Tradition and the concept of Yoga
Yoga originated in India. In India, the yoga not just as one of six major philosophical systems, and learning about reality (Darshana), but also as a tool for spiritual development. It helps to cleanse the consciousness and die, while the direction is an exercise that leads to self-realization.
Originally, the spiritual way
Yoga was originally at the core of a complex religious system that the West is called Hinduism. However, since, before about 2,000 years ago, the sage Patanjali (Patanjali) has developed a system of Yoga, the "classical" Yoga is a big part, aside from its religious meaning and it is now, at least in India, is not related to religion. However, in essence, is the spiritual aspect of Yoga, as it was written by Patanjali, connected to all the religions of India and the West. That's why in recent desetleća could appear even Christian Yoga colored. No matter what, for Yoga goes to the latter, in its pure, classical, form a non-religious, universal spirituality. Yoga as psihiloška science is as neutral as well as physics, or psychotherapy. On its path of knowledge may enter a believer, just as much an atheist or skeptičar.
Hata-Yoga, which is popular in the West and has many supporters, was originally woven in a sacred religious paintings called Shaivism. In India it is considered that this path of Yoga proclaimed god Shiva, and he suggests methods by which the student can become one with God. Since only a small number of students consciously religious views Hata-yoga, this aspect of the modern exercise in large part lost.
Yoga means "to take matters into their own hands"
The word Yoga leads to the origin of the Indo-Germanic root "yuj". "Yuj" means to align and collect two or more horses in front of the (war-) coaches, but also a means "to connect to, curb, or put in a tandem ride," earlier as a symbol for yoga pictures carts were widespread. It is often pointed out the similarity nemačke words "Joch-team" with French "joug" Spanish "Yugo" and the Latin word "iugum".
Jean Varenne, the famous French Indologist, the preferred translation of which means "chariot". The reason for this becomes clear when you know the historical background of the term.
Curb illegal pastuvljevih five senses
From 1500 years before Christ, the greatest part of India won Indoarijevci that their conquest and conquest realized through carriages were pulled by horses. That these horses chiefs represented the greatest wealth, and their prestige depended for the most part, just the number and strength of their stallions. It took the power and input to zauzdaju horses and harness the vehicle.
In addition to input the management of war chariots, fencing and shooting a bow and arrows, the invaders have brought about a certain spiritual discipline, which they called Yoga. It contained a method that can curb the five senses of wild stallions, and that they harnesses in front of a carriage, which is symbolically denoted the body. Consciousness is represented as a driver that determines the direction in which the body and senses to be moving.
From this it becomes clear that the current Indolozima closer to the term "yoga" translates as a coach, as "Joch-team", however, more associated with the crops of enslaved people.
However, from the earliest period, in addition to this historical significance, the concept of Yoga identified with all the techniques of concentration, osvešćivanja internal content and connect with something higher, usually with something divine.
A long history
In India, Yoga is known for over 3,500 years - at least this period can be reliably potkrepiti through reliable sources. Always a recurring hints that Yoga is much older, but the sources that bore witness in favor of this are uncertain, can only be assumed that the techniques were similar to Yogi primenjivane in Indian culture (early Stone Age) and in the shamanic techniques of the Indian subcontinent . If this were so, then it is a great likelihood that these early lines so later merged with the resulting classical Yoga, that at the present time impossible to extract from it.
Early Beginnings - Yoga as a magic ritual
Ancient texts called the Vedas, however, suggest that the early beginnings of Yoga were a lot of procedures that are related to the offering of the victims, as well as techniques for learning about the ecstatic state. Yoga has been used to with intense concentration on certain gods experiencing vision or ecstatic state, which are aimed to guarantee the success of magical rituals, like for example making sacrifices or rituals with fire.
Over time, these rituals and sacrifices became more luxurious and more complicated. If you had previously sacrificed a horse, now is the Vedic gods sacrificed to 1000 horses. Adequately how the increased efforts of Yoga so that they occur fakirs or extreme ascetic - and both are even today often associated with yoga.
Meditation as a path to enlightenment
Such developments produced the emergence of a completely opposite movements: the more the outer zamenjivana victim inside, and instead of rice, flowers and animals are now, for instance, symbolically sacrificed breath.
Instead of ascetic appeared meditation as a way of looking at man's essential being and understanding in which it is related to the cosmic being.
These various reflections and speculations are approximately 800 years before Christ witnessed the emergence of their defeat by the Upanishads. In this collection of articles from the conversations between teachers and students think about the existential issues of humanity. Upanishads have developed a teaching that God and his creation are identical, so that all are one. As God is contained in everything, and everything contained in God, external sacrifices and rituals have become redundant. Instead now it is about how you perceive yourself in the Self (Atman), the divine essence, that what is immortal, eternal and the Non-susceptible to any influence.
During that period he made plays on the concept of rebirth and personal fortune, which runs through all of rebirth, the concept svadharma (a task that is here now and be present in the world) and karma (the law of cause and consequence).
Road to the immediate religious experience
For the first time in India, Yoga has become popular. While earlier mainly practicing ascetic who is at odds with svetovnog and seekers, is now significantly increased its influence in those social castes that were not allowed to deal with "official" religion, ie Hinduism.
People from lower castes, outcasts, which are included the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent, as well as women (!) Was not allowed access to the rituals and religious knowledge, but it was the exclusive privilege of men of the first three upper castes. Training in the exercise of religious practices such as sacrifice and prayer, were determined by premoćnog clergy, which is managed temples as it is a small business. Brahmins are expensive charging their knowledge on how to get in touch with God and time have turned religion into something that belongs to the wealthy classes.
In contrast the techniques of Yoga theory offered everyone a chance to come to an immediate religious experience, because it is now possible to find a god in itself. She referred to the methods by which it was possible to find access to God, to reach self-awareness, and positively affect their own destiny. So people for their liberation from the "endless chain of rebirth" were no longer sent to the priests. Each was possible to take sostvenu fate into their own hands and take responsibility for your life here and now. However, in practice it seems that the way was still open only for those few who were able to read these texts.
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