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	Raja Yoga is easy to practise. Everyone in a family including elders and children can practise this.The aim of this union with the Supreme is to become like Him in His qualities. As souls, we have similar attributes as God. As God's children, we human souls are innately good and pure; peace, truth, love and bliss are our innate nature.		Raja Yoga is easy to practise. Everyone in a family including elders and children can practise this.The aim of this union with the Supreme is to become like Him in His qualities. As souls, we have similar attributes as God. As God's children, we human souls are innately good and pure; peace, truth, love and bliss are our innate nature.

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−	The word ‘yog’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘yuj’, which means ‘to join’, ‘to yoke’, or ‘to unite’. There are two different ways to understand yog. On one hand, it is seen as the union of the individual soul with the universal Soul. Here, it is cut off from the material world and irrelevant to our daily lives. On the other hand, it is interpreted as purely physical, the Hath Yog. This only gives us a narrow glimpse of actual yog.
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−	Comprehending yog in these ways makes us miss the essence of the purpose and goal of yog and its philosophy. Here are three definitions of yog derived from our scriptures to help us understand its real meaning. First is Patanjali’s Yog Sutras – ‘Yogah cittavrtti nirodha’ (1.2). The skill of yoga is demonstrated by the conscious non-operation of the vibrational modes of the mento-emotional energy. In simple terms, it is the ability to control our thought processes. Yog recognises that the mind is central to our life, behaviour and actions. Mind decides the route of our life. Either we control the mind, or we get controlled by it. In our practical life, the mind is neither calm nor peaceful. If it is reined in, the purpose of yog is largely achieved.
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−	The Bhagwad Gita has the second and third definitions. Krishn, while trying to remind Arjun of his duty, says ‘Yogah Karmasu Kaushalam’ (2.50). It means that excellence in action is yog. Meaning skill or perfection; discharging our work with full concentration. Krishn knows that we have many reasons to justify the performance or non-performance of our tasks. Either we are diffident and confused or overconfident, which affects our focus on such tasks. Often, we ignore our mandatory duties due to our emotional make-up or moods. Keeping aside our emotions, feelings and perceptions, if we can perform our tasks perfectly and to the best of our abilities, then it is nothing short of yog.
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−	The third definition is – ‘Samatvam yoga uchyate’ (2.48). It means that being steadfast in performing our duty by abandoning attachment to outcomes such as success and failure, such equanimity is called yog. We are generally not consistent in performing our duties as we are influenced by their outcomes. If we fail, we abandon our duty or perform reluctantly. Or even when we succeed, we rejoice so much that we delay performing the next task.
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−	So, our leanings towards dualities of life – success and failure, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and insult – determine our decision to act or not to act. Consistency in performing our duties is possible only when we go beyond these dualities, not abandoning actions but accepting all situations with a stable mind.
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−	If we examine these three definitions together, we find that yog is performing our tasks skilfully, karm yog, with a concentrated mind, dhyan yog and not be attached to the outcomes, jnana yog. If we can achieve this, then we are surely moving in the right direction, that is, to succeed in uniting our individual soul with the universal Soul.

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 Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutras, gives the most clear and succinct answer to the question, “What is yoga?“ in his aphorism, “Yogas chitta vritti nirodh.“ The great master of yoga, Paramhansa Yogananda, interpreted Patanjali thus, “Yoga is the neutralisation of the vortices of feeling.“
 Thought itself is neutral. It is only with disturbed feelings and emotions, likes and dislikes, along with emotional reactions to events, that humans truly suffer.
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	Ego is the biggest road block for a sadhaka. Jnana never comes from reading books or listening to lectures; it comes from somewhere else. Divine messages come in mysterious ways. Ego is the greatest veil, which never allows you to see the truth. It makes you believe that you know everything. The one who understands and accepts what is lacking in him, where he is going wrong, can very easily go ahead but the one who keeps denying till the very end nothing can be done for such a person. Do not try assessing the subject of yoga with your limited five senses, that `this will happen' or `this should happen', wait for your experience. You are a normal human being you have five senses and certain desires. Every soul has a desire and to fulfil that desire it takes a body and to rise above that desire it holds the hand of the guru. The problem arises when people start doing yoga for bhoga. Yoga is for rising above bhoga.The body and five senses are for bhoga, but yoga is to rise above desires. Yoga chitta vritti nirodh. Gita talks of control of senses. What that control is, the guru will guide you. Just like indulging in senses is an experience, similarly control of senses too is an experience.But for this, you need a guru.		Ego is the biggest road block for a sadhaka. Jnana never comes from reading books or listening to lectures; it comes from somewhere else. Divine messages come in mysterious ways. Ego is the greatest veil, which never allows you to see the truth. It makes you believe that you know everything. The one who understands and accepts what is lacking in him, where he is going wrong, can very easily go ahead but the one who keeps denying till the very end nothing can be done for such a person. Do not try assessing the subject of yoga with your limited five senses, that `this will happen' or `this should happen', wait for your experience. You are a normal human being you have five senses and certain desires. Every soul has a desire and to fulfil that desire it takes a body and to rise above that desire it holds the hand of the guru. The problem arises when people start doing yoga for bhoga. Yoga is for rising above bhoga.The body and five senses are for bhoga, but yoga is to rise above desires. Yoga chitta vritti nirodh. Gita talks of control of senses. What that control is, the guru will guide you. Just like indulging in senses is an experience, similarly control of senses too is an experience.But for this, you need a guru.
