Browsing the "Yoga" Category

Krishna Assures Arjuna that he is the greatest yogi

November 22nd, 2023 | by Madhudvisa dasa

A transcendentalist does not meet with destruction either in this world or in the spiritual world; one who does good, My friend, is never overcome by evil

Arjuna could not practice Meditational Yoga

November 10th, 2023 | by Madhudvisa dasa

Yoga is impractical me, for the mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and strong, O Krishna, and to subdue it is more difficult than controlling the wind

How I Found A Real Yoga Teacher

August 26th, 2023 | by

He was a sannyasi hatha-yoga teacher and had been running a yoga center for thirteen years in New York City then he left it all for Krishna consciousness

Yoga and Meditation on the Self Within

July 11th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Can meditation solve everyday problems? Is there life after death? Can drugs help us achieve self-realization? Srila Prabhupada discusses with a reporter

My View on Hatha-Yoga and Raja-Yoga

May 29th, 2023 | by

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

Krishna Consciousness–The Yoga for the Modern Age

April 26th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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

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How One Should Perform Yoga–MP3 Audio

February 4th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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 perform there

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What Happens to a Fallen Yogi or Devotee? (MP3 Audo)

December 21st, 2022 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Failure is the pillar of success, so especially in spiritual life. Even one fails in completing his spiritual course, still, there is no loss on his part

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Yogis Behaving Badly

December 17th, 2022 | by

You need inner peace. You fly to Los Angeles yoga capital of America. Power trips, cutthroat competition and sex scandals? The yoga industry is dog-eat-dog.

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These People are Practicing Yoga?

November 20th, 2022 | by

You'd probably never think this picture shows people practicing yoga. But chanting the names of God is actually the supreme form of yoga

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Yoga and the Master of Yoga

November 14th, 2022 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Yoga means the connecting link between the soul and the Supersoul, or the Supreme and the minute living creatures.

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Yoga and the Master of Yoga

November 3rd, 2022 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The preliminary processes of yoga system is to control the senses but none of them practice that, generally they are attracted by the bodily exercises only

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Our Real Life is Krishna Consciousness

September 3rd, 2022 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Chanting Hare Krishna puts an end to the false conception of self and engages the soul in his eternal, blissful activities in the loving service of God

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Just what is Samadhi?

July 15th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa

The stage of perfection is called trance, or samadhi, when one's mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga

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Krishna consciousness is Yoga in Action

July 14th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa

When the yogi disciplines his mental activities and becomes situated in Transcendence--devoid of all material desires--he is said to have attained yoga.

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The Real Goal of Yoga

July 9th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa

Yoga is not meant for attaining any kind of material benefit or siddhi. It is not for improving one's health and not even to make the mind peaceful.

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Meditational Yoga — The Prerequisites

July 7th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa

To practice yoga one should go to a sacred place and lay kusa-grass covered with deerskin on the ground. The seat should neither be too high nor too low

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Living Alone in a Secluded Place?

July 5th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa

Not many of us can go and live in the Himalayas or on the banks of the Ganges and even these places are no longer as sanctified as they once were.

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Yoga For The New Century

June 11th, 2022 | by Gadadhara das

In order to fully understand what yoga really is let’s look into the ancient Vedas where the true science of yoga is taught. “Veda” means knowledge

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The importance of Hearing about Krishna

January 2nd, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa

Different types of yoga are steppingstones on the path of Krishna consciousness. One who takes directly to Krishna consciousness knows about yoga in full