This article appeared in Ramaswami’s April 2009 newsletter. It is reproduced here with his kind permission. The Sanskrit word ‘aasana’ comes from the root ‘aas’ to sit, to sit quietly. Patanjali explains aasana from the yogic point of view as sitting with comfort and steadiness. Even though several ‘non-seated’ poses are called asanas in Yoga, [...]
This is an article that appeared in Ramaswami’s newsletter and is reproduced here with his kind permission: According to Yoga and other sibling philosophies, the entire universe is made of the three Gunas, Satwa, Rajas and Tamas and these permeate everything (including all of us) everywhere in dominating everything in varying degrees. Due to the [...]
