interesting yoga articles and interviews

feeds@yuku.com (m108) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:26:26 GMT

Namaste dear yogis & yoginis! My name is Ilya and i`m yogateacher, co-founder and co-editor of Russian Yoga Magazine. Its first magazine in Russia about theory & practice of Yoga. Here on my personal website http://mahadev108.narod.ru/library.htm you can read some of my articles and interviews which i published in Yoga Magazine from 2003 to 2009. I will update this page from time to time...

Literal Translation of the Ashtanga and Mangala Mantras?

feeds@yuku.com (Iraputra) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:58:05 GMT

When I practise I would like to know a little more what each and every Sanskrit word in the mantras mean. Is there a literal translation available, which explains the single words rather than just giving an English translation of the whole mantras? For instance:

Vande gurunam...

I praise at the lotus feet of the gurus,
The awakening happiness of ones own self revealed,

Beyond better, acting like the jungle...

Yama, Niyama and Asana

feeds@yuku.com (Iraputra) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:26:32 GMT

Hi!

I'm rather new to yoga, and even fresher to this forum, so please bear with me if I'm out of line posting these tedious ramblings on some thoughts I've had lately.

For those who might not want to read through all of this message: My conclusion is that I think we need more yama and niyama in practice, but I do realize that the implementation of such an approach might be a rather sensitive matter, for teachers and students alike. On the other hand, I think...

meditation - the seventh limb?

feeds@yuku.com (yogithomas) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:05:21 GMT

I've only been practicing asana for a couple of years and I have yet to be taught much Pranayanma or to seriously try Meditating.

I have heard Sharath say in conference that the 8 limbs should be mastered in their sequential order. I think he said that you shouldn't practice any pranayama until you are quite far into the advanced A series and that you shouldn't practice any medition until you have mastered Pranayama, Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) and Dharana...

What exactly is 'enlightenment'?

feeds@yuku.com (Mr Ben) — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:18:32 GMT

I'm interested to kick off a bit of a debate on what you regular practitioners feel enlightenment is. I've read about, and actually do notice, a better quality of thought on a regular basis, and enhanced appreciation of nature, silence etc. How about you?

Why accelerate evolution?

feeds@yuku.com (bluh2o ) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:11:56 GMT

Often my nature is to force events to happen. That tendency gets in the way of experiencing events. I've learned slowly that if you just let them be, events happen in a smooth and natural manner. Along this line of thought why are we trying so hard, (practicing, meditating, living morally), to accelerate our ascendance to that optimum state of evolution? Why rush it?

Can you help with this...?

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:49:10 GMT

Namaste All...!

I have been struggling over a quandry for a while now - hope you can throw some light on it for me

I posted a message on the MIS forum, you may have seen it? Mahamudra/Vipassana. Its an old chestnut of sorts for me. Allow me to explain. If you strip away all the 'stuff' around Tibetan Vajrayana like the particular deities and look at the intrinsic practice of...

Tendencies of Kaliyuga

feeds@yuku.com (DesiYogi) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:34:24 GMT

Dear All,
I'm presenting this brilliant article from the renowned Vedic astrologer Shri KN Rao. We are living in Kaliyuga ( the dark age ) and its increasingly difficult to find a real Guru. This article gives you an insight of the current scenario. I'm no Yoga guru or a Sattwic person. I'm presenting this article here so that people here ( I'm assuming majority of people here are non-Indian attracted to Yoga because of its health benefits ) who are genuinely interested...

I don't know much about transcending, angels, or heavenly visions.

feeds@yuku.com (Anniekin) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:47:59 GMT

I don't know much about transcending, angels, or heavenly visions.

The meditation that I know involves the single minded concentration that is spoken of in the traditional yogic system.

It is the feeling of being fully awake, perceptive, and focused.

Let me reiterate that using the traditional science of yoga, which is categorized by 8 'limbs', or stages of practices and masteries.

Asanas, or the contortionist postures that yoga is commonly...

A call to all female Ashtangis .... please read

feeds@yuku.com (skelly) — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:16:46 GMT

Hi Guys,
I am after any pearls of wisdom from female Ashtanginis to put together a little booklet/book.
The point of what I am calling "project Ashtangini" (till I think of a better name) is to put together a resource for fellow Ashtanginis that is both light hearted and informative.
The idea came to me when I asked a male teacher, one quite high up in the yoga world how long it takes after having babies to really get back...

titthibhasana

feeds@yuku.com (rtsvet) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:22:19 GMT

Why TiTTibha (ṭiṭṭibha) in TiTTibhAsana is translated firefly?
That is a kind of small bird? For which it's spoken in Manu V, 1- 56 or Hitopadesa 2.146?

Perhaps they mean - titibha which is small insect (cochineal L) but it is in no case filefly! I've seen so many misspellings!

Qudraphenia

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:46:09 GMT

Nothing to do with 'The Who' sorry...

I am not sure who said it but I recall somone saying "...choose a path then stick to it". Over recent months I have been like a leaf in the wind being blown from one set of tools to another without any capacity to remaining in one long enough to gain any real benefit. Its almost schizoid the way it manefests. Not like me at all...

Don't get it...?

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:29:55 GMT

No offence to those members who are clearly interested in neuroscience...however; it seems to me that articles with such arrogant claims like "Scientists Find God in the Brain" or "Neuroscience Explains the Nature of Enlightenment" are creating a rift and a definite us/them scenario.

Anybody with a vestiage of an understanding of Emptiness has to concede that it it fundamentally impossible for subjective phenomena to be located in an objective organ like the...

Four ages

feeds@yuku.com (Lavazza64) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:56:46 GMT

What is your take on the four ages of man?

In an old long thread somebody wrote of ashtangis putting their practice before their family. That would run contrary to the idea of the househoulder phase where you put your obligations to your family first after having spent your youth devoted to spiritual practice.

How do you see a "modern" evolution of the different ages of man for an ashtangi who most of the time has come in contact with the practice much later than the...

vedanta primer

feeds@yuku.com (AliJG) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:38:04 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good basic (though not idiot-level) primer on vedanta?

Darwin's soul

feeds@yuku.com (bluh2o ) — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:59:02 GMT

I hadn't looked at it that way before, until my wife mentioned it. She believes in next lives. She's a botanist. Everything evolves. Why not your soul?

The other five darhsans

feeds@yuku.com (vagabond 16III) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:35:34 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knew if the other five (okay, really four, other than Yoga and Vedanta) darshanas of traditional indian philosophy are still practiced. I know that Sri T. Krishnamarcharya was educated in all of the branches of Indian philosophy, but i never hear about masters in the Nyaya or Mimamsa traditions.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

W.

Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence NASA

feeds@yuku.com (DesiYogi) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:35:53 GMT

Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence NASA
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial
Intelligence

by
Rick Briggs
Roacs, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California
Abstract
In the past twenty years, much time, effort, and money has
been expended on designing an unambiguous representation of natural
languages to make them accessible to computer processing. These efforts
have centered around creating schemata designed to parallel...

Shunyata

feeds@yuku.com (yogavajra) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:18:08 GMT

If Nargajuna and Shantideva are right then would it be fair to say that any other philosophy that doesn't use Emptiness as its fulcrum is doomed to failure?

Indeed anything that looks upon any phenomena as inherently existent is fundamentally flawed.

Thanks,

Tony...

ps. this is meant to be evocative not provocative

Buddhist Geeks

feeds@yuku.com (elegant homunculus) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:36:56 GMT

This website is a nice resource:

Buddhist Geeks

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