साधना
Welcome sishyas (students),
Welcome sishyas (students),
I am so glad that you have decided to deepen your yoga practice —your sadhana.
Formalizing the yoga and committing to a daily practice can be a very transformative experience.
I urge you to keep a record of your journey. Every day write in a small notebook, or journal to register your thoughts and impressions. It may prove to be an invaluable resource to you as you walk along this road of change and growth.
Formalizing the yoga and committing to a daily practice can be a very transformative experience.
I urge you to keep a record of your journey. Every day write in a small notebook, or journal to register your thoughts and impressions. It may prove to be an invaluable resource to you as you walk along this road of change and growth.
This site is where you will find readings, images and quotes for inspiration during your Sadhana Course at Loka Yoga.
I bow to your studentship (adhikara) and your wish to grow in yoga through self study (svadyaya)
Yours in Yoga.
Alice
I bow to your studentship (adhikara) and your wish to grow in yoga through self study (svadyaya)
Yours in Yoga.
Alice
Below are links to the readings for the first two weeks of your Sadhana
— Meher Baba
Yoga is primarily a practice intended to make someone wiser, more able to understand things than they were before. If asanas help in this, terrific! In not, then some other means can be found instead. The goal is always bhakti, or to put it in my father's words, to approach the highest intelligence, namely, God.
—TKV Desikachar, The Heart of Yoga (Interview with Mark Whitwell)
Sādhanā is a discipline undertaken in the pursuit of a goal. Abhyāsa is repeated practice performed with observation and reflection. Kriyā, or action, also implies perfect execution with study and investigation. Therefore, sādhanā, abhyāsa, and kriyā all mean one and the same thing. A sādhaka, or practitioner, is one who skillfully applies...mind and intelligence in practice towards a spiritual goal.
—Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, B.K.S. Iyengar Commentary
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty.”
—Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana
In the spiritual field it is not possible to maintain an unbridgeable
gulf between Sadhana and the end sought through it. This gives rise to
the fundamental paradox that, in the spiritual field, the practising of a Sadhana in itself amounts to a partial participation in the goal.
—Meher Baba
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Week Two: Avidya
अविद्य
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is
like a train of moods, like a string of beads, and, as we pass through
them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their
own hue.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nourishing the Physical 1
Pranayama for Week 2
Reading
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will be time, there will be time
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire
तपःस्वाध्यायेश्वरप्रणिधानानि क्रियायोगः॥१॥
tapah svadyaya isvara pranidhana kriya yogah
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