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Integrating Today's Yoga with Ancient Ayurvedic Tradition
2140 California Avenue S.W. Seattle, WA. 98126
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Samadhi Pada - Integration of the Mind
Yoga is integration of mind, intellect and ego through the vehicle of observation, attention and reason. Yoga restrains variation in behavior and in state of being. An integrated mind, intellect and ego is neither disturbed nor subject to excessive movement (deranged vata). Both accurate and inaccurate knowledge, illusion, delusion and memory cause aggrevated vata-movement.
Consciousness has five kinds of intelligence. Senselessness, negligence or distraction; scattered thought Vs focus and discipline.
Movement and fluctuation have five types. Correct knowledge Vs misunderstanding; imagination and knowledge based in sleep (dreaming and fantasy) and memory (the past). False perception or misunderstanding is gathered through the senses and thereby influences the mind.
Correct knowledge is direct, inferred or proven as factual. Accurate knowledge is based on three kinds of proof. Direct perception, correct inference or deduction and testimony from authoritative sacred scripture or experienced person.
Repeated practice and detachment are the means to still excess movements of consciousness either painful or non-painful. Practice and detachment develop self-analysis; cohesion, joy and experience of true self. Emptiness or a vacuum will arise from this experience. Hidden impressions will lie dormant, rising during moments of awareness generating more movement and disturbances. Practice must be pursued with trust, confidence and vigor as well as the power of absorption.
Obstacles to practice are disease, inertia, doubt, misunderstanding, neglect and a lack of discipline in/with the senses. In addition are sorrow, pain, grief, distress, unhappiness, mental pain, affliction, dejection, despair, a weak body and irregular breath.
Cultivate gladness, joy, friendliness, compassion and indifference to both pleasure and pain, vice or virtue to overcome obstacles, allowing the consciousness to become both serene and compassionate.
Concentration on the innermost core of the heart reveals a brilliant and radiant light-Jyoti glowing. At the seat of the SOUL, the mind becomes occupied in piercing and permeating the source of being.
"Gain liberation, moksha and freedom from grief and sorrow by contemplation and concentration upon the luminous, sorrowless, effulgent LIGHT-JYOTI."
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