Author: James Mallinson Publisher: YogaVidya.com ISBN: 0989996611 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 155
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This affordable, authoritative edition of the Shiva Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, nine full-page photographs, and an index. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This is the first edition of this classic Yoga text to meet both high academic and literary standards, the first to be based on a truly critical study of the Sanskrit manuscripts. It’s for people who practice Yoga, and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.
Author: James Mallinson Publisher: YogaVidya.com ISBN: 0971646651 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 192
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This affordable, authoritative edition of the Shiva Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, nine full-page photographs, and an index. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This is the first edition of this classic Yoga text to meet both high academic and literary standards, the first to be based on a truly critical study of the Sanskrit manuscripts. It’s for people who practice Yoga, and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.
Author: James Mallinson Publisher: YogaVidya.com ISBN: 0971646627 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 144
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This affordable, definitive edition of the Gheranda Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and 39 full-page photographs. It’s the most encyclopedic of the classic Yoga texts and teaches a unique sevenfold path to perfection of the person. This is the first edition to meet high academic, literary, and production standards. It’s for people who practice Yoga and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781986385503 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
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The "Shiva Samhita," an ancient Sanskrit text about yoga by an unknown author, is one of the three most important surviving classical treatises - not about Hatha Yoga - but describes the tantric awakening of the Kundalini. The other two writings are the "Gheranda Samhita" and "Hatha Yoga Pradipika," which are also partially immersed in the tantric system of exercise, but the "Shiva Samhita" has its origin in the tantric system and is, therefore, a hermetic Indian fundamental work. The Hindu god Shiva communicated the text in a conversation with his wife Parvati, which points to this form of Shastras (scripts). The "Shiva Samhita" is considered the most comprehensive and step-by-step treatise on yoga. All subsequent works on yoga are based on this book, although few people mention it. The "Shiva Samhita" talks about the complex physiology of yoga, of 84 different asanas (of which only four are described more precisely and are hermetically correct), describes five specific types of Prana - which are subordinate to the 5 deeds - and provides techniques to master them. It also deals with abstract yoga philosophy, mudras, tantric practices, and meditation. The "Shiva Samhita" emphasizes that even an ordinary individual can practice yoga and benefit from it, in the spirit of Franz Bardon!
Author: Swami Vishnuswaroop Publisher: ISBN: Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 0
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It is said that Gheraṇḍa Samhitā was composed in the Seventeenth Century by Sage Gheraṇḍa. Not so much is known regarding his time and place of birth. His system of yoga is called 'Saptāṅga Yoga' i.e. the yoga of seven limbs or parts. We know 'Aṣṭāṅga Yoga' (i.e. the eight limbs of yoga) by Sage Patañjali and 'Ṣaḍāṅga Yoga' (i.e. the six limbs of yoga) by Guru Gorakhanāth. All these systems of yoga with their specific limbs/parts are equally respected and followed in the yogic tradition. The first aspect of yogic practice described in Gheraṇḍa Samhitā is ṣaṭkarma, the six yogic cleansing practices. Their practice is important to get rid of diseases from the body and purify it properly. The second aspect of yogic practice discussed is the āsana. The importance of āsana practice is that they help create firmness and stability in the body. The third aspect of practice described is the mudrā which is used to control the flow of prāṇa and retain and circulate it within the body. The fourth aspect of practice he talked is pratyāhāra. According to Sage Gheraṇḍa, when body is purified through ṣaṭkarma, it is made firm and stable by āsana and prāṇa is controlled and retained by mudrā, then one can naturally do the practice of pratyāhāra. The fifth aspect of practice he taught is prānāyāma. In most of the prānāyāma practices he included mantras with them. Practice of pranayama with specific mantras creates direct impact on energy field within the body and mind through the vibrations of the mantras which eventually contribute for the expansion of awareness. The sixth aspect of discourse in Gheraṇḍa Samhitā is dhyāna. The state of dhyāna arises naturally when the body is pure, firm and stable, prāṇa is controlled and the mind is withdrawn within itself. It describes three types of dhyāna for developing awareness and one-pointedness of the mind. The seventh and final aspect described in Gheraṇḍa Samhitā is samādhi. Its achievement is the final goal of yoga.
Author: Swami Vishnuswaroop Publisher: ISBN: 9781521738757 Category : Languages : en Pages : 190
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Śiva Samhitā is an unparalleled and unique Sanskrit text on classical yoga. It explains the concept of yoga, its principle and practice in detail. Lord Śiva, the expounder of yoga, has declared this science of yoga for the welfare and liberation of all creatures in all the three worlds. There are five chapters in this test in which the teachings are primarily focused on the philosophy of creation and dissolution of the universe, bondage and liberation, the right knowledge of the reality and the ultimate aim of human life - Mokśa or liberation. Śiva Samhitā clearly elaborates the ways of attaining perfections, the Kuṇḍalinī and its awakening, the various forms and techniques of yoga. It also discusses the human body - the microcosm as a mirror of the macrocosm, the principles and importance of yogic way of life and the importance of the practice of various limbs of yoga. For the first time readers have access to this important work in English, accompanied by the original Sanskrit text in Roman transliteration, the only full translation of this classical yogic text.During the Victorian era an English translation was published in India, but a number of key sections were censored by that translator because, in his words, "they have to do with obscene practices promoted by low class tantrics." Swamii Vishnuswaroop feels that it is important to share the full teachings of Lord Shiva. He first translated the book into Nepali, and then into English.Swami Vishnuswaroop has chosen to include transliterations of the original Sanskrit text along with the English, enabling those who cannot read devanāgari script to pronounce, and hear, the text as other practitioners have for millennia.This new translation by Swamii Vishnuswaroop is, to our knowledge, the only full English translation of this classic yogic text.
Author: Srischandra Srischandra Basu Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781986599269 Category : Languages : en Pages : 56
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Shiva Sanhita is a Sanskrit text on yoga, written by an unknown author. The text is addressed by the Hindu god Shiva to his consort Parvati. It is one of three major surviving classical treatises on hatha yoga, the other two being Gheranda Samhita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The Shiva Samhita is considered the most comprehensive and the most democratic treatise on hatha yoga.
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