ASANA – ACCORDING TO SAGE PATANJALI

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• ASANA ACCORDING TO SAGE PATANJALI

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• Patanjali describes asana as not just bodily
  posture which integrates mind and physical body
  steadiness with a pleasant feeling when it is
  performed. They recommend that asana means to
  make mind to sit where body is.
• The basic science of yoga asana is to equip a
  person for meditation.

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• Most of us are busy in our lives in which
  everything happens because of a concentrated
  effort to make it happen!
• We must do something if anything is to happen.
  Perfecting posture comes from Constant practice.
  Surely we have to put some effort into training
  the body to sit straight and be aligned.

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• This conscious effort to release any form of
  effort can be felt experientially, internally.
  You can know for yourself that this really is a
  valid, useful, and key principle in developing a
  sitting posture for meditation.
• MUST READ Sutra 2.46 sthira-sukham-asanam