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spiritual meanings of asanas

yogagirl
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Jun 30, 2007, 6:43 AM

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Hello. Can anyone tell me how I can find out the spiritual meanings of asanas? If not here, do you know any good links?

Kimhonam
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Jul 3, 2007, 10:11 PM

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Its an inner realization. Practice and practice and practice.
warm regards

pascal
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Jul 25, 2007, 12:14 PM

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Forget about all this religious garbage...free your mind. yoga is (should be) all about freedom. religion is an alienation; all religions .... I know that, unfotunately, many yoga teachers talk too much about buddha, shiva, and so on...
Pascal Smile

Bryan Alexander
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Aug 1, 2007, 5:36 AM

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Pascal, some of us think that spiritual practice itself helps us to liberate our minds.

pascal
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Aug 19, 2007, 10:28 AM

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Hello Bryan ; i am sure it helps , but (i know it is a very old and difficult debate where many philisophers whrote thousands of books...) how can one accept without any logical proof the existence of an entity named "god" ? if someone feel like this entity exists (he has the revelation of it) , very weel, he can worship the divinity he has choosen and yoga helps to get closer to it; but if you don't have any revelation of that kind, is it a solution to do "as if this entity exists" ? I agree on the idea that spiritual practice helps to free the mind, but if you don't believe in any divine entity, you must do without it. it is more difficult, but , is there another choice? Another idea is that with a long pratice, you may have the revelation of a the divine nature of the universe.... well, as said Patthabi Joys "practice and everything will come" (i like this idea). I exagerated a bit in my last post that appears to me ( after 3 weeks of holydays in the alps mountain ) too brutal Unsure

sorry about it if i shocked some Shocked

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Bryan Alexander
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Aug 20, 2007, 5:59 AM

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If you have no experience of anything that is beyond the logical, then do not rest on empty beliefs in that.

On the other hand, if you have had experiences that do not fit into logical proofs, then you must entertain the possibility that logic does not provide a complete refuge. You must also be alert to possible experiences that cannot be held safely in the hands of science.

How about love? Can love be logically proven to exist? Is it only a complex of temporary emotional attachments?

I suspect that with regard to revelation, not everyone experiences a lightning-bolt moment of realization that transforms them forever. Some of us have to keep our eyes open to little experiences that point to a higher power, and then we might forget about those experiences because we are caught up in the surface details of living life in the material world, and then something reminds us again, and eventually we realize that part of our practice is to keep remembering the little things.

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