*** Yog/ Yoga: योगश्चित्त वृत्ति निरोध: | yogashchitta-vritti-nirodhaH | *** The West have taken over Yoga. Or so it seems. Though yoga is not owned by the East, there is a disconcerting wave of misinterpretation about yoga. Fancily-named or self-named yoga techniques have flooded the markets in the last few decades. In the United States alone, yoga is conservatively estimated to be a $6 billion dollar industry. The only ever prop we ever had, when we learnt yoga in India, was an old blanket. Compared to the props available in the modern market, it is very clear that yoga has been stretched for its popularity. I wonder why no one has yet come up with the pricing model of pay-per-pranayama - you know, just like the cloud-based models, where you pay per GB or CPU cycle. Im sure the pricing models like 25 prANAyAma-s per dollar, two free breath-ins for every breath-out or early bird sign ups will get an extra arm twist will be a run-away hit. So much ignorance is perpetuated that the original definition of yoga is completely sidelined. Yoga is translated into union, which is probably the farthest explanation from being anything meaningful. For giving a mind-blowingly precise definition of yoga, which is the exact opposite of yoga-marketing, namely Yoga is the cessation of mind-activity - the patanjalis yoga-sutram occupies the second best sutram in our list. Patanjali has given precise definitions of several other psychological terms, which the modern academia is quietly accumulating into their own curriculum, but we will take his first as the best.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:18:58 +0000
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