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| | Principles
and Practice of Hindu Religion | |
Chapter
- VI : The
Daily Practice of the Faith |
An
Applied Method of Practice of the Agamas and the
Vedas to lead a Pious and Peaceful Way of Life |
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| | Lesson
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Principles of the Teachings and its Practice The
Four Yogas as Spiritual Discipline | |
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real meaning of the Religion becomes revealed to one who practices the spiritual
discipline. It cannot be reconciled if one emphasizes only the letter of the scriptures
and overlooks the spirit and inner meaning revealed in the books. One must have
the faith in those writings and understand the teachings through a teacher and
then he must analyze and subject it to rigorous reasoning. After this, having
been convinced of the soundness of the doctrine of the scriptures, one should
meditate and experience the teachings in the depths of contemplation. This is
the true spirituality and this is the practice of Yoga, which means the union
of the individual self with the Supreme Self. The Vedas gave different types of
rules available for different kinds of people to follow according each one's understanding
and desire. The yogas are spiritual disciplines
for daily living and practice of religion for a devout Hindu. Yoga is not just
repetition of some unknown words and some exercises.
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The
Vedic teachings, as a guide, gave us four main paths for our living and for practice
of religion. They are the Karma Yoga, Bhakthi Yoga, Raja
Yoga and Jñana
Yoga. Of the four yogas, Raja Yoga deals with conditioning, control
and development of the body and mind through self-control, concentration and physical
discipline. They perform special breathing exercises, meditation and physical
exercises. Jñana Yoga or the path of knowledge is the deep study of the scriptures
and philosophy. It is the purest form of spiritual discipline with the search
for the impersonal reality. This is extremely difficult for people who are still
partly materialistic and are constantly attached to their duties to the world
and its being. We see Karma Yoga and Bhakthi Yoga followed as the two common methods
for daily living for all our people here. Thus Hinduism is not just a Religion,
a blind faith or a cold philosophy for intellectuals but the whole way of life
and thinking for every day and for every one to follow in their daily practice.
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