YOGA
What is Yoga?
The yoga system emerged out of the intense need to liberate oneself from the tyrannical riddles of life. Yoga, as many other philosophical systems of India, is a Moksha sastra, a science of liberation. It is not a system shrouded and structured in cryptic mysticism. In fact the ethical and philosophical insights of Yoga, if imbibed in its true sense guide one through the trials and tribulations life protecting the inherent integrity and harmony of the self.
The system of yoga is built over the centuries by a long line of Indian sages derived from the experiential occurrences of yogic practices which were observed, analyzed and documented for the posterity.
The yoga of Patanjali, derived from the Samkhya school of Indian darsanas and the Hatha yoga tradition of yoga, even though on the outset takes recourse to divergent methods to bring about meditative transcendental states in the practitioner, in fact guides to the same goal of total liberation or kaivalya.
Correct, sensible, suitable and regular practice of the methods advocated in the tradition of yoga transforms the sadhaka(Practitioner) to a truly harmonious state both psychologically and physiologically.
While sage Patantali explains ways and means to purify the mind with the mind for the discovery of the purusha or the seer personality in us veiled by the false notions on life, the Hatha yoga tradition elucidates the methods to control, manipulate and purify prana or life force in us to achieve a refined higher altered state of awareness culminating in unconditional absolute joy.
Even though there are many streams of yoga, the yoga of Patanjali often called Raja yoga, and the hatha yoga tradition as popularized by Nath yogis are the most popular.
Lyfistry follows and propagates the uplifting practical insights of the yoga of Patanjali and the tangible, practical and verifiable practices of Hatha yoga suited for the modern day sadhaka (Practitioner) as guidance to a pleasant state of mind tackling the stresses of life within and without leading to citta prasadanam, the blissful state of consciousness.