tailieunhanh - Karma Yoga

All asans are not necessary for overall improvement of health. Moreover after a certain age, because of non-malleability of the muscles and joints, most of the asans cannot be practiced. But five or six asans are sufficient for overall improvement of health. In general I would suggest padmasan, sarbangasan + matsyasan, bazrasan, halasan, sarpasan (bhujangasan), gomukhasan, pabanmuktasan and janusirasan. These are very simple asans and there are competent teachers in every gym in India. Add to these simple pranayams. Ramdeva (notwi. | Karma Yoga By Ratan Lal Basu Copyright 2011 Ratan Lal Basu Smashwords Edition Smashwords Edition License Notes Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book it remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be reproduced copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book please encourage your friends to download their own copy at where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support. Contents I. Yoga Spiritual and Secular II. Components of Yoga III. Principles of Karma Yoga IV. Excerpts from Gita V. Excerpts from Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda VI. A Story by Swami Vivekananda The Author I. Yoga Spiritual and Secular There are much misgivings about Yoga. It has occasionally been associated with solely religion and spiritualism. However yoga aims at uplift of human body and mind and it may be either spiritual or secular. The essential ingredients of yoga are karma work or action and bhakti devotion . If karma and devotion are associated with union with the supreme then certainly yoga assumes its spiritual feature. On the other hand if a secular scientist is devoted to his subject of research and engaged in unconditional research activities to discover some law of nature he could be considered as Karma-yogi and Jnan-yogi without being ostensibly spiritual. The essential question is unselfish commitment and action unperturbed any care for money fame praise abuse or any material gains other than the object of devotion. In common parlance nine kinds of yoga are mentioned Raj-yoga Bhakti-yoga Karma-yoga Janan-yoga Hath-yoga Lay-yoga Tantra-yoga Mantra-yoga and Kundalini-yoga. However it is very difficult to isolate one type of yoga from the other. They are interdependent and there are areas of overlap. However no yoga is possible without karma and devotion. A distinct differentiation between tanra and yoga proper is that in the former absolute .