Definations of yoga

Bnys-Yoga philosophy-

1. Definitions of yoga Yoga can be defined in many ways Every one has their own meaning A general meaning of yoga: ‘ Yujyate anena iti yogahaa ’ Joining of our soul to the bhraman

2. Yoga is a systematic set of practices by which one can attain supernatural powers through the process of concentration Yoga is bridge between science and spirituality Yoga is compression of once own evolution into a single life of a few days or few months of own bodily existence .

3. Yoga as defined by…….. According to Maharshi Patanjali , Yoga is the cessation of movements in the conciousness Yoga is that which joins atma and paramathma According to Shri Arabindo , Methodological efforts towards the self perfection by developing the potentialities which is latent in the individual. Yoga is the passage from ignorance to self knowledge, from our apparent to our true being, from an outer phenomenal, mental, vital, materialistic life existence to our inner spiritual nature. According to yoga vasista , yoga is the tool to calm down the mind. According to B.K.S Iyengar , Yoga is the education and character building

4. According to Bhagavath Geetha , Every skillfull action is yoga . According to Osho Rajaneesh , Unknotting of mind to reach deeper levels of conciousness . According to katha upanishad , Yoga is state in which all the indriyas are held steadily. According to Mahadev Desai, Yoga is yoking of all the powers of our body, mind and soul to God.

5. Swami vivekananda Yoga means compressing one`s evolutions into single life of a few hours of few minites of one`s bodily existance Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy It is the practical medthod for making one`s life purposeful, useful and noble Yoga is a friend ti those who embrace it sincerely and totally It transforms mind in tune with the essence, the soul, so that it gets blended into one

6. A technique helping man to develop a deeper awareness of himself of every vibrations and pulsation within –at the body mind intellect levels, and the internal by virtue of which he can master the external and internal A Deeper view of Yoga

7. Yoga helps him in transforming into original form It leads us to the true freedom, liberating the human mind from the thralldom of finite matter, from all sense of isolation as well as from illusion of time space Provides the vision of REALITY by which man perceives truth in its entirety