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Before doing my YIC (YOGA Instructor Course) course in S-VYASA (Swami Vivekananda YOGA AnusandhÄna SamsthÄna), I was in the perception that I knew yoga as I had learned and was practicing few ÄsanÄs & prÄį¹ÄyÄma <got to learn from a doctorate in Yoga Dr.Rajesh Sir in Mangalore> from a decade. I presumed I knew it and joined the course to learn few more of them and to get certified. But only later that I realized that the ÄsanÄs & prÄį¹ÄyÄma are just a part of yoga, it’s a much deeper philosophical subject and there is loots to explore!
I believe most of you are also in that perception and hence I have made an attempt to write this blog..
So what is YOGA???
PÄtaƱjala Yoga (also known as Raja Yoga) is one among the six systems of Indian philosophy (known as satdarsanas). PÄtaƱjali is a maharisi (an intellect & a researcher) who lived somewhere between 900 – 100 B.C. and compiled – PÄtaƱjali Yoga Sutras (PYS). Sutras means short sentence – an aphorism having subtle in-depth meaning. The PYS is divided into 4 padas/groups and consists of 196 sutras/formulae. He gives several sÄdhana techniques known as Asthanga Yoga in PYS. <PYS is mind blowing, anyone who reads it with the meaning is sure to become an ardent fan of this intellect PÄtaƱjali, I am not an exception, will write another blog in detail on this..>
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