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Shining Skull<br><br>You are relatively to new to

the Ashtanga Vinyasa version of Hatha Yoga,

apparently have little or no familiarity with other

approaches, and are evidently even newer to Raja Yoga and

Advaita Vedanta.<br><br>And yet you feel free to express

half-formed and ill-considered opinions and viewpoints on a

wide variety of yoga-related topics.<br><br>May we

assume that your quote from the Yoga Mala indicates that

you have recognized your current short-comings and

intend to keep your own counsel on many of the topics

that appear on this message board and post much less

frequently.<br><br>omprem

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""May we assume that your quote from the Yoga

Mala indicates that you have recognized your current

short-comings and intend to keep your own counsel on many of

the topics that appear on this message board and post

much less frequently.""<br><br>LOL.<br>Good one OM.

Oh. You were serious.

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shiny<br><br><< I did Iyengar Yoga for

three years.>><br><br>Sorry, three years still

makes you a relative new-comer.<br><br><<I think

that in Astanga Yoga it's PRACTICE what matters, not

theory. >><br><br>You still don't get it. In

Ashtanga Yoga, aka Raja Yoga, the physical stuff is only

1/4 of the practice. The idea is to practice in the

other 3/4 as well.<br><br>Look up the term "Svadhyaya"

(p101-2, Desikachar's The Heart of Yoga) <br><br>This is

what Desikachar has to say about Raja Yoga: "It [Yoga]

was systematized as a special darsana by the great

Indian saga Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra. Althought this

work was followed by many other important texts on

yoga, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is certainly the most

significant." (p5, Heart of Yoga)<br><br>And "To explain yoga I

shall refer to the ideas expressed in Patanjali's Yoga

Sutra, the guide to yoga practice that I prefer to any

other text on yoga." (p9 Heart of Yoga)<br><br>Total

emphasis on asana and selected pranayama is no longer

Ashtanga Yoga, it is an ego-based exercise program. Care

to start branching out? Get a copy of Patanjali's

Raja Yoga Sutras and start

reading.<br><br>omprem<br><br>P.S. The kleshas are featured prominently in Heart

of

Yoga

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Omprem, how tiresome you are.<br><br>Nothing

quite so pathetic as a middle-aged man so desperate to

be thought wise that he has to manufacture or

regurgitate the wisdom of others.<br><br>Cheers,<br>DMcG

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