ŚABDA-YOGA : The Language Of Yoga Demystified – Part 6.2
In Sabda yoga series today we are analysis of the terminology – Pratiṣṭhā.
In Sabda yoga series today we are analysis of the terminology – Pratiṣṭhā.
Sabda-Yoga Part 6: The Language of Yoga Demystified with analysis of the terminology – rūpa,
In Sabda-Yoga :The Language of Yoga Demystified further with analysis of the terminology – Jnana.
The Language of Yoga Demystified with analysis of these terminologies – pratyakṣa, anumāna, āgama, mithyā in Sabda-Yoga Part V
The Language of Yoga Demystified further with analysis of these terminologies – kliṣṭa & akliṣṭa, pramāṇa, viparyaya, vikalpa, nidrā, smṛti in Sabda-Yoga.
Through Part 3 of Sabda-Yoga series, The Language of Yoga is Demystified further with analysis of these yoga terminologies – Nirodha, Draṣṭā, Svarūpa, Avasthāna and Sārūpya
Śabda-yoga is intended to help students, teachers, and professionals of Yoga to develop a sound grammatical, contextual, and thereby an authentic and immersive understanding of Yoga terminologies.
The word Aṅga is not used only in the context of Yoga. Terms like Vedāṅga, caturaṅga are also famous. But the article is addressed to the Yogic fraternity, and that is why aṣṭāṅga was mentioned initially.
The words that appear in the yogasūtras will be sequentially dealt initially and then terms from other prominent Yoga texts will be taken up. Every śabda-yoga article will analyse five terms. The first five terms for this article are – samādhi, sādhana, vibhūti, kaivalya , sūtra
As a master storyteller, Satyajit Ray keeps the audience enthralled with intriguing and intelligent plots and riveting narration. In the process, he also gives strong doses of traditional wisdom and culture as discussed in this essay
Yoga is one of the fields that is indebted to Purāṇas. This becomes evident when we study traditional Saṃskṛta commentaries to Yogasūtras.
When circumstances of bereavement caused by pandemic such as covid arises we are in a state of shock, how do we overcome the shock and manage ourselves better?
In the light of 14th century Sāyaṇācārya’s commentary, Here are the Five Ancient Vedic Mantras that Dissuade Sati and Encourage Widow Remarriage. Presence of these Mantras in the Saṃhitā texts pushes the antiquity of the mantras further deep into the past. Sāyaṇācārya whose commentary is used to explain these mantras is from 14th Century, Vijayanagara empire.
चलिए, अब हम तंत्र-युक्ति सिद्धांत के चौथे मुख्य विशेषता पर विचार करेंगे जो कहता है कि तन्त्रयुक्ति को ग्रन्थ की आवश्यकताओं के अनुसार अपनाया जा सकता है।
चर्चा करते हैं की कैसे तन्त्रयुक्ति का अखिल भारतीय प्रसार था। हम यह भी देखेंगे कि कैसे तन्त्रयुक्ति में एक व्यवस्थित ग्रन्थ की संरचना के लिए सभी मूलभूत पहलू शामिल हैं।
Dr Jayaraman Mahadevan is the Director -Textual Research for Yoga at Indica. Sri Jayaraman holds a PhD in – Sanskrit from the University of Madras (2006-2010). He creditably completed his under graduation (Education, Philosophy, English Literature) and post-graduation (Sanskrit) with gold medal and first rank in both the degrees. He underwent traditional Gurukula education, in Vedas and Shastras (1998-2005), in Veda Vijnana Gurukulam, Bengaluru, under Pracarya Kotemane Ramachandra Bhat. He served the research department of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai, in the capacity of Assistant Director (2010-2015) initially and later as Director (2015-2021). Thus far, he has published 14 books and 14 peer reviewed Journal articles and numerous popular articles on Yoga and Sanskrit literature in English, Tamil and Sanskrit languages. He is also involved in developing immersive learning methods of Yoga texts. ‘Yogasya Bhasha’ a four part self-learning material on Sanskrit and Yoga, ‘Yoga-vaisharadi’ – a searchable web-repository on classical texts of Yoga are a few of his noteworthy contributions in recent times. His workshops on “Tantrayukti – Ancient Indian thesis/text construction methodology” are well received. His passion also lies in composing Sanskrit poetry on contemporary themes.