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	Happiness is a state of mind. Our idea of `what makes us' happy changes from time to time depending on how trained our mind is to experience happiness. This technique of training your mind is nothing else but yoga.		Happiness is a state of mind. Our idea of `what makes us' happy changes from time to time depending on how trained our mind is to experience happiness. This technique of training your mind is nothing else but yoga.
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		+	= Vedic Yog=
		+	== Inner Growth==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2021%2F04%2F08&entity=Ar01804&sk=FE8A3E05&mode=text KV Raghupathi, April 8, 2021: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Vedic Yog is different from modern yog in many ways. Modern yog mainly deals with asanas and pranayama, focussing more on health. In the present-day world, people have become more conscious of their health due to the emergence of chronic diseases. They have turned to yog, which has been amended to suit their body and context. But this yog is a mixture of martial arts and other forms of physical exercise. The number of asanas performed by practitioners are unrelated to the actual yog that had existed in the Vedic times. These are unknown even to several Hatha Yog texts, namely ‘Hatha Yog Pradipika’, ‘Siva Samhita’, and ‘Gheranda Samhita’.
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		+	Vedic Yog is not centred on asanas, powerful pranayama methods, or special meditative techniques. It cannot be reduced to the body and its health or to a set of mantric formula. Vedic Yog is vast and many-sided. It contains all aspects of yog, from lifestyle to devotion and deeper meditation. It can be approached both at a philosophical level and spiritual level. It rests upon connecting with the Divine and a return to the universal life, deeper rhythms, and transformational processes.
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		+	This Vedic Yog is classical, ancient and sanatan. It is our Sanatan Dharma, the ‘eternal tradition’. The ter m ‘dhar ma’ stands for the laws of truth and consciousness that uphold the universe, including the great laws of karma. This yog dharma rests upon the Sanatan Dharma. Dharma is the highest pursuit of truth. The highest human dharma is the pursuit of Self-realisation or direct awareness of the Cosmic Being. Yog is the means of fulfilling this highest dharma or duty of inner spiritual growth. This yog dharma is called Satya Dharma, the natural law of truth. It is Manav Dharma, the ‘dharma of humanity’, which is not only an inward seeking of truth but also outward respect for all life as sacred.
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		+	Vedic Yog also is called Rishi Yog since it was practised by sages. These rishis lived in the forest to be free from the external disturbances so that they could contemplate and meditate deeply. Hence, they were called forest sages. Pranayama and dhyana were the techniques they used to attain the highest state of consciousness. In the state of samadhi they had profound revelations, which later came to be known as Vedic wisdom. These rishis were not mere human sages but the actual sages with spiritual and cosmic powers. They were the earliest and extraordinary sages and yogis possessing great wisdom and magical powers, who gave early humanity its first religion, culture, language and medicine.
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		+	To carry forward their legacy and transmit their knowledge to future generations, they developed secret teachings and mystical traditions. These teachings invited special initiations and strict disciplines in order to receive and understand their real import. These rishis were Raja Yogis since they mastered the inner yog of mantra, meditation, pranayama, ritual and service.
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		+	To this tradition belongs Patanjali, the great sage. The distinctness of Patanjali is that he systematically organised the wisdom of yog in a scientific way and offered it to humanity.
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	The most popular concepts about yoga are asanas, physical stretches, breathing exercises and techniques to relax and focus the mind.There are many kinds of yoga Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga (of Patanjali), Kundalini Yoga, Sankhya Yoga, Tattwa Yoga and many others.		The most popular concepts about yoga are asanas, physical stretches, breathing exercises and techniques to relax and focus the mind.There are many kinds of yoga Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga (of Patanjali), Kundalini Yoga, Sankhya Yoga, Tattwa Yoga and many others.

