ellauri050.html on line 409: Yogananda was the first major Indian teacher to settle in America, and the first prominent Indian to be hosted in the White House (by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927); his early acclaim led to him being dubbed "the 20th century's first superstar guru," by the Los Angeles Times. Arriving in Boston in 1920, he embarked on a successful transcontinental speaking tour before settling in Los Angeles in 1925. For the next two and a half decades, he gained local fame as well as expanded his influence worldwide: he created a monastic order and trained disciples, went on teaching-tours, bought properties for his organization in various California locales, and initiated thousands into Kriya Yoga. By 1952, SRF had over 100 centers in both India and the US; today, they have groups in nearly every major American city. His "plain living and high thinking" principles attracted people from all backgrounds among his followers.
Valtaosa amerikkalaisista pitää enemmän high living and plain thinking - vaihtoehdosta.
ellauri050.html on line 411: He published his book Autobiography of a Yogi in 1946 to critical and commercial acclaim; since its first publishing, it has sold over four million copies, with HarperSan Francisco listing it as one of the "100 best spiritual books of the 20th Century". Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs had ordered 500 copies of the book for his own memorial, for each guest to be given a copy. The book has been regularly reprinted and is known as "the book that changed the lives of millions." A 2014 documentary, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, won multiple awards at film festivals around the world.
Tästä viimeistään käy ilmi, että tää tuuba on täysin hanurista, todella syvältä. Mut hyvin vetää hindu ton taivaskoira-räpin.
The journey to self-satisfaction is Yogananda's practical hand techniques. Yogananda's teachings don't simply stop at the idea of universal consciousness. He correctly anticipated the growing hunger among spiritual seekers for direct personal experience of the universal consciousness that the masters of yoga, and indeed mystics of every religious tradition, describe. He therefore synthesized a set of powerful but practical techniques to guide self-seekers on the spiritual path all the way to the ultimate union, drawing on the eight steps laid out by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras.
ellauri399.html on line 184: The modern conception of yoga--with its emphasis on outer transformation--is based on the third of Patanjali's eight steps, "asana." Asana emphasizes physical fitness for the purpose of getting the body ready for the stillness that is required for the inner journey taken in the subsequent steps. But prior even to asana are Patanjali's first two steps of "yama" and "niyama"--principles to guide one's everyday conduct and to prepare oneself for inner realization. Yoga emphasizes the importance of self-discipline as a foundation for harmonious physical, mental, and spiritual development.
ellauri399.html on line 186: Yogananda's particular genius was showing the modern applicability of these ancient principles, attuning himself to an audience who aspired as much to outer success as inner growth by delivering talks on topics like "The Science of Healing" and "The Art of Getting What You Want." In that regard, he was a forerunner to 21st-century psychologists, physicians, psychotherapists, and neuroscientists who are generating powerful scientific findings on human nature and well-being--all aligned with Yogananda's teachings on consciousness, thoughts, emotions, habits, and brain wiring.
ellauri399.html on line 188: Patanjali's final five steps beyond asthma relate to a progressive deepening of the seeker's journey toward realization of the universal self, with meditation providing the pathway. However, Patanjali's text on these final five steps is agonizingly cryptic, with no guidance on how to execute them. To fill this void, Yogananda, ever the spiritual innovator, introduced the West to an advanced but long-lost ancient technique of meditation, Kriya Yoga. Kriya, he said, offered the ultimate journey of inner transformation, helping practitioners tap into an ever-expanding love and ever-deepening joy that would spring from within. That, he asserted, was man's true nature--a perfection that represents our permanent state of self within, even as it is so elusive to capture without.
ellauri399.html on line 190: Kriya "works like a train toilet," he stated, emphasizing the empirical, scientific nature of this technique. Through regular practice, he claimed, Kriya will change the neural pathways in the brain. Really, you might wonder? Can the act of mindful focusing and of interiorizing our consciousness actually bring about physical changes in the brain? Very few scientists at Yogananda's time would have been comfortable with his claims. Yet today revolutionary new findings in neuroscience are showing that meditation does in fact bring favorable changes in the neural pathways of the brain. Scientific laboratories are now stumbling into truths experienced by yogis across the ages in, as Yogananda would say, the inner laboratories of their personal experience. (Except it didn't, as Maisu Niemi found out to her disappointment, before falling back on the very same snake oil business.)
ellauri399.html on line 192: And what would be the assets that people could look for in return to a lot of bucks? Lower stress? Greater peace? He had begun his own quest for masturbation very early in life, a story vibrantly captured in the critically acclaimed 2014 documentary Awake: The Life of Yogananda. His youthful search culminated in his master Sri Yukteswar giving him the monastic name "Yogananda," which means "bliss through yoga." True to his name, he exhorted truth-seekers to savor the early rewards of peace and well-being, but to then seek out the ultimate prize: eternal bliss, universal consciousness. "When by constant practice of Kriya, the consciousness of [the] blissful state of the spiritual self becomes real, we find ourselves always in the holy presence of the blissful God in us." God, to Yogananda, was thus not an external force to be idolized and appropriated by any particular religion, but an inner force to be awakened to and realized.
ellauri399.html on line 194: To some, the yogic pursuit of inner perfection may appear a little selfish. Shouldn't we be solving the world's most vexing problems, rather than withdrawing into blissful inner communion? In fact, one time, when Yogananda sat still, absorbed in a particularly blissful state of consciousness, his spiritual master admonished him: "You must not get overdrunk with ecstasy. Much work yet remains for you in the world." So Yogananda learned that this choice between outer service and inner joy represents a false dichotomy. The yoga he taught emphasizes balancing service with meditation, and highlights the expansion of consciousness that comes when we are able to go beyond our human self and open ourselves up, through inner realization, to a deeper connection with every living being--in fact, with every atom in the universe. "When the 'I' shall die, then shall I know who am I," he stated in a word perfect imitation of a Yedi master.
