Posted on February 11, 2010.
The introduction to the Types of Yoga, Philosophy & Practices
The yoga is a powerful tool to help blooms you and attains your potential full human. The seeds all are inside you, the yoga is water, the sun light, the nutriments and love they need to do your life vibrating, beautiful and a lot of soft perfume. The this is not a religion, the this is really a science with which to develop your body, your spirit and your spirit.
The ultimate objective of Yoga, that means literally, the Union, is to combine you with the Universal Source. You can call this Source Universal by any name that you wish, God, brahmane, Allah, Christ Conscience, Buddha Nature etc, the Yoga is a way to bring you to the realization that you and this Universal Source inseparably is the One.
There are a lot of branches of Yoga, as the Yoga of Bhakti, the Yoga of Hatha, the Yoga of Jnana, the Yoga of Laya, the Yoga of Raja, the Yoga of Karma, the Yoga of Kundalini to name someone. These all have the same an objective, a unification with the Universal Source, but every to follow to a different way to obtain there. Depend on your personality one or the other way can suit you better.
Here a description of certain ones of the major branches of Yoga:
* Bhakti Yoga: Underline the love as the way to the liberation and to the Union.
* Jnana Yoga: Underline the intellectual and the philosophical approach to penetrate the illusion of reality dualistique.
* Yoga of Karma: Underline the just action and altruistic service as the way to moksha (the liberation).
* Kundalini Yoga: Underline the activation of Kundalini Shakti for explanation.
* Raja Yoga: Considered approaches it Scientific, this branch underlines Patanjali of Sage 8 ways of step to the Oneself Realization.
In this item that I will increase on the Yoga of Raja as that is maybe the system of Yoga more current and popular in the usage today.
As indicated above the Yoga of Raja employs Patanjali of Sage 8 ways of step to attain Union with the Supreme one. This 8 systems of step (ashtanga) the compromises on the part following. Yamas, Niyamas, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and at last Samadhi. This 8 ways of step is conceived to provoke physical, the emotion and the mental harmony; and in the advanced practices of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi take to thought suspension allowing the spirit to go counts that Reality be in fact More unique, More entire and more indivisible.
Here a description of the 8 members of Yoga of Raja:
1. Yamas: Yamas is abstensions. They are the truth, the non-violence, the check of sexual energy, nonstealing and noncovetousness.
2. Niyams: Niyams is observations. They are austerities, purity, the contentment, the study and egolessness.
3. Asanas: Assure postures and poses.
4. Pranayama: The breathing exercises and the check of the vital energy.
5. Pratyahara: The collection of the Direction.
6. Dharana: The spirit concentration.
7. Dhyana: Meditation.
8. Samadhi: The union with the Supreme Conscience.
The uniform practice of Yoga of Raja promotes health, the happiness and insight. Although the ultimate objective of Yoga is Union with the Supreme one, a lot of material advantages also is obtained by his practice.
Today, a lot of ailments are treated through the usage of Yoga asanas and of pranayamas, and tension reducing advantages of meditation of Yoga become more and more of valid one to us given our methods of excessive and frantic lives. Of more, the humility principles, the truth and the high others values that Yoga promotes help to shift certain of materialism and excessive eagerness that erodes peace and the spirit of our corporation today.
The aspect more important of Yoga is than the this is based on the Oneself Realization. In of other terms, you gave the demanded tools, and using them you provoke the necessary transformations in to attain you your true potential one in life.
It often now is said, that the big next professors will result from the West. This is because the West has an empirical approach to the things, as opposed to the superstition and to blind faith. If something works is kissed it and is used, if something does not prove to work, it is rejected as the junk. This probably is the reason why Yoga grew in such popularity here in the West, because it works. If the dived in and harvests the advantages.