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Mandalabrahmanopanisad and Nada-bindupanished signify a highly integrated practical effort made by the ancient Yogis by shredding all bias towards a particular philosophical opinion, idea or doctrine. It reaffirms that quest for TRUTH is urgent and imminent.
To achieve this objective Mandala-brahmanopanisad suggests taraka, laksya, amanaska, jyotih, drsti, sambhavi, pranava, sanmukhamudra etc.
Nadabindupanisad (or Omkaropanisad) describes various aspects of ...
Tradition of yoga has explored all possibilities to live a healthy long life. Be it power of mind, balancing of emotions, internal and external cleansing of body, stretching of muscles, manipulation of breath, repetition of mantra, invocation of divinity, herbs, diet regimen, alchemy, position visualization, attitudinal training, living close to nature tradition of Yoga has left no avenue untouched within human intelligence or imagination to achieve ...
Hatharatnavali is an important text of hathayoga written by Srinivasa, but not widely known as Hathapradipika. The salient features of the text include clear conception of yoga, description of astakarmas, 84 asanas and elaboration on mudras. It also contains philosophical discussion on the pinda-brahmanda (microcosm and macrocosm). While describing the yogic techniques, the author also refers to the old traditions and given new information and techniques, which ...
Like each of the 20 Yogopanisads, these three select Upanisads have elaborated on certain technique/s or issue/s of Yoga which are not easily available in any of the published Hatha literature. Contribution of Yogopanisads lie in their effort to make use of Hatha techniques to achieve the state of Absolute Oneness (Advaita). Advaita theory, which hails ‘the non-dual state or Truth’ to be the Supreme, does not view ‘suffering’ differently ...
Through this small compilation work, a humble attempt has been made to establish a link of the various theories on the process of evolution as found in different systems of Yoga and especially Hathayoga, to their lineage to the olden Vaidika scriptures, thus lending perhaps a much needed validity. It is expected that this will throw some light on how various theories have been evolved and expanded with variegated Colours and shades in a long time of history. ...