Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 168
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
Yoga is right living. This definition may appear to be simple, but really it is very significant, for the meaning of right living is very wide. Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj explains in an easy and homely style the basic principles that a beginner in Yoga has to understand and follow.
These Easy Steps to Yoga are laid out with a special view to enable the novice to ascend without much difficulty the heights of spiritual attainment. Ethical and moral discipline forms the foundation of Yoga. Sri Swamiji has beautifully brought together all the fundamentals-good conduct, non-attachment, dispassion, unselfish work, sense-control, meditation and knowledge to form a connected piece of complete information on the practice of Yoga, beginning with bodily health and training, and ending in Self-knowledge.
We bring out the sixth edition of this precious volume for the edification of students, both in the East and the West, who have no acquaintance with the technicalities involved in the subject, but are eager to have an adequate grasp of the main guiding principles in living a life of wisdom arising out of divine discontent.
Contents
PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE
PRAYER TO THE ALMIGHTY
UNIVERSAL PRAYER
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
Yoga Sadhana
CHAPTER II
Importance of Brahmacharya
CHAPTER III
Yoga of Right Conduct
CHAPTER IV
Mind, Its Mysteries and Control
CHAPTER V
Vedanta
CHAPTER VI
Practice of Meditation
CHAPTER VII
Special Instructions
CHAPTER VIII
Yogic Exercises
APPENDIX