--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > It's still better to have half a loaf if you're starving. > > I agree, of course, MMY has changed my life, you kiddin' :-) > > > But, for the benefit of a determinedly secular chap who doesn't want > > to miss any limbs, what are Yama and Niyama? > > Yama and Niyama are the prescriptions and proscriptions of Yoga as > taught by Maharishi Patanjali. > > Yama: Truthfulness, non-violence (ahimsa), Non-covetousness, Celibacy > (brahmacharya), Non-acceptance of others' possessions. > > NiYama: Purification, Contentment, Austerity, Study, and Devotion. > > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi chose only to teach the last 6 limbs of Yoga (in > order to teach it as a science, IMO) which are: Asana (good posture > for meditating), Pranayama (breath *control*), Pratyahara, Dharana > (translated as concentration, MMY calls it making an *effortless > effort*), Dhyana (actual meditation or transcendental awareness), and > Samadhi (the means AND the end). > > "Each limb is designed to create the state of Yoga in the sphere of > life to which it relates." MMY > > "With the continuous practice of ALL of these limbs, or *means*, > simultaneously, the state of Yoga grows simultaneously in ALL the > eight spheres of life..." MMY > > MMY Gita under Yoga/appendix. >
Thank you BG, I'm better informed and apparently doing quite a lot of those two limbs already, but I guess you have to be doing it all for it to count ;-)
