SOME CORE CONCEPTS OF THE GITANANDA YOGA TRADITION

2019

214 Swamiji’s Distinctive Perspective on Yoga mong Swamiji’s many contributions to global spirituality, some of the most important, and also the least understood, are his contributions to the discourse of yoga: that is, to the understanding of what, precisely, yoga is, its aim and purpose, and the methods that it involves. There are, of course, many interpretations of yoga, as well as many types of yoga. Indeed, the same thing can be said of yoga that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said of religion: ‘In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.’1 Similarly, there are as many yogas as there are individuals. The intent of this essay is not to claim that Swamiji’s approach to the nature of yoga is the only correct approach; nor, in claiming that his approach is distinctive; the intent is to state that this approach is entirely unique, and that important aspects of it are not also shared by other major thinkers on yoga. Many Paths to One Goal: Swami Vivekananda’s C...

International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2013

In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prominent Indian religious leaders such as Swami Vivekananda and Swami Sivananda developed systems of yoga based on Patañjali's Aṣṭāṅgayoga and called them Rājayoga. They have promoted the Yogasūtra as the most authoritative source on Rājayoga. In contrast to this, there are modern Indian systems of Rājayoga which have very little to do with Pātañjalayoga, such as the one taught globally by the Brahma Kumaris. It is generally accepted that Rājayoga refers to types of yoga which are based more on meditation than physical techniques such as postures (āsana), yet very little research has been done to explain why there are variations between modern systems of Rājayoga. Also, the term rājayoga (literally, ‘king-yoga’) implies superiority, usually, over Haṭhayoga, but this raises the question of whether there was ever a justifiable basis for this claim of superiority, which I address here through examining the history of Rājayoga.

World Yoga festival, 2019

Core concepts of Gitananda Yoga by Dr Ananda at World Yoga festival 2019

Numen, 2009

Short Essay prepared in 2013 for the Course Philosophy of Yoga dictated by the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies (OCHS).

Thank you for including me in this discussion. My comments will be taken from my doctoral thesis, Learning in Depth: A Case Study in Twin 5x5 Matrices of Consciousness (2013). I am sorry they are rather long. I am trying to offer and alternate way to think about this issue.

IJSC , 2019

In this review article author tried to clarify the concept of Raja Yoga which is described from Maharishi Patanjali, he is a well-known and great author of Patanjali Yoga Sutra, telling us about the raja yoga which is all about mental wellness or simply we can say its all about the deepening the stage of chitta. Maharishi Patanjali also talked about the Griefs, desire, action and the law of action. In the present scenario of the modern world everyone is caring about his/ her physical health, we can found a lot of men talking about physical health, but we cannot found a men who cares about his mental health, Maharishi Patanjali tell us about mental health and also he tells us about how to enhance the mental wellness in the form of Chitta Prasadanam, The term chitta Prasadanam tells us how to pacify the chitta, only after pacification of chitta one can able to meet his true self. So herewith I am reviewing about the mental wellness and also trying to elaborate, how maharishi Patanjali helps us to cope up with Modern scenario by what he said about the mental wellness.