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	You've likely never seen someone looking down at the ground with such a posture stating enthusiastically , “I feel so uplifted!“ And you will never see someone with a straight spine, shoulders back, chest out, eyes looking upward, saying, “I feel so depressed!“ By changing our habitual posture, we can influence our mood and emotions. Hatha yoga can help with this process, so can physical exercise, but simply changing your habitual posture will have surprising effects on your mood. This is one reason why yogis meditate with a straight spine, and with the eyes gazing upward to the spiritual eye at the point between the eyebrows, the kutastha chaitanya centre.		You've likely never seen someone looking down at the ground with such a posture stating enthusiastically , “I feel so uplifted!“ And you will never see someone with a straight spine, shoulders back, chest out, eyes looking upward, saying, “I feel so depressed!“ By changing our habitual posture, we can influence our mood and emotions. Hatha yoga can help with this process, so can physical exercise, but simply changing your habitual posture will have surprising effects on your mood. This is one reason why yogis meditate with a straight spine, and with the eyes gazing upward to the spiritual eye at the point between the eyebrows, the kutastha chaitanya centre.
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		+	==A Healthy Way Of Life==
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=the-speaking-tree-Yoga-As-A-Healthy-Way-15032017024052 BK Brijmohan, Yoga As A Healthy Way Of Life, March 15, 2017: The Times of India]
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		+	The most popular concepts about yoga are asanas, physical stretches, breathing exercises and techniques to relax and focus the mind.There are many kinds of yoga Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga (of Patanjali), Kundalini Yoga, Sankhya Yoga, Tattwa Yoga and many others.
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		+	Today yoga is practised mostly to attain physical fitness, stamina and l weight-loss. But yoga as a holistic practice was seen as a tool to facilitate inner peace, Self-realisation and mental purification. Yoga isn't just exercise, it's a state of mind. All over the world, those l who consider yoga to be a set of bodily and breathing exercises aiming at body-mind well-being are more than the number of people who consider yoga to be a spiritual journey .
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		+	The health benefits of yoga are manifold. However, all these systems of yoga mentioned above involve physical stretches, postures, bending and flexing of the body which cannot be practised regularly by old, unwell and those with physical challenges. To be of benefit, it requires plenty of time and motivation to practise regularly.
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		+	The word `yoga' is derived from the Sanskrit term `yuj' which means to connect. Yoga is a communion of the human soul with the Supreme Soul. Such a spiritual union empowers a human to overcome lust, anger and ego and live a virtuous life with spiritual awareness and compassion.
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		+	In the present age of Kalyug, most people are leading a bhogi life. A bhogi chases happiness in possessions, roles, status and all outer achievements that gratify his sense of `i' and mine. He engages himself endlessly in competing for space, position and material resources. His actions gradually entangle him in a web of greed, ego and attachment. A bhogi ultimately becomes a rogi physically , mentally , morally and spiritually unhealthy .
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		+	Health is not just absence of disease but is a state of wellness in which a person enjoys physical, mental, social and spiritual health. Most diseases today are psychosomatic, caused by negative emotions. The negative `sanskars' of the soul adversely in fluence the individual's attitude, outlook, dietary habits, relationships and behaviour. As a consequence, norms of physical and mental health are violated.
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		+	When the body's tolerance limit is crossed by repeated violations, disease sets in.
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		+	Yoga is a way of life. It involves satvik diet, positive thinking, spiritual study , healthy relationships, silent meditation and selfless service. A yogic lifestyle does not mean renunciation or shedding family responsibilities. A yogi maintains his mental equilibrium even in adverse situations. He is naturally free from addictions and unhealthy habits. A yogi celebrates the spirit of love through a very deep and authentic spiritual connection with each other.
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		+	The basis of Raja Yoga is soulconsciousness which means considering one's true Self as immortal soul having eternal relationship with the Supreme Soul and the disciplines of a yogic lifestyle are clearly described in the Gita. The Gita describes the essence of Raja Yoga as mental communion with God: man-mana bhava; sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja.
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		+	Raja Yoga is easy to practise. Everyone in a family including elders and children can practise this.The aim of this union with the Supreme is to become like Him in His qualities. As souls, we have similar attributes as God. As God's children, we human souls are innately good and pure; peace, truth, love and bliss are our innate nature.

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