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Yoga and Self-Development - Softcover

P. Dinakar; BOOKMAN

 
9789385877308: Yoga and Self-Development

Synopsis

Yoga is India's oldest scientific and spiritual discipline. It trains both the mind and the body. It offers simple remedies, easy techniques and healthy methods to assure physical and mental fitness to human beings. It shows the human beings to lead the life in a right path. The word yoga means 'to add' or 'to unite' the individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. It balances and harmonizes the body, the mind and the emotions with the help of Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, Shatkarma and Meditation. They help to maintain a good balance among physical and spiritual world. The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha (liberation), though the exact definition of what form this takes depends on the philosophical or theological system with which it is conjugated. Yoga helps to create an equilibrium between strength and flexibility in the human body. It teaches the art of living the life in its full volume and versatility in perfect harmony with the self and others. The practice of yoga especially in the form the ashtanga (the eight limbs of yoga) provide immense help in assisting an individual to seek his all¬round growth and development. It helps the students in solving the problems of unhappiness, restlessness, conditional imbalance etc. It helps the man to evoke the hidden potentialities of a man in a systematic and scientific way by which man becomes a full individual.

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