The Yoga Sutras are built on a foundation of the Bhagavad Gita. In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali prescribes adherence to eight “limbs” or steps (the sum of which constitute “Ashtanga Yoga”,) to quiet one’s mind and merge with the infinite.<\/p>\n
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Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi.<\/p>\n
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Ashtanga yoga consists of the following levels:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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1. Yama<\/strong> = abstentions\u00a0 (Abstention is the practice of refraining from something)<\/p>\n These are 5 in number\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 ahimsa = abstention from violence = non-violence to all beings<\/p>\n \u2022 satya = abstention from lying = truth<\/p>\n \u2022 asteya = abstention from theft<\/p>\n \u2022 brahma charya = abstention from sexual activity<\/p>\n \u2022 aparigraha = abstention from possessions<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 2. Niyama<\/strong> = observances<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n These also are 5 in number:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 Saucha = purity\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 Santosha = contentment<\/p>\n \u2022 Tapas = austerities<\/p>\n \u2022 Svadhyaya = study<\/p>\n \u2022 Ishvarapranidhana = surrender to God<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 3. Asana<\/strong> – Postures of the body<\/p>\n 4. Pranayama<\/strong> – Control of prana or vital breath<\/p>\n 5. Pratyahara<\/strong> – Abstraction; “is that by which the senses do not come into contact with their objects<\/p>\n 6. Dharana<\/strong> – Fixing the attention on a single object; concentration<\/p>\n 7. Dhyana<\/strong> – Meditation<\/p>\n 8. Samadhi<\/strong> – Super-conscious state or trance<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Yoga Sutras are built on a foundation of the Bhagavad Gita. In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali prescribes adherence to eight “limbs” or steps (the sum of which constitute “Ashtanga Yoga”,) to quiet one’s mind and merge with the infinite. \u00a0 What are Astanga Yogas ? \u00a0 Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnushivamandir.org.au\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}