Thursday, June 12, 2008

ASANA(postures)

Asana are the 84 yogic postures,mistakenly reffered to as 'yoga' in the west. Asana is just the third limb of the yog. An asana is mastered when a practitioner can remain quite comfortable in that posture. -yogdarshan(2/46).


As cited earlier ,just by mastering a few orall 84 asana a does not make a yogi . he needs to practice all the factors of Yam and Niyam,prior to practicing asana, as well as those that follow it.

A few practical rituals which automatically incorporate several asans in the daily life of the bhakta are: padmasan(lotus posture) and surya namaskar in the form of the dandvat pranams in the morning puja.

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