Foundations of Yoga, Part 1: Yama and Niyama
The basics of yoga
Information is achieved through routine, not just in terms of yoga strategies. In fact, error-free learning is reserved for people who start a temperance routine. Without yoga as a method, no information is generated. The act of yoga techniques is not just the method, but it is in this yoga routine that the freedom to learn occurs. Educators say, "The ultimate goal of yoga is to learn the truth." Shankara is so composed.
Everything is based on something else, everything is maintained by another. This is why you need an installation for something to exist. God alone acts naturally as the ultimate support of all things and is free from this need. Yoga needs extra help at the moment. As Trevor Leggett says in his first experience with Shankara's Yoga Sutras speech, "This is the yoga shown to the man of the world who must first clarify his psyche against the ferocity of imaginative interests and free his life from inclusions. " Patanjali In all respects, carefully and completely records the components of the competitor's need for assistance and provides valuable data on the best way to ensure achievements in yoga.
The most important yoga sutra is "the work of yoga" and concludes that there must be something that opens the way to yoga to significantly promote awareness and character. These requirements could be considered as the pillars of yoga and are known as Yama and Niyama.
Yama and Niyama
Yama and Niyama are often called the "Ten Commandments of Yoga". Each of these five forbidden and five commandments is a liberating pillar of yoga. Yama involves patience in the sense of self-rule or abstention and includes five components. Niyama involves observations, of which there are five. Here is the finished outline of these ten columns, as shown in Yoga Sutras
1) Ahimsa: peace, no harm, innocence
2) Satya: honesty, authenticity
3) Asteya: non-acquisition, authenticity, non-use
4) Brahmacharya: sexual moderation in idea, word and action, as well as control of the considerable number of faculties
5) Aparigraha: non-possession, non-hunger, non-birth, non-greed
6) Shaucha: perfection, order
7) Santosha: luck, rest
8) Tapas: obstinacy, discipline of another practical world
9) Swadhyaya: self-study reflected, beyond the investigation
10) Ishwarapranidhana: offering of one's life to God
This agreement with the innate powers of the person, or rather with the restraint and gratitude that creates and unloads the forces that will be used for our perfection of another world, for our self-recognition and our freedom.
These ten limitations and conformities are not discretionary for either the yogi or the most advanced yogi. Shankara says, "Following Yama and Niyama is the fundamental ability to practice yoga." Pure desire and aspiration to the goal of yoga are not enough, and he continues, "The skill required to practice yoga is not limited to what the sacred content says:" first removed from his demon, which no is not left and oppressed or whose psyche is not very calm, the ego can never reach through learning. (Katha Upanishad 1.2.24) And in the content of Atharva: "These are the individuals who have tapas [strong discipline] and brahmacharya [chastity]." (Prashna Upanishad 1:15) And in the Gita: "Close their promise of Brahmacharya." (Bhagavad Gita 6:14) Yama and Niyama are therefore yoga techniques "in themselves" and not mere aids or aids that can be used at will.
However, the yoga act encourages the yogi full of hope to follow the basic practices of Yama and Niyama, so that he is not discouraged from starting yoga at the moment and imagining that he should persevere until he is "prepared" or "reunited" to repeat yoga. No. He should clearly take care of Yama, Niyama and yoga at the same time. The performance will be.
