Ayurveda teaches us how to have a long and healthy life. Yoga teaches us how to efficiently use this long, healthy life to attain happiness and enlightenment.In other words, Ayurveda gives us a healthy body and Yoga gives us a reason to live. Ayurveda …
Portion on Liberation – Cause and Effect To free yourself from death, you have to find a way not to be born. That is why enlightenment is the goal of the yogi. Enlightenment is the realization that goes beyond birth and death. Enlightenment is the real …
Portion on Accomplishments – Meditation Meditation, as Patanjali described, is a Hatha Yoga practice. The meditative state is when you can watch your mind think and your body move. So what keeps us from sitting still as we stop, look and listen? What s …
All quotations from The Textbook of Yoga Psychology by Shri Brahmananda Saraswati II.1 Tapah Svadhyaya Ishwara Pranidhanani Kriya Yogah Your desire and intention must be hot. You must make the effort to continuously study the subject. You must devote a …
All quotations from The Textbook of Yoga Psychology by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati except where noted I.1 Atha Yoga Nushasanam This is Yoga as I have observed it in the natural world. I.2 Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodhah When you stop identifying with your …
The root word buddh means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is called a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature. When Buddhists say “I tak …