On 4/12/2014 5:12 AM, [email protected] wrote: > "If you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could move mountains." > Yoga is a mechanical processes. There is no religious prayer in the practice, it's not based on faith or a particular belief. Religions are based on faith and surrender, not on individual freedom and will-power.
Success in yoga is not dependent on any kind of religious practice. According to Elliade yoga means freedom and immortality. A "siddha yogi" means "perfected", that is, enlightened, transcended into pure consciousness, which is made manifest in the individual by 'Self-knowledge'. Enlightenment is the state pertaining to 'gnosis' - that which ends the identity of the mind with sense phenomena - knowledge that is 'transcendental', or beyond sense perceptions. "Freedom is a reversal of the evolutionary course of prakriti, which is empty of meaning for the Purusha; it is also the power of consciousness in a state of true identity." - Yoga Sutra, 4.34 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
