Yoga - Ashtanga Yoga

Success is a focal and optimal point that makes you want to look worldly.  Many rush daily to their workplaces for its quest but few of them have genuinely ever tried to connect their souls to their minds.  

Our mind works tirelessly to realize our materialistic goals and it is constantly breaking with precedent for our follies.  Shall we not offer it a small fraction of seconds to connect to our soul and shun the endless thinking process? You can solely cherish such a single moment of keeping your mind off.

Yoga is a supernatural source, which can help you to cure physical and mental ailments and thus to achieve the real objective of mental peace. It is a continuous learning process which should be initially started in the supervision of an expert in yoga.   Let’s discuss - What is Yoga?  Literally, Yoga means ‘Yuj’ in Sanskrit language i.e. union. It is a process to connect the soul with divine providence. The objective of Yoga as per Ashtanga Yoga is: ‘Yogashchit Vriti Nirodhah’ i.e. to curb the wave of thoughts about misconceptions and to curb the deviation of mind means Yoga.  

There are eight limbs of Yoga as per Ashtanga Yoga, which are given below:

1. Yam: Yam includes nonviolence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy, forgiveness, patience, compassion, honesty, moderate appetite.
2. Niyam: Purity (body and mind), contentment, endurance, self-study, worship the almighty, theism, donation, listening to ultimate truth, intelligence, not to be ashamed of good things, sacrifice.
3. Asana: To maintain a body posture for maximum hours.
4. Pranayama: Controlling inhaling and exhaling of breath
5. Pratyahaar:  Withdrawal of five senses i.e. see through eyes, taste through tongue, listening through ears, touch of body, smelling through nose.
6. Dharna: Concentrating the mind at one object while holding breath.
7. Dhyaan: Deeper concentration of the mind through meditation.  
8. Samadhi:   It is an optimum level of concentration of mind when our logical and analytical ability of thinking of the being is stopped. 

Samadhi is a momentary experience at the initial stage and one can realize it only after following the eight limbs.  You may not achieve ‘Samadhi’, as most of the people can’t, but if you manage to achieve it for a moment; you will realize that it is quite difficult to achieve it again and again. You can master the technique with continuous practice only.

Our all biological activities are stopped at the time of Samadhi, Even Samadhi helps to stop senescence. But, we need not to forget our prime objective to connect our soul with divine providence and practice in that direction only.

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