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The angas (branches / limbs) of Yoga are eight and just like a tree branches, they are holding all flowers and fruits.
1. Yama: Don't s. (Self-control / Brake) They regulate all external activities of the practitioner and are based in five moral rules. 2. Niyama: Does. (Observation) It has five rules for personal behavior.
4. Pranayama: (Control / prolongation of the breath) prana is the vital force, and ayama is creation / distribution / maintenance. Among the senses mind is the Quinn and breath is the King of mind. It is composed by four parts (Puraka: inhalation, Kumbhaka: retention, Rechaka: exhalation y Kumbaka: prolongation). 5. Pratyahara: (Inhibition / restrain) is to turn apart the senses from the objects of the senses, "just like a tortoise contracts its legs and head to the center of its body, in the same way a yogi must take his senses from the outside to the inside of the self", in such a way one can become free from samsara (wheel of endless life and death). 6. Dharana: (Concentration / attention) it's when all psychic energy is controlled and focused to a mandala or ishtadev (inner lord). 7. Dhyana: (Meditation) the consciousness becomes a constant flow towards the ishtadev, between meditate into "nothing / void" or mediating in "everything" it is better to meditate in The All, it is more delighting. 8. Samadhi: (Stasis) it is a trance in which a yogi is meditating no more, it is the "perfect freedom from meditation" that comes after. Is such state it is totally understood sambandha (our relationship with the supreme Lord Krsna), abhideya (the process to attain him) and prayojana (the ultimate goal of life).
A yoga practice that is lacking any of the angas is senseless. Joy is obtained just by practicing the whole process as a part of your life. Every part is important and like a tree, we have first roots and then flowers, so to speak is the same with Yama and Niyama. |
