Mircea Eliade YOGA IMMORTALITY AND ... - Brihaspati.net

Patanjali, practice involves several categories of physiological and spiritual exercises
(called anga, "members") that must be learned if you want to get the ekagrata, and even
beyond, the highest concentration, samadhi . These "members" of Yoga can be both
considered as part of a group of techniques and stages of spiritual ascetic itinerary as last
stage is the final liberation. They are: 1) the restraints (yama) 2 °) disciplines (niyama) 3
°) the attitudes and positions of the body (handle-na), 4 °) the rate of respiration
(pranayama), 5 °) emancipating-ing the sensory activity of the domain of external objects
(pratyahara) 6 °) concentration (Dharana), 7 °) yogi meditation (dhyana), 8 °) samadhi
(Yoga-Sutra, II, 29: is this Sutra Patanjali begins Yoga of the techniques that prosi-gue in
Book III).
Each class (anga) of practices and disciplines is a definite goal. Patanjali hierarchy so
these "limbs of yoga" that the yogi can not do without either of them, except in certain
cases. The first two groups, Yama and Niyama, are obviously unavoidable preliminaries
any asceticism, therefore offer no particular species-cally yogi. The "restraints (yama)
purify some reprobate by all moral sins but tolerated by social life. But the moral
commandments can no longer be that "Brant here-as in civil life without risk for immediately
who seek liberation. Any failure immediately accused, in Yoga, its consequences.
Vyasa (ad YS, II, 30) makes some clarifications, not devoid of interest, with respect to
the five "restraints" include: ahimsa, "no kill" satya "not lie"; asteya "not steal";
brahmacarya "abstinence" apa-rigraha, "not being greedy. "Ahimsa" means not causing
pain to be al-Guno, and never in any way. The restraints (yama) and disciplines (niyama)
that follow are rooted in ahisma and tend to improve the ahimsa (...). Truthfulness (satya)
con-sists according to the word and thought with action. The thoughts and words
correspond to vision, hearing and Income-down. The words are pronounced in order to
communicate knowledge. You can only say that the word has been used for the general
good and not for harm, when that is not misleading or confusing, or sterile. However, if
states have been detrimental, has been pronounced by typing "without deceit, without
confusion, or sterility, that word is not true, only a sin (...). So, everyone must think very
carefully, and then recently to express the view-ing for the good of all beings (...). Theft
(stey) is the illegal act of taking things belonging to others. Abstention from theft (asteya)
is the destruction of the desire to steal. The brahmacarya is the restraint of the secret
forces (ie, the generating force: Brahmacargam guptendriyasyopas-thasya samyamah).
The absence of greed (aparigraha) is the non-appropriation of things outside, and is a
consequence of an understanding of sin consists in dedicating itself to excess goods.Thus
and the damage caused by the accumulation, conservation or dis - destruction of
possessions.
These "restraints" may be recognized by all eti-tion performed by an apprentice yogi as
much as any honest and pure. His practice did not seek any state-speci cally Yogi, but a
human state "purified", superior to common humanity. This purity is essential in ul-stage
deterioration. Through her selfish tendencies are suppressed, and
create new centers of experience. Sexual abstinence is aimed at conservation of nervous
energy. Yoga gives prime importance to these "secret forces generated power-ra", which,
when used, scatter the most precious energy, weak-as brain capacity and become difficult
to concentrate, if, by contrast, are dominated and "restrained", facilitate contemplative
ascent. You must add, however, that sexually abstain (brahmacarya) means not only