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Adi Shankara, in his commentary on Yoga Sutras, distinguishes Dhyana from Dharana, by explaining Dhyana as the yoga state when there is only the "stream of continuous thought about the object, uninterrupted by other thoughts of different kind for the same object"; Dharana, states Shankara, is focussed on one object, but aware of its many ...
Yoga is a secret weapon for improving your mental and physical health, says Vernon Williams, MD, a neurologist, pain specialist, and founding director of the Center for Sports Neurology and Pain ...
Bhatta [13] clarifies Santosha as inner contentment, a state of inner peace. Yoga Darshana, which includes commentary of Rishi Vyasa on Patanjali's Yogasutra, defines contentment as the inner state where, "exists a joyful and satisfied mind regardless of one's environment, whether one meets with pleasure or pain, profit or loss, fame or ...
1. “True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about ...
Within the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy, niyamas are described in the eight limbs (steps; ashtanga yoga) of yoga. [7] Niyama is the second limb which includes virtuous habits, behaviors, and observances (the "dos"). [8] [9] These virtues and ethical premises are considered in Hinduism as necessary for an individual to achieve a liberation or ...
The Yoga Vasistha is a syncretic work, containing elements of Advaita Vedanta, Yoga, Samkhya, Jainism, Pratyabhijña, Saivite Trika, and Mahayana Buddhism, thus making it, according to Chapple, "a Hindu text par excellence, including, as does Hinduism, a mosaic-style amalgam of diverse and sometimes opposing traditions".
The Upeksha Yoga school foregrounds equanimity as the most important tenet of a yoga practice. [ 5 ] In many Yoga traditions, the virtue of equanimity can be one of the results attained through regular meditation , combined with regular practice of pranayama , asanas, and mental disciplines, which clear the mind and bring one inexorably toward ...
Samkhya-Yoga believes that the Puruṣa cannot be regarded as the source of inanimate world, because an intelligent principle cannot transform itself into the unconscious world. This metaphysics is a pluralistic spiritualism, a form of realism built on the foundation of dualism. [32] Yoga-philosophy adopts the theory of Guṇa from Samkhya.