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Session 5: Different Forms of Yoga and The Topmost Yoga System
Session 5: Different Forms of Yoga and The Topmost Yoga System
A mechanical meditative
practice meant to control the
mind and senses and focus
one’s concentration on the
Supreme.
Sakama Niskama
Birth
Old age
Disease
Death
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Birth
Very painful
For months, the fetus lies in a bow
like position bitten by hungry worms
in the abdomen of the mother and
eating it’s own stool, hair, urine
mixed with food and jolted by
sudden movements
Karmis
Sakama
Niskama
Jnanis
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The Sakama-Karmis or Fruitive
workers want to enjoy the
results of their labour and
The Niskama-Karmis renounce
the fruits of action.
1. Anima
2. Lagima
3. Mahima
4. Prapti
5. Isita
6. Prakamya
7. Vasita
8. Kamavasayita
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Anima-siddhi
Refers to the power by which one can
become so small that he can enter into a
stone.
Modern day subways and tunnels also
enable us to enter into stone!
By this yoga-siddhi
one can create and
destroy an entire
planet simply at will.
Even 5000 years ago, when circumstances in the world were different, this
yoga system was not practicable
Arjuna who belonged to the royal family, a great warrior, an intimate friend
of Krsna, said, “My dear Krsna, it is not possible to follow this process of
yoga for the mind is restless and unsteady.”
ETERNALLY ETERNALLY
LIBERATED CONDITIONED
MOVING NON-MOVING
(BIRDS & BEASTS) (TREES)
ARYA ANARYA
CIVILISED UNCIVILISED
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RIGHTEOUS UNRIGHTEOUS
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RIGHTEOUS
JNANIS KARMIS