Saturday, December 20, 2008

Tenets of Yoga Philosophy

Into ancient India, philosophy was traditionally divided into two principal groups. These groups are called as an orthodoxe group and groups heretic. The orthodoxe group believes in authority of Vedas in all the philosophical subjects. These orthodoxe systems are six in all. One of the most popular systems of philosophy is yoga.
It shares the following universal belief with the other orthodoxe systems:
. Belief in the permanent heart, which forms the base of the life.
. The heart is supposed to throw a body per hour of died and to write nine per hour of the new birth.
. A strong belief in the karma, which declares that the events occurring in the life of a person are direct results of the events in its preceding life or lives (if the person were born much from time).
. A belief which the life of an individual is mainly of misery and the pain.
. A belief in the state of complete absence of misery and the pain called the mukti or the moksha.
Yoga adopts the dualistic doctrines to explain the universe of the objects and the living beings. It supposes that the universe in the beginning was created by the union or the samyoga of two eternal realities called the purusha and the prakriti. Purusha forms the base of all the spiritual objects while the prakriti treats the material objects. Prakriti and very which comes from him has three gunas namely: sattva, rajo and tamas in various proportions and combinations.
Sattvaguna treats all that is pure and holy while the rajasguna treats all the royal rich person and qualities and the tamasguna treat all lower qualities like avarice, covetousness, anger, fear etc the samyoga of the purusha and of the prakriti is virtual. There does not exist but only the spirit being unaware of thinks that it is true. It is due to the illusion called the avidya and binds the purusha and causes it with the transmigrate from one body to another in the various births. Once the avidya is dissipated completely, one can freely break cycle of the bith and death and can carry out the moksha. This is easily carried out while following the eightfold way given by Patanjali in its Yogasutras

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