Sermon About Yoga

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Sermon About Yoga When beginning Yoga and during its practice, numerous impediments begin arriving forcibly. During yogic practice the daily routine of the practitioner comes as the first impediment in the individual’s spiritual upliftment; it proves an obstacle at the very first step of Yoga the area of bodily yoga. For this we require extra will power in abundant quantities, so that the person may be able to face the problems coming on his way to the yogic union with the supreme one. If we swim with the current motion comes effortlessly, but if decide to swim against it, then we predictably require more energy. It is this energy which if it manages to rise above the current helps the person defy the current.

‘During the phase of meditative trance, obsta cles begin coming forcibly. In such a condition the yogi ought to jettison these obstacles gra- dually.’Thus has been said in the Yoga darśana of Patanjali. Disease, despair, doubt, negligence, sloth, hankering for carnal pleasaures, false perception, dissatisfaction and disorganization- these are the nine deflections of the conscious mind under the step of meditative trance these nine impurities of the mind are mentioned. It is imperative to know how to remove these before one begins Yoga. (Samādhipada 30)