Healing Yoga (Integrating the Chakras)
author: Ambikananda Saraswati
edition: 2002, B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd
pages: 144
ISBN-10: 8180560392
ISBN-13: 9788180560392
Topic: Yoga
Chapter 6 - Yoga and the Five Forces
This chapter describes Yoga and the Five Forces located in the book Healing Yoga: A Guide to Integrating the Chakras With Your Yoga Practice compiled by Ambikananda Saraswati. This book teaches how to integrate an awareness of the Panchatattva (the five forces of vitality) and explores the chakra where it resides.
By restoring the panchatattva to a state of balance, and improving the flow of prana (vitality) within the body, you can achieve a healthier, happier life. This illustrated book, including this chapter—Yoga and the Five Forces—explains Hatha Yoga techniques, reveals imbalance within the body, illustrates all asanas, includes beneficial postures of common ailments.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Yoga and the Five Forces” according to 248 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
It is quoted in Vyavaharamayukha (p. 90), which explains ‘Yoga’ as ‘fraud’; and adds that the king shall nullify every transaction in connection with which he detects some fraud;—in Krityakalpataru (65b) which explains ‘upadhi’ as fraud,—‘yoga’ as ‘deceit’;—and in Viramitrodaya (Vyavahara, 39b), which has the following notes:—‘Adhamana’ is pledge,—‘yoga’ is deceit,—‘upadhi’ is fraud;—and adds that all fraudulent transactions are null and void....
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Serpent Power (Kundalini-shakti), Introduction [by Arthur Avalon]
These inrushing forces are alleged to set up on the surface of the “etheric double” secondary forces at right angles to themselves. The primary force on entrance into the vortex radiates again in straight lines, but at right angles. The number of these radiations of the primal force is said to determine the number of “petals” (as the Hindus call them) which the “Lotus” or vortex exhibits....
Read full contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
There is also said to be a monistic and also a dualistic Samkhya and that they find expression in three or five different ways. Thus Vijnana Bhikshu says that the Samkhya doctrine is definitely supported by the Upanishadic texts. Concerning the Yoga also it can be said that only that part of it may be regarded as opposed by the Upanishads which holds a separate and independent existence of prakriti as apart from Ishvara....
Read full contents: Part 8 - Bhikshu’s criticism of the Samkhya and Yoga
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[Healing Yoga (Integrating the Chakras): index]
[Foreword]
[Introduction]