Aria-Slavic Vedas - YOGA Eight steps of yoga: 1. Yama - the principles of interaction with the environment Yama consists of five basic principles (on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali): ahimsa - non-violence (including vegetarian); satya - truthfulness; aste - non-appropriation of anothers (nevorovstvo); Brahmacharya - abstinence; control lust and preservation of chastity before joining the family unit; internal meetings, neraspuschennost; Aparigraha - nestyazhatelstvo (rejection of gifts), nenakopitelstvo, detachment. 2. Niyama - the principles of interaction with the internal environment Saucha - cleanliness, both external (cleanliness) and internal (purity of mind). Santosha - modesty, contentment real optimism. Tapas - self-discipline, diligence in achieving the spiritual goal. Svadhyaya - cognition, the study of the spiritual and the scientific literature, creating a culture of thinking. Ishvara pranidhana - adoption of Ishvara (God) as its goal, the only ideal in life. 3. Asana - the union of mind and body through physical activity 4. Pranayama - control of prana (vital energy) through special breathing practices term pranayama is composed of two Sanskrit words - Prana and the pit. The term prana represents a breath of life, life energy. The term yama means stop, control and management. Therefore, pranayama is often defined as the technique of conscious breath control, which includes a system of breathing exercises. 5. Pratyahara - sensory distraction from contact with their objects 6. Dharana - concentration purposeful mind Dharana - is the total concentration of the mind on some object or thought. 7. Dhyana - meditation (internal activity, which gradually leads to samadhi) 8. Samadhi - peaceful superconscious state of blissful awareness of their true nature Samadhi is that state of enlightenment achieved by meditation, sometimes they are divided into four lower and four higher stages, of which the lower is compared with hatha yoga, while the higher stages belong specifically to the raja yoga. Simultaneous practice the three higher levels called Samyama. Samyama is a great tool yoga. Objects of knowledge are endless, and they are divided into rough, rougher, the toughest and thin, thinner, very thin, and so on. D. Samyama must first apply to the gross objects, and after the individual has known the level of gross matter, gradually in several steps, it begins to learn the finer elements.
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