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| The persons who combines or synchronizes mind and body in a harmonious way is called yogi.
Posted by: Mr. Vachaspathi V At: 19, Mar 2005 12:03:44 PM IST
yoga means union with the ultimate sorce which is the cause of this entire creation.one who gets maturity in the art of meditation by experiencing a kind of expansion which is the result of thought regulation and as a result of this meditation definately gets this vision of feeling one ness. this feeling and experience of one ness helps the individual to have the inner vision.
Posted by: Mr. jogarao pilla At: 19, Mar 2005 11:55:31 AM IST
I saw the movie also in which Bramhanandam and Sree Lakshmi played the wife and husband role. Bramhanandam gets some super power of mind reading and the situations he faced nicely picturized.
There are some books published on the same topic if someone able to read the book first then it will be easy for implementation.
Posted by: Mr. M Kumar N At: 31, Dec 2004 2:17:12 PM IST
Hariom,
Iam bharat, i would like to share this Article with you...
Swasti
Yoga At The Speed Of Light And The Meaning Of 108
-- by Linda Johnsen
It is amazing how much Western science has taught us. Today, for example, kids in grammar school learn that the sun is 93 million miles from the earth and that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per hours. Yoga may teach us about our Higher Self, but it can't supply this kind of information about physics or astronomy.
Or can it?
Professor Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University recently called my attention to a remarkable statement by Sayana, a fourteenth century Indian scholar. In his commentary on a hymn in the Rig Veda, the oldest and perhaps most mystical text ever composed in India, Sayana has this to say: "With deep respect, I bow to the sun, who travels 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha."
A yojana is about nine American miles; a nimesha is 16/75 of a second. Mathematically challenged readers, get out your calculators!
2,202 yojanas x 9 miles x 75 - 8 nimeshas = 185,794 m.p.s.
Basically, Sayana is saying that sunlight travels at 186,000 miles per second! How could a Vedic scholar who died in 1387 A.D. have known the correct figure for the speed of light? If this was just a wild guess it's the most amazing coincidence in the history of science!
The yoga tradition is full of such coincidences. Take for instance the mala many yoga students wear around their neck. Since these rosaries are used to keep track of the number of mantras a person is repeating, students often ask why they have 108 beads instead of 100. Part of the reason is that the mala represent the ecliptic, the path of the sun and moon across the sky. Yogis divide the ecliptic into 27 equal sections called nakshatras, and each of these into four equal sectors called padas, or "steps," marking the 108 steps that the sun and moon take through heaven.
Each is associated with a particular blessing force, with which you align yourself as you turn the beads.
Traditionally, yoga students stop at the 109th "guru bead," flip the mala around in their hand, and continue reciting their mantra as they move backward through the beads. The guru bead represents the summer and winter solstices, when the sun appears to stop in its course and reverse directions. In the yoga tradition we learn that we're deeply interconnected with all of nature. Using a mala is a symbolic way of connecting ourselves with the cosmic cycles governing our universe.
But Professor Kak points out other coincidences: The distance between the earth and the sun is approximately 108 times the sun's diameter. The diameter of the sun is about 108 times the earth's diameter. And the distance between the earth and the moon is 108 times the moon's diameter.
Could this be the reason the ancient sages considered 108 such a sacred number? If the microcosm (us) mirrors the macrocosm (the solar system), then maybe you could say there are 108 steps between our ordinary human awareness and the divine light at the center of our being. Each time we chant another mantra as our mala beads slip through our fingers, we are taking another step toward our own inner sun.
As we read through ancient Indian texts, we find so much the sages of antiquity could not possibly have known-but did. While our European and Middle Eastern ancestors claimed that the universe was created about 6,000 years ago, the yogis have always maintained that our present cosmos is billions of years old, and that it's just one of many such universes which have arisen and dissolved in the vastness of eternity.
In fact the Puranas, encyclopedias of yogic lore thousands of years old, describe the birth of our solar system out of a "milk ocean," the Milky Way. Through the will of the Creator, they tell us, a vortex shaped like a lotus arose from the navel of eternity. It was called Hiranya Garbha, the shining womb. It gradually coalesced into our world, but will perish some day billions of years hence when the sun expands to many times it present size, swallowing all life on earth. In the end, the Puranas say, the ashes of the earth will be blown into space by the cosmic wind. Today we known this is a scientifically accurate, if poetic, description of the fate of our planet.
