Dharana (Concentration)

Fix the mind on some object either within the body or outside. Keep it there steady for some time. This is Dharana. You will have to practise this daily. Laya-Yoga has its basis on Dharana.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

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Dhyana:

Meditation. Dhyan or dhyana is the Sanskrit word for meditation, but it has a narrower meaning. Dhyana is when the concentration is focused on a single point.

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Ashtanga yoga:

the eight fold path of yoga as outlined by Patanjali: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, samadhi

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dharana

Fixed mental concentration, the seventh of the eight steps in the yoga method of Patanjali. When dhyana, meditation, is more deeply focused it becomes dharana.

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Dhyana

The practice of concentration--i.e., meditation. Also, more specifically, the four form concentrations and the four formless concentrations.

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Dhyana (Sanskrit). In Buddhism one of the six Paramitas of perfection, a state of abstraction which carries the ascetic practising it far above this plane of sensuous perception and out of the world of matter.

Lit., "contemplation". The six stages of Dhyan differ only in the degrees of abstraction of the personal Ego from sensuous life.

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Dhyana:

Dhyana(m): (Bhagavatha Vahini) Meditation, equanimity (BV-1), (BV-44).

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Brahma-dhyana:

Brahma-dhyana (-dhyaana). Meditation on Brahman.

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Dhyana:

Tantric trance, possibly a form of hypnosis.

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dhyana-rupa:

dhyana-rupa (dhyaana-ruupa). Form of meditation.

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dhyana:

meditation

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 Dhyana:

contemplation

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Dhyana (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root dhyai to contemplate, meditate)

Profound spiritual-intellectual contemplation, with utter detachment from all objects of sense and of a lower mental character; one of the six paramitas in Buddhism.

See also JHANA

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 Jyotir Dhyana:

luminous contemplation

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Dhyana: meditation

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To attain jitendriyata is to achieve full control over ones senses. This leads to what is called God-realisation. In this controlled state all pain and suffering cease permanently.

There are different paths to achieve this height: Gyan yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga, hatha yoga, swara yoga, nada yoga, astanga yoga; all of these lead to the same goal of achieving communion with God. The shortest and most suitable path ordained in this Kali Yuga is bhakti yoga.

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Dhyana-marga (Sanskrit) (from dhyana meditation + marga path)

The path of meditation or profound spiritual-intellectual contemplation.

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Astanga yoga:

 Astanga yoga: Eight aspects of yoga described by Patanjali as follows: yama (restraints on behavior), niyama (spiritual observances), asana (seat, posture, practice of postures), pranayama (expansion of vital energy through control of breath), pratyahara ( withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), samadhi (complete absorption)

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Ashtanga Yoga: The "eight-limbed" Yoga of Patanjali consisting of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi (see separate entries for each "limb").

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Anga:

Anga ("limb"): a fundamental category of the yogic path, such as asana, dharana, dhyana, niyama, pranayama, pratyahara, samadhi, yama; also the body (deha, sharira)

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Astanga-yoga - the yoga system consisting of eight parts: yama (control of the senses) , niyama (control of the mind) , asana (bodily postures) , pranayama (breath control) , pratyahara (withdrawal of the mind from sensory perception) , dharana (steadying the mind) , dhyana (meditation) , and samadhi (deep and unbroken absorption on the Lord in the heart).

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dhyana: (Sanskrit) "Meditation." See: internalized worship, meditation, raja yoga.

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