YOGA means UNION or to join like YOKE. Relaxing your body and making you feel better is not the objective of Yoga, but it does both of those things too. It has a superior objective: THE UNION OF THE SOUL WITH ATMAN. What is Atman? We will post that soon, please come back to check.
There are many good YOGA BOOKS and also books to achieve awareness which will help you to attain a better spiritual life. They can give you a very good idea about all types of yoga, but we recommend those written by Masters which really achieve the goal or, at least, those who went far enough. You can find some of those yoga books on this page on the top to the right hand. You will also find other books about life, happiness, awareness, the mind and meditation too.
Real happiness and peace cannot be attained by regular thoughts and feeling, but by means of a new way to think and feel. That is what all cultures taught in their wisdom. Modern life is too full of stress and peace is more than far from us and happiness too. How can we get this new way to think and feel? There is when yoga and meditation come to the rescue. Both are great techniques to achieve happiness and peace. Nevertheless, it takes time and effort as everything in life. Nobody can change just in a few weeks or months because we have a long time doing thinking and feeling the same way; plus we have made many mistakes.
Now days we see many places of yoga and meditation, but not all of them follow the main objective. Most of them stay in a safe area: Relaxing and feeling better. Some go a little farther teaching you to concentration, awareness and more; but a few teach you how to become one with your Real Being. Reason: It is not that easy, it takes a lot of effort and it might be lack of understanding or interest on the matter.There are several types of yoga: Kundalini Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Backti yoga, etc. We will discuss some of those which have a real background in time and are not product of the market.
What kind of yoga do we need to achieve happiness and peace? Well, we might need all of them, but we might start understanding and having an idea about the main ones. You can start with anyone, but we suggest starting with RAJA YOGA AND KARMA YOGA; LATER KUNDALINI YOGA, which is more powerful and require more discipline.Meditation is a practice which does not require movement. It is to develop relaxation, concentration, and deep interiorization. You must go deep down into your own psyche to find yourself and live the moment in the fullest expression.
Meditation is wonderful for self-knowledge! You can discover your inner forces and weakness; the control of your own mind and even the root of thoughts and emotions.Yoga has many exercises, but meditation is part of yoga. Actually those yoga’s exercises must be combined with meditation. In other words, concentration and living the moment is important to practice yoga in a proper way.
When you combine meditation and yoga together (when you do yoga in a meditation state) you get the full benefits of both: Yoga and meditation. Then you can develop your inner energies and get rid of negative emotions and negative thoughts.
Yoga and meditation are really a need for the body and our soul. They both can help you to change your vibration and change it to a higher level of vibration. Both of them help you to live in harmony with nature and the universe. Both are great to achieve inner peace and calmness. Both feed our body and soul. Whoever wants a better life must practice either or both.Someone with many years of practice is a real nice guide and by means of his/her knowledge and own experience can teach and guide you in the best way possible. Nevertheless, the best comes from the bests and the best are the Masters like Sivananda, Krishnamurty or even Yogananda and some others.
