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I was in India once and spent the night in an ashram. One of the monks told me that yoga literally just means "practice" and that there were many different typ
by tingletech 7y ago
I was in India once and spent the night in an ashram. One of the monks told me that yoga literally just means "practice" and that there were many different types of yoga including spiritual yoga and yoga for clearing out your nose etc. etc.
- z3phyr 7y ago"Yog" is a concatenation of all the things you do, and "Bhog" is the concatenation of consequences you get depending on your yog.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoWhat we call “yoga” in the West is actually “asana” which is only a small part of the yoga path. It’s preparation for higher practices like pranayama, mediation and sense withdrawal. On the spiritual path asana is really not very important.
- rramadass 7y ago>actually “asana” which is only a small part of the yoga path "Small" only in the "Raja Yoga" path.
- nprateem 7y agoApparently "yoga" means "union" [1]. There are practices for clearing out the nose (neti) but they're not yoga in and of themselves. If you follow Patanjali [2] the ultimate aim of yoga is spiritual, and there are multiple paths to reach the same experience. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-word-yoga-mean-in-Sanskrit https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-word-yoga-mean-in-Sanskr... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali
- openfuture 7y agoThis is correct but Patanjali explicitly defines the yogic path as synonymous with 'perfect discipline' so while he acknowledges other paths he says this one is the one of discipline (so saying yoga means practice gives the right intuition imo)