Yoga - The Indian Secular Spiritualism
YOGA is a word from Sanskrit language. It means UNION. In spiritual terms YOGA means union between the MICROCOSMS (consciousness of a human being (Jeev – Chaitanya) and the MACRO–CONCIOUS the ultimate truth (Param - Chaitanya). Whatever name we give him per Indian scriptures - Brahma (unattached, formless attribute), Iswar (the creator), Bhagwan (God) (manifest from with attributes, playful incarnation) or God, Allah, Jehovah and also to his sons, ambassadors and the preceptors who are in direct commune with the supreme truth.
All paths that help to attain the ultimate TRUTH are called YOGA – PATH.
Bhagawad–Gita (1500 B.C.) the holy scripture in the form of a dialogue between GURU (Krishna) and disciple (Arjuna) enumerates the different “YOGA – PATH”. Great non Indian scholars like Gette, Aldus Huxle, Max-Muller (European); Al-Beruni, Abul-Fazal (Arabian); Prof. J. Tarakhusu (Japanese) to mention a few unanimously declared that all spiritual philosophies ever promulgated any where in the world are to be found in Bhagwat Geeta.
Bhagawad Gita, elaborates in great details the various yogic paths to reach the ultimate goal of self actualization.
All paths that help to attain the ultimate TRUTH are called YOGA – PATH.
Bhagawad–Gita (1500 B.C.) the holy scripture in the form of a dialogue between GURU (Krishna) and disciple (Arjuna) enumerates the different “YOGA – PATH”. Great non Indian scholars like Gette, Aldus Huxle, Max-Muller (European); Al-Beruni, Abul-Fazal (Arabian); Prof. J. Tarakhusu (Japanese) to mention a few unanimously declared that all spiritual philosophies ever promulgated any where in the world are to be found in Bhagwat Geeta.
Bhagawad Gita, elaborates in great details the various yogic paths to reach the ultimate goal of self actualization.
- Karma Yoga. (Selfless work for pleasure of God).
- Gnyan Yoga. (Monotheism, illusionism and nirvana)
- Dhyana Yoga. (Transendental meditation)
- Bhakti. (Dualism devotion and love)