The Surya Siddhanta is the oldest surviving astronomical text in the Indian tradition. Some Western scholars date it to perhaps the fifth or sixth centuries A.D., though the text itself claims to represent a tradition much, much older. It explains that the earth is shaped like a ball, and states that at the very opposite side of the planet from India is a great city where the sun is rising at the same time it sets in India. In this city, the Surya Siddhanta claims, lives a race of siddhas, or advanced spiritual adepts. If you trace the globe of the earth around to the exact opposite side of India, you'll find Mexico. Is it possible that the ancient Indians were well aware of the great sages/astronomers of Central America many centuries before Columbus discovered America?
Knowing the unknowable
To us today it seems impossible that the speed of light or the fate of our solar system could be determined without advanced astronomical instruments. How could the writers of old Sanskrit texts have known the unknowable? In searching for an explanation we first need to understand that these ancient scientists were not just intellectuals, they were practicing yogis. The very first lines of the Surya Siddhanta, for of the Golden Age a great astronomer named Maya desired to learn the secrets of the heavens, so he first performed rigorous yogic practices. Then the answers to his questions appeared in his mind in an intuitive flash.
Does this sound unlikely? Yoga Sutra 3:26-28 states that through, samyama (concentration, meditation, and unbroken mental absorption) on the sun, moon, and pole star, we can gain knowledge of the planets and stars. Sutra 3:33 clarifies, saying: "Through keenly developed intuition, everything can be known." Highly developed intuition is called pratibha in yoga. It is accessible only to those who have completely stilled their mind, focusing their attention on one object with laser-like intensity. Those who have limited their mind are no longer limited to the fragments of knowledge supplied by the five senses. All knowledge becomes accessible to them.
"There are [those] who would say that consciousness, acting on itself, can find universal knowledge," Professor Kak admits. "In fact this is the traditional Indian view."
Perhaps the ancient sages didn't need advanced astronomical instruments. After all, they had yoga.
Posted by: Mr. BHARAT T.V. At: 10, Oct 2004 5:19:08 PM IST
Talking about prayer- if offered properly acts like a switch to awaken the dorment divine spirit which is in a sleeping stage due to our own ignorance and lead us to our ultimate objective of this life i.e. to be one with the Almighty by losing individuality and self ego.If we do not achieve this then it is not a prayer at all.
Posted by: Mr. appalaraju kolleti At: 10, Oct 2004 4:57:22 PM IST
Posted by: manetina shaw At: 10, Aug 2004 7:44:21 AM IST
We have tiny little creatures low in IQ, less stronger than us, very dependent on us for survival etc.. but do we expect them to pray to us?
i think i have some few to talk about the above statement, these are just my views, please correct if i am wrong
pray does not only mean praise some one who is powerfull than you. if that is the case then u have to pray to a lot of humans itself who are powerfull than you but you are actually not, u have prayers only to god, because god is something different who is every where and when u offer prayers to god its not that you are praising god because of his power, actaully its a way of expressing love to god.
there are many reasons why people pray to god,
1) if they are guilty about themselves i.e. they feel about something they did or they might have intentionally did some something which they feel wrong so they are afraid that god will punish them and so to please him they pray. if by heart you are crystal clear and have positive attitude you will never fear to god because of his power rather u like go towards him in the path of enlightment. and it is also said that if u move one step towards god he will come 4 steps towards you. and to reach him there are different ways.
2) some pray to god, because public say its good if u pray to god
3) some dont know why they pray to god
4) some go to temples with a reason to offer prayers to god but do something else u better know what is it.
5) some go to temples or prayer room to meet their friend god and say hai. that hai in the case of god is nothing but prayer. and if u pray god with which include typical mantras its good for health as well as gives you mental strength. while u pronounce those mantrans especially the (ohm) if u say that letter, then the air from your stomach is sucked activating ur entire digestive system and if you offer prayers with full concentration the same concentration can be followed in your daily life making things easier and giving mental relief.
Posted by: Mr. nishanth gadireddy At: 10, Aug 2004 10:32:07 AM IST
anniyOgaalalO bhaktiyOgam SrEshTam .
yOga@h karmasu kauSalam
Posted by: Mr. HAYAGREEVA MURTY Rachuri At: 7, Aug 2004 9:28:28 AM IST
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