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Pantanjali's 10 Necessary Elements for Yoga
1. Ahimsa: non-violence, non-injury, harmlessness.
2. Satya: truthfulness, honesty.
3. Asteya: non-stealing, honesty, non-misappropriativeness.
4. Brahmacharya: sexual continence in thought, word and deed as well as control of all the senses.
5. Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-greed, non-selfishness, non-acquisitiveness.
6. Shaucha: purity, cleanliness.
7. Santosha: contentment, peacefulness.
8. Tapas: austerity, practical (i.e., result-producing) spiritual discipline.
9. Swadhyaya: introspective self-study, spiritual study.
10. Ishwarapranidhana: offering of one’s life to God.
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So apparently that's just the beginning. The path of liberation is hard, to put it lightly. Yoga has nothing to do with attaining a perfectly-toned butt.
“‘Brahman may be realized while yet one dwells in the ephemeral body. To fail to realize him is to live in ignorance, and therefore to be subject to birth and death. The knowers of Brahman are immortal; others, knowing him not, continue in the bonds of grief.’” (Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad 4:4:13,14)
2. Satya: truthfulness, honesty.
3. Asteya: non-stealing, honesty, non-misappropriativeness.
4. Brahmacharya: sexual continence in thought, word and deed as well as control of all the senses.
5. Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-greed, non-selfishness, non-acquisitiveness.
6. Shaucha: purity, cleanliness.
7. Santosha: contentment, peacefulness.
8. Tapas: austerity, practical (i.e., result-producing) spiritual discipline.
9. Swadhyaya: introspective self-study, spiritual study.
10. Ishwarapranidhana: offering of one’s life to God.
***
So apparently that's just the beginning. The path of liberation is hard, to put it lightly. Yoga has nothing to do with attaining a perfectly-toned butt.
“‘Brahman may be realized while yet one dwells in the ephemeral body. To fail to realize him is to live in ignorance, and therefore to be subject to birth and death. The knowers of Brahman are immortal; others, knowing him not, continue in the bonds of grief.’” (Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad 4:4:13,14)