YOGA WITH NIKI

  INTRODUCTION               In current era whole world is practicing yoga but miss conception about yoga is that yoga is only physical practice but it has some theory and spiritual aspect too."YAMAS" in simple term called the rules to follow if yogi wants to meet the divine. Maharshi patanjali showed eight pillars of yoga is called "ASTANGA YOGA"(yoga which has eight stage).               In simple terms "YAMAS" means "self control"  (आत्म संयम) .For the very first time "YAMAS" world was introduced in the world in the "RIGVEDA".More than 50 Indian scriptures have used word "YAMAS". In Indian scripture "YAGYAVALYAKA SMRITI" (याज्ञवल्यक स्मृति) there is 10 "YAMAS" mentioned. According to Maharshi Patanjali YAMAS are SARVBHAUM MAHAVRATAS (सावॅभौम महावत)... Which  means "In any situation,in any time, at any place, universally human should follow the rules" There is two parts of YAMAS  1.MA

  Introduction to yoga In ancient times human faced lots of problems in life physically and mentally. To protect human mankind from this kind of issues sages find the way through meditation and extra ordinary powers and wrote it down in Indian culture it is called “Darshan”( दशॅनम् )   Awareness of yoga According to the Indian scriptures the lord of the yoga practices is lord Hiranyagarbh “ हिरण्यगभॅ योगस्य वक्तानायः पुरातनाः || In GEETA lord Shree Krishna said that “Oh Arjuna! I’ve given yoga knowledge to the Lord Sun,then he delivered it to his sun Ishwaku and other kings that’s how yoga is spreaded over the world.   Origin of the yoga word Originally yoga word ids derived from the word “ युज ” which means “to engage”   Different definitions of yoga According to Maharshi Patanjali : “ योगश्चितवृतिनिरोघः || “ According to Kathopanishada : “ तामयोगनितिनन्यते स्थिरांइन्दिय धरणाम् | तां योगमिति मन्यते स्थिरामिन्दयधारणाम् ||   According to Geetaji :