~ Nibbananupassana @ MV ~: GAQ BP 101 - 18th March 2012 (Sunday)

Yoga Philosophy
Mainly dealing with meditation
There are 6 kinds of Indian Thought
There is the syatematical practice of meditation yoga in the Patanjali Sutra
There also existed this yoga practice in the Dravidian period
Yoga philosophy deals with discipline
It aims to unite the ultimate truths about the nature of man and the world
Yoga philosophy can be found in : Jainism, Buddhism
Shankhya, Nyaya, Vaisesika and Vedanta
Shankhya has only theory and no practice but later accepted yoga into its practice to realize truths
Kaivalya is the liberatioin from everything and mainly depends on yoga which is related to realizing wisdom pertaining to metaphysical propositions and episemology
In Yogic Philosophy, there must be a creator God called "Isvara" meaning chief or highest God
Purusa is the self free from all bondages and physical miseries and pain
Prakuti have bonds but n mental energy and no mind
Prakuti have to contact other purusas
Supreme Purusas cannot create prakuti and purusas and it inly acts asa support base
Perfection is achieved through graded means
Through meditation, it allows them to known the inperfection compared to God
Yoga frees man from shackles of Prakuti and know the true nature of self as immortal, all prevading and independant
Knowledge can destroy ignorance and illusion that binds self to Prakuti
There are 4 Divisions of Yoga

Introduction to nature, goal and method, modification of body organ, citta and yogic techniques leading to the cessation of modification

Analysis of suffering, cause and elimination. Suffeings of mental states, actoins and effects, attachments to effects, karma and bondages

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