tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647842839841951189.post3580211718518727209..comments2023-09-06T09:26:23.563-04:00Comments on savor everyday: to be a child again...Mia (Savor Everyday)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14765585509553777607noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1647842839841951189.post-34934875105930118572010-03-10T03:25:39.347-05:002010-03-10T03:25:39.347-05:00"ayurveda" is a Sanskrit word that
mea..."<a href="http://www.sivanandabahamas.org/AYURVEDA.htm" rel="nofollow">ayurveda</a>" is a Sanskrit word that <br /><br />means "to join." Yoga, then, is union and the way to union. What do we join through yoga?First, <br /><br />we join our awareness to our own essential being: spirit that is consciousness.In yoga philosophy <br /><br />this is known as the atman or self. Next we join our finiteconsciousness to the Infinite <br /><br />Consciousness: God, the Supreme Self (Paramatman).In essence they are eternally one, and <br /><br />according to yogic philosophy all spirits originally dwelt in consciousness of that oneness. But <br /><br />in the descent into the material world for the purpose of evolving and extending its scope of <br /><br />consciousness, the individual spirit has lost its awareness of that eternal union, and therefore <br /><br />los the capacity to live in and manifest the union on a practical level.Through yoga the lost <br /><br />consciousness can be regained and actualized in the individual's practical life sphere. So <br /><br />profound and so necessary is yoga to the evolving consciousness, there is no more important <br /><br />subject in the world.Regarding this, a yogi-adept of the twentieth century, Dr. I. K. Taimni, <br /><br />remarked in his book The Science of Yoga: "According to the yogic philosophy it is possible to <br /><br />rise completely above the illusions and miseries of life and to gain infinite knowledge, bliss, <br /><br />and power through enlightenment here and now while we are still living in the physical body. And <br /><br />if we do not attain this enlightenment while we are still alive we will have to come back again <br /><br />and again into this world until we have accomplished this appointed task. So it is not a question <br /><br />of choosing the path of yoga or rejecting it. It is a question of choosing it now or in some <br /><br />future life. It is a question of gaining enlightenment as soon as possible and avoiding the <br /><br />suffering in the future or postponing the effort and going through further suffering which is <br /><br />unnecessary and avoidable. This is the meaning of Yoga Sutra 2:16: 'The misery which is not yet <br /><br />come can and is to be avoided.' No vague promise of an uncertain postmortem happiness this, but a <br /><br />definite scientific assertion of a fact verified by the experience of innumerable yogis, saints, <br /><br />and sages who have trodden the path of yoga throughout the ages."rajanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16697632670327578348noreply@blogger.com