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What is Yoga?
The word yoga can describe either a state of consciousness or an effort
to attain that state. The state of consciousness is characterized by
transcendental knowledge and bliss. Knowledge which transcends
ignorance, suffering, sickness and the limitation of a personal
perspective on life allows the practitioner to know the true Self and
to understand with objectivity, anything brought before his perception.
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Ashtanga Yoga means eight step or eight "limb" yoga. These are
described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
The eight
steps are divided into two parts - the first five are called external
limbs, they are: Yama (suggestions for social behaviour:
non-aggression, truthfulness, non-theft, appropriate sexual behaviour
and non-greed), Niyama (suggestions for personal disciplines:
self purification, contentment, self-discipline, self-study and surrender
to the ideal of yoga), Asana (physical postures),
Pranayama (breathing exercises) and Pratyahara (sense withdrawal).
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Samkhya is important because the structure of reality which it
describes, is used, with some slight variations by Patanjali in the
Yoga Sutra. (in fact the categories of Samkhya are used almost
universally in Hindu thought).
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