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ESSENCE OF YOGA

Chapter 1: Yoga

2.Essence of Karma Yoga

 

 

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Karma Yoga is selfless service unto humanity. "Your duty is to work incessantly but not to expect the fruits thereof." This is the central teaching of the Gita.

Repeat your Ishtamantra mentally even when you work in office. God is the Inner Ruler. He directs the body, mind and senses to work. Become an instrument in the hands of the Lord. Do not expect thanks or appreciation for your work. Do actions as your duty and offer them and their fruits to the Lord. You will be freed from the bonds of Karma. It is not the Karma but the selfish motive that binds the man.

Never, never say, "I have helped that man." Feel and think, "That man gave me an opportunity to serve. This piece of service has helped me to purify my mind. I am extremely grateful to him." If you see a poor man clad in rags standing in front of your door, feel that the Lord is before you in the form of a poor man. Serve him with Narayana Bhava.

Never grumble when you do service to others. Take delight in service. Watch for opportunities, to serve. Never miss even a single opportunity. Work is worship of the Lord.

A Karma Yogi should have an amiable, loving, social nature. He should have sympathy, adaptability, self-restraint, tolerance, love and mercy. He should adjust himself to the ways and habits of others. He should be able to bear insult, harsh words, criticism, pleasure and pain, heat and cold.

You can do selfless service according to your ability and station in life. An advocate can plead for poor people without accepting fees. A doctor can treat the poor free of charge. A teacher or professor can give free tution to poor boys. He can supply them books for study.

Have a medicine-chest of 12 tissue remedies or some allopathic medicines or homoeopathic medicines. Serve the poor and sick with Atma Bhava. Give one-tenth of your income in charity. This is the highest Yoga.

Do not make any difference between menial and respectable work. If any one is suffering from acute-pain in any part of the body, at once shampoo the affected part very gently. Feel that you are serving the Lord in the body of the patient. Repeat your Ishtamantra also. If you see a man or animal bleeding on the roadside, never hesitate to tear your upper cloth or shirt and use it for bandaging, in the absence of any other means of bandage. Do not bargain with the poor porters at the railway station. Be liberal and generous. Keep always some small coins in your pocket and distribute them to the poor and the decrepit.

Karma Yoga prepares the mind for the reception of light and knowledge. It expands the heart and breaks all barriers that stand in the way of oneness or unity. Karma Yoga is an effective Sadhana for Chitta Suddhi or purity of heart. Therefore, do selfless service constantly.

 

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Chapter 1

 

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 1.Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 1.Yoga, Yoga is a perfect practical system of self-culture. Yoga is an exact science. It aims at the harmonious development of the body, the mind and the soul. Yoga is the turning away of the senses from the objective universe and the concentration of the mind within. Yoga is eternal life in the soul or spirit. Yoga aims at controlling the mind and its modifications. The path of Yoga is an inner path whose gateway is your heart at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 2.Essence of Karma Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 2.Essence of Karma Yoga, Karma Yoga is selfless service unto humanity. 'Your duty is to work incessantly but not to expect the fruits thereof.' This is the central teaching of the Gita at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 3.Hatha Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 3.Hatha Yoga, Hatha Yoga relates to the restraint of breath (Pranayama), Asanas, Bandhas and Mudras. 'Ha' and 'tha' mean the union of the sun and the moon, union of Prana and Apana Vayus. 'Hatha' means any tenacious practice till the object or end is achieved. Trataka, standing on one leg, (a kind of Tapas) and similar poses are all Hatha Yoga practices. Hatha Yoga is inseparable from Raja Yoga. Raja Yoga begins where Hatha Yoga ends. Raja Yoga and Hatha Yoga are interdependent. Raja Yoga and Hatha Yoga are the necessary counterparts of each other. No one can become a perfect Yogi without a knowledge and practice of both the Yogas. Hatha Yoga prepares the student to take up Raja Yoga at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 4.Yoga Asanas
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 4.Yoga Asanas, Health is wealth. Health is indeed a covetable possession. Good health is a valuable asset to one and all. It can be achieved by the regular practice of Yoga Asanas at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 5.Pranayama
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 5.Pranayama, Pranayama is an exact science. It is the fourth Anga or limb of Ashtanga Yoga. It is the regulation of breath or control of Prana. Pranayama steadies the mind, augments the gastric fire, energises digestion, invigorates the nerves, destroys the Rajas, destroys all diseases, removes all laziness, makes the body light and healthy and awakens Kundalini at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 6.Kundalini Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 6.Kundalini Yoga, Kundalini Sakti is the coiled-up, dormant, cosmic power that underlies all organic as well as inorganic matter. It is the primordial energy that lies at the basal Muladhara Chakra in a dormant, potential state. Kundalini Yoga is that Yoga which treats of Kundalini Sakti, the seven Chakras or centres of spiritual energy, the arousing of the sleeping Kundalini Sakti and its union with Lord Siva in Sahasrara Chakra at the crown of the head. The seven Chakras are pierced by the passing of Kundalini Sakti to the top of the head at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 7.Raja Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 7.Raja Yoga, Raja Yoga is an exact science. It aims at controlling all thought-waves or mental modifications. It concerns with the mind, its purification and control. Hence it is called Raja Yoga, i.e., king of all Yogas. It is otherwise known as Ashtanga Yoga i.e., Yoga with eight limbs at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 8.Control of Mind
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 8.Control of Mind, Mind is Atma Sakti. It is through mind only that Brahman or the Supreme Self manifests as the differentiated universe with heterogeneous objects at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 9.Nada Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 1: Yoga, 9.Nada Yoga, Sit in Padmasana or Siddhasana or Sukhasana. Close the ears with the thumbs. This is Shanmukhi Mudra or Vaishnavi Mudra. Hear the music of Anahata sounds. You will have wonderful concentration at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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