The Bhakti-Yoga Handbook
The Bhakti-Yoga Handbook

Author: Stephen Knapp

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781490302287

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The Bhakti-yoga Handbook A Guide for Beginning the Essentials of Devotional Yoga This book is a guide for anyone who wants to begin the practice of bhakti-yoga in a practical and effective way. This supplies the information, the principles, the regular activities or sadhana, and how to have the right attitude in applying ourselves to attain success on the path of bhakti-yoga, which is uniting with God through love and devotion. This outlines a general schedule for our daily spiritual activities and a typical morning program as found in most Krishna temples that are centered around devotional yoga. In this way, you will find the explanations on how to begin our day and set our mind, what meditations to do, which spiritual texts are best to study, and how we can make most everything we do as part of bhakti-yoga. All of these can be adjusted in a way that can be practiced and applied by anyone by anyone regardless of whether you are in a temple ashrama or in your own home or apartment. Such topics include: The secret of bhakti-yoga and its potency in this day and age, The essential morning practice, the best time for meditation, The standard songs and mantras that we can use, as applied in most Krishna temples, Understanding the basics of the Vedic spiritual philosophy, such as karma, reincarnation, the Vedic description of the soul, etc., How Vedic culture is still as relevant today as ever, Who is Sri Krishna, How to chant the Hare Krishna mantra, Standards for temple etiquette, The nine processes of bhakti-yoga, a variety of activities from which anyone can utilize, How to make our career a part of the yoga process, How to turn our cooking into bhakti-yoga, How to set up a home altar or temple room, depending on what standard you wish to establish, How to take care of deities in our home, if we have Them, How to perform the basic ceremonies like arati, How to take care of the Tulasi plant if you have one, And the spiritual results you can expect to attain through this yoga. All of the basics and effective applications to get started and continue with your practice of bhakti-yoga is supplied so you can progress in a steady way, from beginner to advanced.

The Yoga Handbook
The Yoga Handbook

Author: Sumukhi Finney

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1435853598

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Presents an introduction to the principles of Hatha yoga and provides explanations and illustrations of the physical postures and relaxation and breathing exercises, and an introduction to meditation.

Bhakti-Yoga
Bhakti-Yoga

Author: Swami Vivekananda

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-01

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 9359393401

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Bhakti-Yoga is a real, honest search for the Lord that begins, continues, and ends with love. We are free forever because of one crazy moment of crazy love for God. This love can't be reduced to anything on earth, because this love won't come as long as people want things on earth. Bhakti is better than both karma and yoga because karma and yoga are supposed to get you somewhere, but Bhakti is its own goal, its own means, and its own end. Swami Vivekananda talked about Bhakti-Yoga like a spiritual poet, describing it as a symphony of the soul and a dance of devotion in which the seeker gives in to their overwhelming love for the Divine. He stressed that this path was not limited to any one religion. Instead, it was a universal language of the heart that gave people a direct link to the divine part of themselves and the world around them.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga
The Eight Limbs of Yoga

Author: Stuart Ray Sarbacker

Publisher: North Point Press

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0865477698

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A clear, concise guidebook to the essentials of yogic thought and practice Many people think yoga simply means postures and breathing. Not true. The intention of this short guide is practical and straightforward: to say what yoga really is and to apply its principles to everyday life. It leads us through the eight-limbed system, a coherent framework that has been handed down and elaborated upon for thousands of years and consists of five "outer limbs," which pertain to our experience of the social world and the operation of our senses, and three "inner limbs," which focus on the mind. Stuart Ray Sarbacker and Kevin Kimple present the eight-limbed system as something that can be turned to again and again to deepen and expand understanding and practice. As an introduction and overview to the essence of yoga, The Eight Limbs of Yoga is unparalleled for clarity, usefulness, and concision.

Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga

Author: Shakti Parwah Kaur Khalsa

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-08-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0399524207

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The practice of Kundalini yoga aims to unlock and awaken the radiant transformative energy that exists within every person. This book is the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of a Kundalini practice. Taught for thousands of years and brought to the West by Yogi Bhajan, Kundalini is a powerful mind-body style of yoga. When practiced regularly, Kundalini yoga can strengthen the nervous system, balance the glandular system, and harness the energy of the mind, emotions, and body, and is surprisingly simple to learn. While general yoga technique focuses on exercise postures and breathing, Kundalini takes the process a step further by integrating yoga into everyday life activities. This definitive guide, fully illustrated with photographs, is an accessible introduction to the ancient practice of Kundalini yoga, with information on poses and positions, diet and lifestyle, breathing and stretching techniques, chanting and meditation exercises, and general guidelines that can help anyone—beginner or advanced—gain the greatest benefit from the practice of yoga.

