tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233446649700083066.post1396900570565694402..comments2023-10-18T23:37:01.045-07:00Comments on SPIRITUALITY AT ITS BEST: PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS - Verse.2.54 - Pratyahara, the start of INWARD JOURNEY - Vs.2.55 - Mastery of Senses - End of Saadhana PaadhaV VIJAYAMOHANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18074555365661801354noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3233446649700083066.post-49511210906467194672012-01-31T13:00:35.131-08:002012-01-31T13:00:35.131-08:00Nowadays Yoga has come to mean, in actual practice...Nowadays Yoga has come to mean, in actual practice, world over, just a single limb -- Yogaasanas, or Sitting postures with various contortions of the body many times deviating from the rules-- of the Ashtanga yoga system, which is the real thing. Is it not a ridiculous state of affairs and a travesty, that "teaching" of these postures to the total exclusion of all those other limbs like Yama, Niyama, Pratyaahaara, etc., have become a huge commercial propoition. Plainly, if the Yoga practitioner is neither informed with guidelines on these other limbs, the Yogic practitioner will only be enabled to become a person whose physique is fine but the mind and spirit all the same as any of those suffering fellowmen aroundAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com