Category:Yoga Exercise
Theme Analysis
The category Yoga Exercise presents bodily and breathing discipline as useful but incomplete unless it culminates in devotional service. In these quotes, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that prāṇāyāma, haṭha-yoga, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, āsana, and other forms of yogic exercise may help regulate the body, control the mind, and even prolong life, yet they cannot independently reveal Kṛṣṇa as He is. The true perfection of yoga exercise is reached when the mind becomes fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead through bhakti.
- Yoga Exercise as Bodily and Mental Regulation: Yogic breathing and bodily discipline may help regulate the life air, reduce disease, concentrate the mind, and support longer life when practiced properly.
- The Difficulty in the Kali Age: Because people in the Kali Age are generally disturbed and untrained, the traditional process of yoga exercise, breath control, fixed posture, and meditation is very difficult to perform successfully.
- The Limits of Mystic Practice: Kṛṣṇa is not understood through mental speculation, fruitive activity, or mystic yogic exercise, nor does He become God through any manufactured process of austerity or meditation.
- The Superiority of Devotional Service: Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly establishes that only devotional service, the bhakti method, enables one to understand Kṛṣṇa as He is.
- The Perfection of Yoga Exercise: The purpose of controlling the mind is fulfilled when the mind is fully fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, making devotional absorption the real goal of yoga.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Yoga Exercise Finds Perfection in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Yoga Exercise"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- If you are actually serious to know God, or Krsna, then you must take to this process of devotional service. Without this, you cannot understand. Not through karma, not through mystic yogic exercises, but through devotional service
- In modern days, when the influence of Kali Age is so disturbing, practically everyone is untrained in this art (controlling the life air by the prescribed yogic process) of bodily exercise
- In the hatha-yoga system one has to practice bodily exercises, dhyana, dharana, asana, meditation, etc. One also has to sit in one place in a particular posture and concentrate his gaze on the tip of the nose
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- Tattvatah, Krsna as He is, cannot be understood by the other methods, namely by mental speculation or mystic yogic exercises. Krsna cannot be understood in that way. If we want to understand Krsna, then we have to accept the Krsna method, bhakti method
- There the great sage concentrated his mind by the yogic breathing exercises, and thereby controlling all attachment, he remained standing on one leg only, eating nothing but air, and stood there on one leg for one hundred years
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- Yogic exercise is especially beneficial to keep the air in order so that diseases of the body become almost nil by such exercises. When they are properly done the duration of life also increases, and one can have control over death also by such practices
- Yogic exercise means
- Yogic exercise means to control the mind, dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa (SB 12.13.1). In order to make the mind controlled and fully fixed up on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is required in yoga meditation