Outdoor Adventures Rishikesh

16/09/2019

My hill and moorland course in wales England

06/03/2019

The Yoga Sutras contain 196 Sutras, divided between four chapters, discussing the aims and practice of yoga, the development of yogic powers and finally, liberation. Like a gentle guiding hand, the Yoga Sutras warn you of the pitfalls on your spiritual journey and offer the means to overcome them. While there is a teaching in each Sutra, we’ll look at a few here and leave the remainder for future exploration.

In Vedic texts, it is common to encapsulate the whole teaching early in the discourse. Patanjali does simply in the first few sutras, giving you the essence of your spiritual practices:

“Yoga is the progressive settling of the mind into silence.

When the mind is settled, we are established in our own essential state,
which is unbounded consciousness.

Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind”

Your spiritual practices should be to look within. Your true Self lies hidden in the silence between your thoughts, beyond all limitations. However, the doubts, chaos, and confusion of your thoughts cause you to forget who you really are.

The obstacle to spiritual progress is stress, which creates fatigue, leading to doubts and causing laziness, which brings sensory attachments manifesting as delusions, which causes you to forget who you are. By being committed to your practices, you can overcome all of these.

To have a peaceful mind, you should cultivate attitudes of friendliness without jealousy toward those who are joyful; have compassion toward those who are unhappy and less fortunate; delight in and support the acts of the virtuous; and be impartial to and avoid the dramas of the impure.

The fruit of wrong action is sorrow, the fruit of right action is joy. You must take responsibility for your thoughts, words, and actions by living consciously. The Yoga Sutras are a path of purification, refinement, and surrender.

The causes of your suffering are the following:

Forgetting who you really are
Living from the ego
Clinging to pleasure and pain
Fearing death
All of these are resolved through meditation when you remember your essential nature of unbounded conscious

17/07/2017

Siva Yatra

12/01/2017

** LISTENING ** Sunday May 15, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

This Sunday, explore the theme of Listening in your asana practice as part of the monthly Asana Symbol & Thematic Series with Janaki.

(Note: you are most welcome to join in this Sunday even if you missed the first two parts of the series.)

Learn more or enrol at:
http://www.sivananda.org/toronto/asana-symbol-thematic-series-with-janaki/

23/04/2016

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