{"id":743,"date":"2020-03-19T10:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2020-03-24T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:23:22","slug":"where-does-this-figure-of-84-asanas-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Where does the number of 84 \u0101sanas come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of \u200b\u200b84\u00a0<em>\u0101sanas<\/em>, which is often found in <em>yoga<\/em> texts, is based on the worship of 84\u00a0<em>n\u0101tha<\/em>&#8211;<em>yogis<\/em>. Each of these 84\u00a0<em>n\u0101thas<\/em> is responsible for the evolution of one lakh of living beings (100,000). When you follow the <em>yoga<\/em> path, you develop the psychophysical, spiritual purity\u00a0in yourself, that you radiate into space. By doing your practice you help not only yourself, but also your close ones. Souls reincarnate in different forms until they become perfect <em>yogis<\/em>, the symbolism of 84\u00a0<em>\u0101sanas<\/em> is based on this principle. The most important thing here is to understand that\u00a0<em>\u0101sana<\/em>\u00a0is not just a physical process, but also a psychophysical one. The purpose of many\u00a0<em>\u0101sanas<\/em> is to be able to stay stable in the position of <em>siddha<\/em> (<em>siddh\u0101sana<\/em>). Generally, it is the ability to stay in a meditative posture for three hours, to hold it easily, so that you can meditate, remaining in the position, on something sublime and pure in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of \u200b\u200b84\u00a0\u0101sanas, which is often found in yoga texts, is based on the worship of 84\u00a0n\u0101tha&#8211;yogis. Each of these 84\u00a0n\u0101thas is responsible for the evolution of one lakh of living beings (100,000). When you follow the yoga path, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=743\">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":[171,83],"tags":[78,172,41,31],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asana","category-yoga","tag-asana","tag-asanas","tag-natha","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}