Swami Krishnananda - Yoga Meditation and Japa Sadhana, @Yoga
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YOGA, MEDITATION AND
JAPA SADHANA
by
S
WAMI
K
RISHNANANDA
The Divine Life Society
Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India
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CONTENTS
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Part 1
YOGA AND MEDITATION
The Philosophical Foundations of Yoga
I shall endeavour to portray in simple terms what one may
regard as the central objective of human life and the possible
methodology that could be adopted in implementing this
objective, and its realisation. You must have heard a lot about
what is known as yoga. And many a textbook, many a
discourse must have given you varied information on this
mysterious technique known as the art of the practice of
yoga. In simple terms, without involving technicalities, if
yoga is to be defined, it can be called the system of harmony.
For example, what is called harmony in the English language,
yoga is in Sanskrit. Yoga is nothing mystifying or beyond the
conception of human understanding. But there is a great
proviso in this simple definition of yoga as harmony. While it
is true that harmony in every field of life is what we seek in
our day-to-day existence, it is necessary to know what
harmony actually means. And when the essential of that
simple fact called harmony gets imbibed into our
consciousness, our personality gets stabilised. Stability of
personality, equilibrium of consciousness, harmony in all
walks of life, is yoga.
Harmony implies an adjustment of oneself with an
environment that is external to oneself. When there is no
proper adjustment of one thing with another thing, we call it
disharmony. When there is a proper adjustment, a smooth
working of one principle, one fact, one object, one person
with another, we regard it as harmony. Now, the question
which may arise in our mind at the very outset is, why should
harmony be the central objective. Why should harmony be
regarded as the essential of life?
The reason is the very structure of the universe. The universe
is a system of harmony. We, as human individuals, form part
of this universe. We form part of it in such a way that we are
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