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Subrajyoti Duarah

Can Yoga/Meditation lead us to the realization of God?

Meditative Traditions

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  • Datta Swami
    Order of today’s Yoga: (Excerpt from message of Shri Datta Swami)

    It has become the fashion of the day to use the word Yoga for every activity. Yoga means simply attainment. But attainment of what is important? The Yoga shastra of Patanjali uses this word strictly in the attainment of Eswara (Lord). To render service (practical devotion) to the Lord, mental and physical health is needed. The early five stages (Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama and Pratyahara) concentrate on this attainment of...  more
  • Subrajyoti Duarah
    This is indeed some very soulful insights. OM!
  • Pooja Bishht
    Yes, certainly. When u meditate you connect with ur higher soul and ultimately connect with god.
  • Gurender
    Of course, which is why they were discovered and propagated at first place.

    Now at present time it depends whether you learn yoga for what it really stands for or drama like of West who see yoga as mere new fashion.
  • Pooja Ahuja
    Viswanathan Wonderful thoughts...
  • Viswanathan
    According to Hindu scriptures, salvation is the process by which a person realizes that he/she is not the perishable body but the Atman-the immortal soul within.

    That is the reason why Hindu Salvation is known as self- realization or Moksha (means emancipation, liberation or release from the cycles of birth, death and rebirth).

    Self-Realization means “realizing” one is the “self” (immortal soul).

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    Lord Krishna said there are four...  more