{"id":778,"date":"2020-05-19T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2020-05-19T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:27:38","slug":"how-to-understand-the-term-a%e1%b9%85ga-in-the-context-of-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"How to understand the term a\u1e45ga in the context of yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">What is \u0905\u0919\u094d\u0917 \/ <em>a\u1e45ga<\/em> in <em>yoga<\/em>, is it a step or a section? On the one hand, we find following interpretations in the <em>Viveka\u00a0M\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">117. Thanks to the twelve\u00a0<em>pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101y\u0101mas \u2013<\/em>\u00a0<em>praty\u0101h\u0101ra<\/em> is achieved. Thanks to the twelve\u00a0<em>praty\u0101h\u0101ras \u2013<\/em>\u00a0good\u00a0<em>dh\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101<\/em> is attained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">118. Thanks to the twelve\u00a0<em>dh\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101s \u2013\u00a0dhy\u0101na<\/em> is known, and due to the twelve\u00a0<em>dhy\u0101nas<\/em>, <em>sam\u0101dhi<\/em> is achieved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On the other hand, we find quite a few texts where <em>a\u1e45gas<\/em> often go in a sequence that is not popular for most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=353\">https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=353<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Basically, the free order of <em>a\u1e45gas<\/em> is found either in <em>tantras<\/em> or in texts that have been influenced by <em>tantra<\/em>. These are partly <em>Pur\u0101\u1e47as<\/em>, as well as <em>N\u0101tha<\/em> texts. If we look at the meaning of the term \u2018<em>a\u1e45ga<\/em>\u2019 in different dictionaries, it means: \u2018a part\u2019, \u2018a division\u2019, \u2018relating to the base\u2019, \u2018anything inferior or secondary\u2019, \u2018supplement\u2019, \u2018contiguous\u2019. In <em>tantric<\/em> texts, methods are sometimes named as \u2018<em>up\u0101ya<\/em>\u2019, which also means \u2018a trick\u2019, \u2018a ruse\u2019. This allows us to understand that it is impossible, in practice, to put a technique higher than its main goals, which often causes the &#8220;modern <em>yoga<\/em>&#8220;. The &#8220;parts&#8221; can be compared with the organs of the body; we cannot say that we need a heart, but we do not need a brain or liver. We need an organism in which absolutely everything works simultaneously and harmoniously. In this regard,\u00a0<em>\u0101sanas<\/em> cannot exist separately from\u00a0<em>praty\u0101h\u0101ra<\/em>,\u00a0<em>pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101y\u0101ma<\/em>,\u00a0<em>dhy\u0101na<\/em> or\u00a0<em>sam\u0101dhi<\/em> (even if it is fragmentary). The <em>yoga<\/em> state and the <em>yoga<\/em> path are primary, while <em>a\u1e45gas<\/em> are secondary, but they all work on the main tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is \u0905\u0919\u094d\u0917 \/ a\u1e45ga in yoga, is it a step or a section? On the one hand, we find following interpretations in the Viveka\u00a0M\u0101rta\u1e47\u1e0da: 117. Thanks to the twelve\u00a0pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101y\u0101mas \u2013\u00a0praty\u0101h\u0101ra is achieved. Thanks to the twelve\u00a0praty\u0101h\u0101ras \u2013\u00a0good\u00a0dh\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101 is attained. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=778\">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":[213,25],"tags":[172,214,27,55,94,26],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agas","category-yoga-agas","tag-asanas","tag-dhyana","tag-praayama","tag-pratyahara","tag-samadhi","tag-yoga-agas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}