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Developed in India, Yoga is a spiritual practice that has been evolving
for the last 5,000 years or so. The original Yogis were reacting, in
part, to India's ancient Vedic religion, which emphasized rituals. The
Yogis wanted a direct spiritual experience -- one on one -- not symbolic
ritual. So they developed Yoga.
Yoga means "union" in Sanskrit, the classical language of India.
According to the yogis, true happiness, liberation and enlightenment
comes from union with the divine consciousness known as Brahman, or with
Atman, the transcendent Self. The various yoga practices are a
methodology for reaching that goal.
There is a type of Yoga, called
Agni Yoga, which translates as “to bring your Inner Fire of
Spiritual Electricity into expression through the seven qualities of: 1)
harmony with the highest principles 2) concentration 3) unity 4)
expression of essence 5) fusion 6) purification and 7) synthesis.” 1.
Through all of this, we move to oneness.
1: Talks on Agni, H. (Torkom)
Saraydarian, Aquarian Educational Group, 1987, p. 58 |