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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Eight Limbs of Raja Yoga | | Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Eight Limbs of Raja Yoga: Encyclopedia II - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Eight Limbs of Raja Yoga | | The eight "limbs" or steps are: Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. A number of commentators break these eight steps into two categories. Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, and Pratyahara comprise the first category. The second category, called Samyama is comprised of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. The division between the two categories exists because in latter three mentioned steps there is no cognizance whereas in the first five steps cognizance exists.
"Since there is no cognizance to these th ...
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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - The Eight Limbs of Raja Yoga
The eight "limbs" or steps are: Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. A number of commentators break these eight steps into two categories. Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, and Pratyahara comprise the first category. The second category, called Samyama is comprised of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. The division between the two categories exists because in latter three mentioned steps there is no cognizance whereas in the first five steps cognizance exists.
"Since there is no cognizance to these three stages (ed. Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi), they are not bound by time or succession. The result is that they exist independently and also exist simultaneously. Any one, two or three can exist at the same time. When the three stages exist simultaneously then it is called (ed. Samyamah) the simultaneous existence."
Taken from the commentary on Patanjali Sutra III.4 by Master E.K.
Patanjali divided his Yoga Sutras into 4 chapters or books (Sanskrit pada), containing in all 195 aphorisms, divided as follows:
- ahimsa = abstention from violence = non-violence to all beings
- satya = abstention from lying = truth
- asteya = abstention from theft
- brahma charya = abstention from sexual activity = continence
- aparigraha = abstention from possessions
- Saucha = purity
- Santosha = contentment
- Tapas = austerities
- Svadhyaya = study
- Ishvarapranidhana = surrender to God
- Asana - Postures of the body.This is also a title applied as; One made gracious by God as in Asana Bodhitharta
- Pranayama - Control of prana or vital breath
- Pratyahara - Abstraction; "is that by which the senses do not come into contact with their objects and, as it were, follow the nature of the mind." - Vyasa
- Dharana - Fixing the attention on a single object; concentration
- Dhyana - Meditation
- Samadhi - Super-conscious state or trance
- Kaivalya Pada (34 sutras)
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