Yogasana
Yogasana

Author: Yogrishi Ph.D. Vishvketu

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 2598

ISBN-13:

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Filled with chakra activation charts, images and descriptions of over eight hundred poses, and Sanskrit translation guides, this comprehensive encyclopedia makes the spirituality, practice, and language of yoga more accessible than ever before. Packed with over eight hundred individual poses performed by renowned practitioner Yogrishi Vishvketu, Yogasana: The Encyclopedia of Yoga Poses is the most comprehensive yoga asana guide to date. With poses adapted to every skill level, the encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for both the yoga novice and the studio owner. Nearly a millennium ago, the hatha yoga tradition included over seven hundred thousand yoga poses. Today, only a fraction of those are known. Yogi Vishvketu, a lifelong yoga devotee, bridges that gap by connecting modern poses to their ancient roots with an intuitive naming system that fuses past with present. Thorough translation charts—which provide pose names in Sanskrit script along with transliterations in Sanskrit and English—help practitioners gain an understanding of the relationship between the name and the spiritual significance of each pose. The energetic essence of each asana is unveiled through a detailed chakra chart and graphic indicators depicting the chakras activated by that pose. With poses organized into a logical sequence with roots in the traditional Himalayan system and enhanced by Yogi Vishvketu’s decades of practice, this yoga compendium showcases the asanas, the language, and the spiritual path of yoga together in a single, all-inclusive volume.

The Power of BHAGAVAD-GITA
The Power of BHAGAVAD-GITA

Author: Stephen Knapp

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-07

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781075257223

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The Bhagavad-gita is a classic of Indian spiritual literature, and has remained an important book for thousands of years. Many western poets and philosophers have been influenced by its deep insights and its timeless wisdom. Many of the great spiritual teachers of India have also written commentaries on it. It is considered the core of some of the deepest levels of spiritual knowledge known to humanity. So, this is a very powerful book. This introduction, using numerous verses, shows many of the reasons why it has kept its popularity, and how many of its topics and the guidance that we find within it can easily be applied today, not only for our spiritual development, but for solving common everyday problems as well. Everyone can benefit from it. Some of the topics within this present volume include: The Bhagavad-gita and Principles for Good Management and Leadership; Good Work Ethics; Dealing with Stress; How to Attain Peace of Mind; Heightening Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem; Dealing with Sorrow and Death; Attaining Fearlessness; As a Psychological Guide; Meditation According to Bhagavad-gita; The Supreme Yoga; Bhagavad-gita as a Key to Spiritual Enlightenment; Bhagavad-gita and Establishing World Peace; Thirty-one Days to Liberation on the Vedic Path based on Bhagavad-gita; The Gita's Ultimate Purpose; What should be your next step; and much more. This book is a key to opening the possibilities in the ways the Bhagavad-gita can be of assistance to us and lead us to a higher understanding of who we are and the purpose of life.

Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
Essence of the Bhagavad Gita

Author: Eknath Easwaran

Publisher: Nilgiri Press

Published: 2011-12-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1586380680

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In this companion to his best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran explores the essential themes of this much-loved Indian scripture. Placing the Gita in a modern context, Easwaran shows how this classic text sheds light on the nature of reality, the illusion of separateness, the search for identity, and the meaning of yoga. The key message of the Gita is how to resolve our conflicts and live in harmony with the deep unity of life, through the principles of yoga and the practice of meditation. Easwaran grew up in the Hindu tradition and learned Sanskrit from an early age. A foremost translator and interpreter of the Gita, he taught classes on it for forty years, while living out the principles of the Gita in the midst of a busy family and community life. In the Gita, Sri Krishna, the Lord, doesn’t tell the warrior prince Arjuna what to do: he shows Arjuna his choices and then leaves it to Arjuna to decide. Easwaran, too, shows us clearly how these teachings still apply to us – and how, like Arjuna, we must take courage and act wisely if we want our world to thrive.

The Yoga Handbook
The Yoga Handbook

Author: Neelanjana Bharadwaj

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1796008176

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‘The Yoga Buzz’, a short weekly column in, the popular paper ‘Bahrain this Week, is a result of the author’s passion for the Science of Yoga and love of writing. The Yoga Handbook is an assimilation of some of her writings over the last five years. It has been conceptualized as ‘an easy read’ which gives relevant yet compact knowledge of Yoga. The content created in the book is with the aim of going through it as a page a or two a day, almost like ‘thoughts for the day.’ Apart from the philosophy and history of Yoga it covers about 60 cultural asanas, the essential breathing and cleansing techniques with an introduction to mudras, bandhas, shad chakras, meditation and the role of a yogic diet and its importance on one’s physical and mental health. There is no replacement for getting guidance from a competent teacher as one gets initiated into Yogic practices. This manuscript provides general information and techniques for expanding one’s knowledge and evolution for personal growth. Neelanjana Bharadwaj

Bhakti
Bhakti

Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Published:

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9171495908

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What we call love in the material world is all too temporary, but in the kingdom of God the profound loving exchanges Lord Krishna enjoys with His dearest devotees are eternal. Bhakti-yoga teaches us how to enter into that realm of eternal love.