Category:Real Yoga
Theme Analysis
The word yoga is widely misused in modern times, often reduced to gymnastic exercises aimed at improving physical health, losing weight, or acquiring mystical powers. The Vedic literature, however, defines yoga as the process of linking the individual soul with the Supreme Soul. Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies that while there are various systems like karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga, and aṣṭānga-yoga, they are merely stepping stones. The real, ultimate yoga system is bhakti-yoga—unalloyed devotional service. True perfection in yoga is achieved not by sitting in seclusion, but by actively engaging the senses in the service of the Lord and fixing the mind constantly on Kṛṣṇa, ensuring liberation from the material body.
- Focusing on the Supreme Form: The actual purpose of controlling the mind and senses is to concentrate exclusively on the four-handed form of Lord Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa within the heart.
- Rejecting Superficial Gymnastics: Engaging in yoga merely for bodily fitness, profit, or sensory pleasure is a perversion of the science; true yoga aims at ridding oneself of the material body entirely.
- The Culmination in Bhakti: While various paths of yoga exist, the ultimate and only practical process for this age is bhakti-yoga, which directly revives our loving connection with God.
- The Ultimate Perfection: The final test of a successful yogi is the ability to remember the Supreme Lord at the time of death, thereby transferring the soul to the spiritual planets.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Bhakti is the Only Real Yoga.
Pages in category "Real Yoga"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- Actually, a yogi concentrates his mind on the form of Lord Visnu. That is real yoga. Krsna is the original form of all visnu-tattvas. The gopis could not go to Krsna personally, so they began to meditate on Him as perfect yogis
- As the result of real yoga practice there are eight kinds of perfection: 1) the yogi can become smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest or lighter than the lightest
- As the result of real yoga practice there are eight kinds of perfection: 2) he can achieve anything he likes, he can create even a planet, he can establish influence over anyone, etc
- At the time of death they (real yogis who always meditate on Visnu within their hearts) give up their bodies while thinking of the form of Visnu and thus attain Visnuloka, Vaikunthaloka, where they receive bodily features the same as those of the Lord
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- If we want to perform real yoga system, then it is very difficult. Nobody... We are sitting here, so many ladies and gentlemen, is it possible for us to live alone in a secluded place in a mountain?
- If you connect yourself again with the supreme yoga - that is called real yoga - then you get rid of this so-called material happiness and distress, which is due to this body
- In order to perform real yoga one must realize his constitutional position as being distinct from matter. The purpose of seeking out a secluded place and executing the meditational process is to come to this understanding
- It appeals to fat ladies who go to the classes to reduce and keep their digestive systems regular. Many people are interested in this kind of gymnastic yoga, but real yoga is adhyatmika
- It is very good news that you are introducing courses in Krsna Consciousness in the Universities and the yoga institutes. As you know this is the only real yoga - bhakti yoga - and it is the only practical means for God realization in this age
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- Real process is to concentrate the mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah. The yogi's business is, by controlling the mind, focus it toward Krsna or Lord Visnu. That is real yoga system
- Real yoga aims at ridding one of the material body. Yoga practice is not intended to keep the body fit and young
- Real yoga is buddhi-yoga, the yoga of devotional service, which brings about direct perception of the Supreme Lord
- Real yoga is to fix the mind on the form of the Lord, the four-handed Narayana who is sitting in everyone's heart
- Real yoga means to connect your relationship, your identity, with Krsna. That is called yoga
- Real yoga practice entails meeting the Paramatma within the heart and then following His dictation. For one who takes to Krsna consciousness directly, perfect surrender to the dictation of the Lord follows automatically. BG 1972 purports
- Real yoga practice is to control the senses and, after such control is established, to concentrate the mind on the Narayana form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna
- Real yoga system is to find out within the heart where is God. My business is that I've forgotten God. The karmis, they . . . karmis, real karmis, they do not forget. The upstarts, the rascals, they forget
- Real yogic process is to find out Paramatma, but side by side, many other dormant powers become awakened. Another example: that tree is producing chemicals. So every living entity has got dormant potencies, more or less
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- The following of Krsna's dictation is real yoga, and this is practiced in the process called Krsna consciousness. By Krsna consciousness only can one give up the sense of proprietorship. BG 1972 purports
- The mystery of yogic meditation is explained here (in SB 7.10.39). Real yogis always meditate on the form of Visnu within their hearts
- The real yoga process accepts the transmigration of the soul from one planet to another or one body to another; and it appears from this incident that Sati wanted to transfer her soul to another body or sphere
- The real yoga-marga process is to control the senses, sit in a solitary and sanctified place and meditate on the four-handed form of Narayana
- The real yogi
- The yogi's main business is to control the senses. That is real yoga. Yoga indriya-samyamah. Controlling the senses so that mind can be in a peaceful condition
- The yogi's real business is to focus his mind on Krsna. That is the real yoga system. There are many gymnastics performed by yogis, but all this is recommended for those who are overly concerned with the body
- The yogis, they also can do that. Yoga practice. But that is not possible in this age. The so-called yoga practice going on are simply bluff. Real yoga practice means one becomes so perfect that he will not die natural death
- There are different siddhis, or yogic perfections - anima, laghima, prapti, and so on - and whatever yogis choose to do, they can do. That is the real yoga system
- There are many other yoga system - karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, hatha-yoga. Everything you endeavor for spiritual enlightenment, that is called yoga. So there are different types of yoga, but real yoga is bhagavad-bhakti, devotional service
- There are many yogis and many different types of yoga systems, and all of these are discussed in Bhagavad-gita. There is hatha-yoga, karma-yoga, jnana-yoga and raja-yoga; however, the real yoga system is meant for reviving our connection with Krsna
- There are some yogis who perform yoga for a profit, but that is not real yoga. Everything must be engaged in the service of the Lord
- This is human civilization, not that so many so-called sadhus and... They are now preaching openly the yoga by sex. Yoga by sex. They have invented. Yoga means to find out the Supreme Lord within one's self, within the core of the heart. That is real yoga
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- We have to be Krsna conscious-devoted to the Personality of Godhead. This is the aim of the real yoga. BG 1972 purports
- When you employ your senses in the service of the proprietor of the senses, that is called bhakti. That is called bhakti. So that is real yoga, bhakti-yoga. Otherwise artificially if you try, one or two may be successful but mostly they will fail