{"id":622,"date":"2019-08-31T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2019-08-31T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T17:11:13","slug":"yoga-is-the-highest-aim-of-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Yoga is the highest aim of a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I always proceed from the fact that <em>yoga<\/em>, in its most essential form, is the prerogative of very few individuals. We can slowly go to it, this also includes our constant seeks and researches, but not everyone in this life reaches the point. <em>Vy\u0101sa<\/em>, commenting on <em>Pat\u0101\u00f1jali<\/em>, gives such a definition of <em>yoga<\/em> <span class=\"s1\">\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0903<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">\u0938\u092e\u093e\u0927\u093f\u0903<\/span>\u00a0 <em>yoga\u1e25 sam\u0101dhi\u1e25<\/em> &#8211; <em>&#8220;Yoga is sam\u0101dhi&#8221;<\/em>. We also find a great deal in the texts of the <em>N\u0101thas<\/em> and\u00a0the most essential elements from <em>yoga<\/em> in diverse <em>Tantras<\/em>. But, we know that <em>tantric<\/em> practices have traditionally been largely kept in secret. So, what should be the attitude to <em>yogic<\/em>\u00a0<em>s\u0101dhan\u0101<\/em>, if it is the essence of <em>tantric<\/em> <em>s\u0101dhan\u0101<\/em>? If you look at ancient <em>yoga<\/em> texts, secrecy is often mentioned there. The question is, what part of the <em>yogic<\/em> tradition and practice should be open and for whom, and which is closed? This is a very slippery moment, each <em>guru<\/em>, in one case or another, himself defines this boundary. With whom, when and what boundaries should be, and with whom should they not be at all, depends on each specific situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always proceed from the fact that yoga, in its most essential form, is the prerogative of very few individuals. We can slowly go to it, this also includes our constant seeks and researches, but not everyone in this life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,19],"tags":[94,31,96,95],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga","category-yogic-practice","tag-samadhi","tag-yoga","tag-yoga-aim","tag-yoga-goal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}