Saturday, September 11, 2010

What is Yoga - history and origins

What is Yoga - history and origins
br p popularization yoga in the West of yoga schools by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (2.) (Century BC) have affected almost to the origin of Yoga LED connected with Patanjali in the Western mind. Indeed have earliest picture we of Yoga is Mohenjo-daro seals. Mohenjodaro, the remains of an ancient city in Pakistan, part of the Indus Valley civilisation along the Indus and Ghaggar Hakra River in northwestern of India gave it and what is now Pakistan. Mohenjodaro was the parent company Harappa city in India./p these civilizations have been dated from 3300 BC to 1300 BC. At one point she suddenly thought stopped due to an Aryan invasion, but archaeologists now believe it was likely due to climate change. But in the end, nothing is sure in the world of Archaeology at least until the next available or scientific progress./p Mohenjo-daro seals show a figure on the head and another sitting cross-legged./p some see Yoga coming from the Vedic Shastras Vedic or religious texts that form the basis of Indian Hinduism. The Vedic Scriptures are from 500 BC, Rigveda is believed to be from 1500 BC completed. Rig Veda principle is one of many early Vedic texts. Rig Veda, Yajurveda Samaveda of the Brahmin caste, which usually were priests or priest can be used in the days, as the caste system./p many these texts relating to ritual sacrifice. There were prayers, invocations and functions relating to magic, a few aspects of the topic name. You are currently now symbolically or philosophical, but probably more literal meaning. But the word "yoga" was discussed in the Rigveda. It includes our "yoking"Spirit and our understanding of the "Sun of truth" (David Frawley, a Vedic scholars)./p Yoga is also in the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna describes four forms of Yoga: / p * selfless Act, to thy soul away one of Dharma, the first to follow discussed, without thinking about the result, the final result or can of his own benefit (Karma Yoga) /p * even justified beyond knowledge (jnana Yoga) /p * psycho-physical meditation (Raja Yoga) /p devotion - loving service to is divine beings (Bhakti Yoga) (source - Wikipedia) /p Bhagavad Gita reached that between 5. and 2. Century BC be written. The goal of yoga, implementation of Brahman or divine presence is in the Gita. Although the paths to achieve, for individuals the core of the next varies, unequivocable knowledge of unity of the divine and in this same fundamental reality./p "The Gita is discord between the senses and the intuition of cosmic order." He talks about yoga equanimity, an independent perspective. The term Yoga covers a wide range of meanings, but in the Bhagavad Gita, describes a single Outlook, peace of mind, great effect, and the ability of the glory of the self (Atman adapted stay), essentially the same as the basis for the be (Brahman). "(Wikipedia) /p"

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