Yoga is key to life, and the Yoga way is The way to life!

1. -Deepak Khaire
-Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari

5. • Is Yoga a time-bound practice?
• Is Yoga only Asanas/Pranayama?
• Is Yoga a physical acrobatics?
• Does spirituality mean only doing
pooja and chanting?

6. Yoga Iceberg

7. Yoga is not a physical exercise, a therapy, an
other -worldly affair but it is a way of life in
which integration of body, mind and intellect
as well as integration with the samashti
around is achieved.

8. Yoga is a way of life based
on vision of Oneness.

9. Thus practice of Yoga is not just Assan and
Pranayam or even efforts at meditation. Yoga
practice cannot be just for an hour or so it
has to be 24 hours living in harmony that
which has manifested as many. Yogabhyas or
practice of yoga is thus living and working
with vision of Oneness..

10. As a hand separated from the body or a
branch separated from the tree cannot
survive similarly when one is separated
in one’s understanding and way of
living from the others cannot be happy.

11. Principal
Yoga Texts
Different definitions of Yoga as given is Shastras focusing
on various dimensions of Yoga way of life

12. Yujyate anena iti Yogah
Yoga is a process of joining.
.

13. Yogachittavritinirodha
Yoga is restraining the mind - stuff
(Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis,
thoughts, modifications).

14. Yogah Manah prashmanopayah
Yoga is
quietening of the mind

15. Atmoupamyen sarvatra samam
pashyati yo Arjun
Sukham va yadi va dukkham sa yogi
paramo matah
The one who sees the everything as his
own Self and thus is full of equanimity in
the pleasure and pain he is the highest
Yogi.

16. Samatvam Yoga uchyate
Equanimity is Yoga

17. The meaning is ‘Yoga
Karmasu’ Kaushalam.
Kushalah is right choice.
Yoga is choosing that in
every action which unites
us with Ishwara.
Yoga karmasu kaushalam
usually is translated as
Efficiency in action is Yoga.

18. What are the indications: That one is
progressing to the Oneness, getting
freed from dehabuddhi (Body
consciousness) –
•Samatva,
•Santosh,
•Sarvasamveshakata,
•Seva,
•Samyama

23. The eight angas are
Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayam,
Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi.