[shriadishakti] Hi (What about BKS Iyenger and his Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali?)

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Hi Madhurima,

 

I think i will have to differ with you on this. I dont

think you can tell the vibrations of a book so easily.

My hands do turn warm sometimes even hot, when i pick

up certain books. However, im not too sure that really

means that the content is anti-god/mataji. But then

again, if you are experiencing it, then maybe I am

wrong.

 

Jagbir, you might also want to look at this site.

http://www.anandamarga.org/spiprac.htm

I went through it a long time ago when i was on a

reading spree. You might find it quite interesting.

Here again, nobody is making claims about being god.

 

 

Me

p.s. Apparently even Mahatama Gandhi was initiated

into Kriya Yoga. So says the book.

 

 

--- jagbir singh <adishakti_org wrote:

> shriadishakti , Madhurima M

> <marycheva>

> wrote:

> > Dear Forum,

> > I think, it is high time as sahaja yogis we learnt

> to judge the

> > book on vibrations. When you are reading

> something, immediately

> > your kundalini will tell you. I had read this book

> before comming

> > to Sahaja and frankly it could give me nothing,

> compared to what

> > Sahaja Yoga has given to me.

> > Jai Shri Mataji

> > Madhurima.

> >

>

> Dear Madhurima,

>

> While still waiting for Balwinder to repost his

> reply which he

> accidently sent to me only (instead of the whole

> group), i would like

> to understand about books written by other gurus.

>

> i admit that, compared to the knowledge given by

> Shri Mataji, there

> is no guru who can come a close second to the depth

> and width of Shri

> Mataji's discourses over the decades. And when it

> comes to Self-

> realization, which is only possible through

> kundalini awakening,

> there is just no guru available.

>

> i use a lot of quotes from other gurus and authors.

> Thus Balwinder's

> post is relevant to what is being discussed, and we

> will wait. In the

> meantime i just want to know what you think of BKS

> Iyengar as i

> bought and read his " Light on the Yoga Sutras of

> Patanjali " ? What do

> the vibrations say about this book? Is he a false

> guru?

>

> Given below is an extract regarding BKS Iyenger. You

> will notice that

> unlike Amma or Sai Baba he claims no bhagwanship.

>

>

> jagbir

>

>

> NOTE: B.K.S. Iyengar is one of the foremost teachers

> of Yoga in the

> world and has been practicing and teaching for over

> sixty years.

> Millions of students now follow his method and there

> are Iyengar yoga

> centres all over the world. He has written many

> books on yogic

> practice and its philosophy including " Light on

> Yoga, " " Light on

> Pranayama, " " Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali "

> and more.

>

> Mr. Iyengar was born in 1918 into a large poor

> family in the village

> of Bellur in Karnataka state in India under very

> difficult

> circumstances. His mother gave birth to him during

> an influenza

> epidemic leaving him sickly and weak and his father

> died when he was

> only 9 years old. As a result he went to live with

> his brother in

> Bangalore. His childhood was further marked by a

> variety of serious

> illnesses including malaria, tuberculosis and

> typhoid together with

> malnutrition.

>

> At the age of 15 Mr Iyengar was invited to Mysore to

> stay with his

> eldest sister by her husband, the scholar and yogi

> Sri T.

> Krishnamacharya, who was visiting. Krishnamacharya

> ran a yoga school

> in the palace of his patron, the Raja of Mysore,

> where Mr Iyengar

> eventually received some basic instruction in asana

> practice to

> improve his health. His guru however, was an erratic

> and terrifying

> personality who drove him hard and so at first Mr

> Iyengar had to

> struggle from day to day. This diligence in practice

> gradually paid

> off as he mastered some of the postures and improved

> his health.

>

> Then in 1937 Mr Iyengar was asked by his Guru to go

> to Pune to teach

> yoga. In Pune life was still very difficult as he

> was a stranger

> there with weak language skills, speaking only a

> little English and

> the local language Marathi. As he had left school

> before he could

> complete his examinations and had no skills, he was

> left with little

> choice but to continue to make his living through

> teaching yoga.

> Moreover as he felt he had little experience or

> theoretical

> knowledge, he decided to practice with determination

> and learn by

> trial and error. In the beginning his students were

> better than him

> so he would dedicate many hours a day to practice,

> sometimes

> surviving for days on only water and perhaps some

> bread or rice. This

> was also a difficult time in his yoga and he would

> suffer great pains

> through incorrect technique, often having to place

> heavy weights on

> his body to relieve the aches. However through

> determination and a

> refusal to give up he gradually began to understand

> the techniques of

> each posture and their effects. The number of his

> students also began

> to increase, though financially times were still

> incredibly hard as

> yoga was not greatly respected or understood, even

> in India.

>

> Then In 1943, his brothers arranged his marriage to

> Ramamani. Mr

> Iyengar had avoided marriage for some time as he

> felt he could not

> support a family, but on meeting her consented.

> Initially life

> continued to be very hard for them but bit by bit

> they worked their

> way out of poverty. They agreed that she would take

> care of their

> family while he would provide the income. Strangely

> it also fell upon

> her to introduce the subject of yoga to her children

> for some time.

>

> Gradually Mr Iyengar's recognition as a yoga teacher

> grew but it was

> a meeting with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin in 1952

> which led to Mr

> Iyengar's eventual international recognition. It was

> Yehudi Menuhin

> who arranged for Mr Iyengar to teach abroad in

> London, Switzerland,

> Paris and elsewhere and so meet people from all over

> the world and

> from all walks of life.

>

> Events continued to develop and grow, leading up to

> the publication

> of Light on Yoga in 1966 after many years of

> development. This book

> turned out to be an international best seller which

> continues to be

> reprinted in several languages all over the world

> and succeeded in

> making Yoga truly universal. This was later followed

> by titles

> covering Pranayama and various aspects of Yoga

> philosophy. His latest

> work " Yoga: The path to Holistic Health " was

> published in 2001.

>

> Finally in 1975 Mr Iyengar was able to open the

> Ramamani Iyengar

> Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, in memory of his

> recently departed

> wife, where he still resides and teaches. By this

> time Mr Iyengar's

> eldest daughter, Geeta and son Prashant had also

> started teaching

> yoga under his guidance.

>

> In 1984 Mr Iyengar officially retired from teaching

> though he

> continues to take medical classes and teaches at

> special events as

> well as being fully active in promoting yoga world

> wide and being

> involved in the institute and its charitable

> foundation. Though

> physically quite capable of continuing, he felt it

> was time to " let

>

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