His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder-Acharya

Krishna Consciousness–The Yoga for the Modern Age

February 25, 2010 by srila-prabhupada  
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Krishna Consciousness–The Yoga for the Modern Age


Nowadays, we find yoga being taught in numerous courses and touted in mass-market books as a means to achieve health, lose weight, develop mental powers over others, achieve success in making money, or increase sexual potency. But real yoga is something entirely different.   ...Read More

How One Should Perform Yoga–MP3 Audio Bhagavad Gita Class 6.11-21

December 13, 2009 by srila-prabhupada  
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How One Should Perform Yoga–MP3 Audio Bhagavad Gita Class 6.11-21


In India there are some selected places, very sacred place, and the yogis, generally, they go there and sit there alone in a sacred place and as prescribed in the Bhagavad-gita and perform there. Yoga-asana cannot be executed in a public place…   ...Read More

Yogis Behaving Badly

October 1, 2009 by paul-keegan  
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For millennia, the intricate techniques of yoga were passed down from teacher to student in a sacred exchange. But today, in the booming yoga industry, it’s dog-eat-dog. You can’t take it anymore. The greed, corruption, and selfishness of the business world have broken your spirit. You need inner peace. Everyone’s walking around with a yoga mat these days, so you fly to Los Angeles, yoga capital of America, hoping for a   ...Read More

These People are Practicing Yoga?

August 7, 2009 by back-to-godhead-magazine  
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These People are Practicing Yoga?


Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare   ...Read More

Yoga and the Master of Yoga

August 1, 2009 by srila-prabhupada  
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Yoga means the connecting link between the soul and the Supersoul, or the Supreme and the minute living creatures. Lord Sri Krsna is that Supreme, the Personality of Godhead. Being, therefore, the ultimate object of yoga, Krsna’s name is yogesvara, the master of yoga.   ...Read More

Yoga and the Master of Yoga

July 25, 2009 by srila-prabhupada  
Filed under Letters, Yoga


I can challenge all these so-called yoga societies in the western countries that they are not standard in terms of Vedic yoga system. The preliminary processes of yoga system is to control the senses… But none of them practice like that, generally they are attracted by the bodily exercises only, haphazardly.   ...Read More

Our Real Life

April 7, 2009 by srila-prabhupada  
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Our Real Life


“Why am I suffering?” This is special reasoning. The animals are suffering, but they do not know how to remedy the suffering. But human beings are making scientific advancement and philosophical advancement, cultural advancement, religious advancement- progress in so many lines- because they want to be happy. “Where is the point of happiness?” This reasoning power is especially given to the human being.   ...Read More

How I Found A Real Yoga Teacher

December 26, 2008 by amala-bhakta-dasa  
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How I Found A Real Yoga Teacher


The path.from the hatha-yoga ashram to the Radha-Krsna temple is a well-worn one. Many people who are now Hare Krishna devotees had in the past performed various stretchings, contortions, breathing exercises, headstands, and silent meditations before they learned of the higher yoga of Krsna consciousness.   ...Read More

Meditation and The Self Within

December 11, 2008 by srila-prabhupada  
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Meditation and The Self Within


Can meditation solve our everyday problems? Is there life after death? Can drugs help us achieve self-realization? During a visit to South Africa, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada discussed these questions with Bill Faill, a reporter for the Durban Natal Mercury.   ...Read More

My View on Raja-Yoga

October 19, 2008 by nikhil-navare  
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My View on Raja-Yoga


I am surprised at the condemnation of other methods of Yoga, especially Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. Are these methods not as divine as BHAKTI Yoga?…   ...Read More

Meditation, Yoga, Karma and Reincarnation Explained

November 30, 1999 by admin  
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Meditation, Yoga, Karma and Reincarnation Explained


The Indian Vedic literature clearly describes the science of meditation, yoga, karma and reincarnation. This page puts it all into plain English.   ...Read More