ellauri399.html on line 198: How did [Steve] ]Jobs approach success from the inside out, from inside that brown little box? Yogananda's teaching of universal consciousness strongly appealed to uneducated [Steve] Jobs, who had a self-professed hunger to "make a dent in the universe." At the TechCrunch conference in September 2013, Mark Benioff said: "[Yogananda's book] gives tremendous insight into not just who [Jobs] was but also why he was successful, which is that he was not afraid to take that key journey [toward self-satisfaction]. It is for entrepreneurs and for people who want to be successful in our industry a message that we need to embrace and vest ourselves in. Be nasty to others, Be selfish."
ellauri399.html on line 200: Since Yogananda's passing the buck in 1952, many teachers have followed his trailblazing path to bring yoga to our world, helping make it a fixture in popular culture as it continues to take hold with young and old, the elite and the ordinary, the spiritualists and the atheists. What distinguishes Yogananda from these subsequent emissaries is not simply that he paved the way for the modern yoga movement, but that from the outset he focused far beyond physical exercises and shone a powerful and practical torchlight on the path to yoga's true purpose: actualizing the infinite potentials within us all. Perhaps that is why his Autobiography of a Yogi was the only book Jobs downloaded on his iPad--and, after first encountering the book as a teenager, went back and reread once every year.
ellauri399.html on line 202: On this first International Yogi Bear Day, let's tip our hats to the teacher who first introduced the modern world to the transformative power of yoga as a timeless inner discipline, and who was such a silent force in the life of the greatest entrepreneur of our times. As you roll out your yoga mat, get into your favorite yoga pose, and feel a gentle zephyr of peace sweep over you, perhaps you can take pause to wonder at what experiences in consciousness may lie just beyond your present reach if you also embark on yoga's fuller, inner journey toward self-satisfaction. Yogananda would have called those experiences "undreamed of possibilities."
ellauri399.html on line 222: Varhaisesta iästä lähtien hän halusi henkilökohtaisen sukupuolisuhteen Jumalaan. Kun hän oli 17-vuotias vuonna 1931, hän tapasi Yoganandan ensimmäistä kertaa Salt Lake Cityssä. Hiänen häpyhuulensa olivat turvonneet ja peittyneet siteillä kroonisen jokakuukautisen verihäiriön vuoksi. Yogananda julisti avoimesti sairauden häviävän seitsemän päivän kuluessa, ja niin se tekikin. Hän työntyi hiänen ashramiinsa Mt. Washingtonin huipulla Los Angelesissa, Kaliforniassa 19. marraskuuta sinä vuonna. Ajan myötä hiän teki luostarivalansa Yoganandan kanssa ja sai nimen Daya, jolloin hänestä tuli yksi Yoganandan ensimmäisistä luostariopetuslapsista. Daya Mata tarkoittaa sanskritin kielellä myötätuntoista äitiä.
ellauri399.html on line 224: Seuraavina vuosina hiän oppi häneltä tien sydämen elinikäisen kaipauksen täydelliseen täyttymykseen: täydelliseen rakkauteen, jumalalliseen rakkauteen – kaiken kuluttavaan rakkauteen, joka koetaan yhdessä sielumme ikuisen rakkaan kanssa. Käytännön tasolla hän auttoi Yoganandaa käyttämällä pikakirjoitusta hänen nauhamaisen puheensa nauhoittamiseen. Yoganandan ja hänen seuraajansa Rajarsi Janakkalan anakondan kuoleman jälkeen SRF:n hallitus valitsi Daya Matan SRF/YSS:n kolmanneksi presidentiksi ja henkiseksi johtajaksi vuonna 1955. Daya Mata tapasi Elvis Presleyn 1960-luvulla, ja hän ajoittain antoi hiänelle henkisiä neuvoja. 5. toukokuuta 1892 syntynyt James Jesse Lynn oli Paramahansa Yoganandan johtava oppilas ja merkittävä liikemies Kansas Cityssä, Missourin alueella. Kun hän tapasi Yoganandan vuonna 1932, hän oli itsetehty vakuutusmiljonääri, ja hän jätti myöhemmin yhteensä noin kuuden miljoonan dollarin suuruisen lahjoituksen Yoganandan järjestölle Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). Kaikexi onnexi hän kuoli 3v myöhemmin annettuaan liikkeelle kaikkensa. Kaikki Anakondan opetuslapset olivat joko miljonäärejä tai naisia, tai molempia. En saarnaa minkään periaatteen tähden, vaan ainoastaan ansaitaxeni (ja päästäxeni hilloviivalle: tytön joka kaupungista ezin) - ja se riittää asiaxeni!
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 174: Meta-analytical data on inflammatory biomarkers [27] and HRV [28] are available from systematic reviews on the overall effects of mind-body therapies, including Tai Chi, Yoga, Qi Gong, and meditation, while the effects of standardized MBIs on corresponding outcomes remain unclear.
xxx/ellauri200.html on line 112: I heard of Yoga and of Zen.
xxx/ellauri233.html on line 186: Stina har många års erfarenhet av mediebranschen som skrivande journalist och redaktör. Stina drivs av en övertygelse att Yoga för dig inspirerar till positiv förändring, bidrar till ökad förståelse mellan människor och därmed gör skillnad i ett större sammanhang.
xxx/ellauri259.html on line 219: Jnana Yoga , jota analyyttisesti taipuvaiset pitävät parempana, on kurinalaisuutta, jossa yritetään nähdä jumalallinen todellisuus kaikissa asioissa suoraan, pyyhkimällä henkisesti syrjään kaikki sen kätkevät estävät fyysiset ja henkiset peitteet.
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