... people in Europe who are enthusiastic about it, but the Charkha after all is a minor point. Disciple : There are people in India who regard Mahatmaji as a spiritual man because of his yama and niyama – the vows of self-control and simplicity and his Ahimsa, love etc. Sri Aurobindo : There is a great difference between the aim Of Patanjali and that of Gandhi and Tolstoi. The aim of... He Page 199 proposed to do it by replacing the general Rajasic movements of nature by the Sattwik ones. There no idea of morality or ethics in it, and they never made yama and niyama the aim of their effort. Their aim was to rise above the ordinary consciousness a ri even their idea of samyama – restraint was not dictated by morality. They wanted to gather power for ...
... practices such as aāsana, prānāyāma, japa and the like to be followed by all its practitioners. Nor does it formulate a set of ethical norms and principles, do's and don'ts, yama and niyama, as part of its core discipline. Hence the difficulty experienced by many sadhakas who feel at a loss as to the what and how of the practice of Sri Aurobindo' s Yoga. One practice which ...
... rise to a higher consciousness. He proposed to do it by replacing the general Rajasic movements of nature by the Sattwic There was no idea of practising morality in it, or of ethics. Besides, Yama and Niyama were never the aim of his efforts; the aim was to rise above the ordinary consciousness and even his idea of Samyama and Nigraha was not dictated by morality. He, wanted to gather power for a spiritual... is not necessary to become a prime-minister or a millionaire to do Karma yoga. He speaks of Raja yoga-but in Raja yoga also a certain purification of nature is required which is done by Yama and Niyama before the aspirant can succeed in meditation and attain Samadhi. In this yoga also something similar is to be done, though in a different manner. He has, first, to try to understand his ...
... consciousness in which the activities of the emotional and sensational life and of thought and consciousness arise. The primary movement of Raja Yoga is a careful self-discipline consisting of yama and niyama. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha (Ishwara ...
... "Yoga is sometimes identified exclusively with the system of Yoga expounded by Patanjali, - the system of Raja Yoga, which apart from discipline of purification of consciousness, (consisting of yama and niyama) and that of elementary pranayama and asanas taken from Hatha Yoga, proposes a method of arriving at concentration of consciousness (samadhi) by means of a gradual cessation of modifications ...
... silencing vibrations of the stuff of consciousness. It prescribes methods of self-control by which thought, action, behaviour can be regulated and purified and this is the aim of the processes of yama and niyama. But the chief emphasis is on the attainment of concentration of consciousness which liberates supernormal powers of the mind and leads them to the state of complete Silence. Here the specific ...
... fight", "Do not utter bad words", "Do not steal", "Do not lie", etc. In the ancient methods of spiritual discipline those methods formed the elementary and basic part—in Rajayoga they are called Yama and Niyama (ahims ā , asteya, etc.). The Buddhists also started their spiritual training with the same lessons; they named them the Panchashilas: good conduct ( vinaya), etc. Withdrawal (praty ā -h ā ...
... in public life which the ruling party in the country is not able to satisfy. Fasting as a method of achieving public welfare has found its limitations. Gandhi lays stress on the observance of Yama and Niyama and wishes to activate ethical values in the collective life. One may mention one result of the Gandhian outlook which seems to overlook some fundamental values. of Indian culture. In the stress ...
... dualism never obtained a firm foothold in this Country. "5 Patanjali's Raja Yoga begins with the suppression of the undulations of Chitta, the basic stuff of consciousness. It prescribes Yama and Niyama in order to establish firm control of the vital nature which enables the mind to concentrate. Meditation, Japa etc., are means to achieve Samadhi— complete absorption of the being into a state ...
... if not impossible, to turn our gaze within and dive into our depths. Purification is, therefore, of the utmost importance as a preliminary to the inner plunge. Rajayoga rightly lays stress on yama and niyama, the purificatory self-discipline, as an essential preliminary to dhāranā, dhyāna and samādhi. ¹ But, whereas in the Rajayoga purification is directed towards the stilling of the active ...
... the life-energy, but with the mind of man. It does not dispense with Âsana and Prânâyâma, but, relegating them to a subsequent stage, gives the primary Page 21 importance to Yama and Niyama, which are mental disciplines calculated to conquer the desires and passions of the lower nature of man and, by an increase of moral purity and calm, help the concentration of his conscious- ...
... of love, purity, courage and calm, without which siddhi in the Rajayoga is impossible. Patanjali prescribes the practice of the five yamas or regulating moral exercises, truth, justice and honesty, harmlessness, chastity and refusal of ownership, and the five niyamas or regulating moral habits, cleanliness and purity, contentment, austerity, meditation on Scripture, worship and devotion to God. In... Will in the spirit on whatsoever the Yogin wishes to possess, from the realisation of God to the enjoyment of mundane objects. But how is this silencing of the vrittis to be effected? for the yamas and niyamas only establish certain good habits of life, they do not thoroughly purify mind and heart. We have to do it by a process of removal by replacement, always depending on abhyasa, replacing bad vrittis ...
... divided in the established system under two heads, five yamas and five niyamas . The first are rules of moral self-control in conduct such as truth-speaking, abstinence from injury or killing, from theft etc.; but in reality these must be regarded as merely certain main indications of the general need of moral self-control and purity. Yama is, more largely, any self-discipline by which the rajasic... human being are conquered and quieted into perfect cessation. The object is to create a moral calm, a void of the passions, and so prepare for the death of egoism in the rajasic human being. The niyamas are equally a discipline of the mind by regular practices of which the highest is meditation on the divine Being, and their object is to create a sattwic calm, purity and preparation for concentration ...
... one's nature. People who come to him, he says, seem to be ready for the arising of Presence. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga, as in Eckhart's teaching, there is no mental code of conduct like the Yama—Niyama (do's and don'ts) of Patanjali or the Eightfold Path of Buddhism for the preparation and purification of the ordinary nature. Page 90 ...
... nirodhah), so that in stillness of consciousness the object of knowledge reveals all its contents. That state of stillness is called samadhi. The process for reaching samadhi has eight stages: yama, self-control; niyama, discipline; asana, stability of posture; pranayama, breath control; pratyahara, withdrawal of consciousness from multiplicity of objects; dharana, fixing of consciousness on a single object; ...
... Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Yoga of Tantra, Kundalini Yoga, Synthesis of Yoga. Knowledge, Understanding, Concentration, Meditation, Contemplation, Purification, Renunciation, Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi: Savikalpa and Nirvikalpa, Release from the identification with the Body, Heart, Mind and Ego, Realisation of Sachchidananda, Supermind ...
... an overflow of energy in unregulated channels. The Sattwic Man and the Spiritual Man The passage through sattwa is the ordinary idea of Yoga, it is the preparation and purification by the yama-niyama of Patanjali or by other means in other Yogas, e.g., saintliness in the bhakti schools, the eightfold path in Buddhism etc., etc. In our Yoga the evolution through sattwa is replaced by the cultivation ...
... inner body for an object of physical perfection. Raja Yoga selects the mental being in its different parts as its lever-power. It effects a change of the ordinary fleeting mind by a process of Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, so that it can dwell constantly in a fixed poise and reflect the luminosity of the Object that is pursued. The triple Path of Works ...
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