Health and happiness in an age of stress

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The great age of yoga ,ignorance of its true nature and the symolsitic obscurity of much of the writing on the subject give many westerns.moving as they do in a world of constant unrest ,the impression that the  system holds nothing for them and is all rather remote, vague and impractical in this they make a grave attainging health and happiness in an age of stress that is availbale .we should not support those pessimists who believe that civilisation should be destoryed and that we should return to the levels of human development achieved by the cave-man.

The harnessing of the forces of nature ,such as electricity and atomic energy ,to allow us of fly faster than sound and explore space ,these are wonderful achievements,triumphs  for man in his conquest of the universe, but sometimes he is inclined to forget that he he is not a machine ,but a living being .in the west ,millions live at such a hectic pace that they are commitiing slow suicide .

civilisation imposes pressures and strain unknow to our grand parents .man can only  successfully meet this challenge by paying  increasing attention to his physical and mental well-being .yoga provides an answer to the problem  of stress.the postures make muscles firmer and better shaped.by yoga one mind becomes more tranquil and temperament more placid.one gets control over the emotions.

Yoga paths 

union is the  goal of yoga , there are many paths its attainmant .following are the main six paths of yoga:
  • Hatha yoga     -  union by bodily contol ;
  • Raja yoga       -  union by mental control;
  • Jnana yoga     -  union by knowledge;
  • Bhakti yoga    -  union by devotion;
  • Karma yoga    -  union by action;
  • Mantra yoga   - union by sound.




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