinitestimal difference of the angle from which one looks at it. Two people looking at the same diamond at the same time will definitely and invariably produce quite remarkably different descriptions of the same stone. No wonder diamonds are referred to as the masters of the mineral kingdom.
The first great Yoga master to use the technique of “mind bogling” expressions of truth (or Sutra) was Master Patanjali, who left us a treasure of sutras. They are also known as the Upanishads and are usually referred to as aphorisms. It is rumored by adepts of Yoga that if one manages to understand them all, and there are several hundred, illumination of the pupil happens automatically.
The people who are born and raised in the West are ill equiped to deal with Yoga, that is easily understood. The extremely competitve environment, the continual repression of non scientifically proven fact, the speed at which people need to live to keep up constitutes a formidable barrier to surmount if one is to start with the practice of Yoga.
The benefits one can derive from taking up the practise of Yoga are too numerous to be addressed here, a number of posts on this particular aspect of Yoga will follow.
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