Come here every now and then. A brass pot must be polished every day: otherwise it gets stained. One should constantly live in the company of holiness."
-Sri Ramakrishna
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The word Yoga comes from the “joining” or “union” from the Sanskrit root yuj. Which means joining” or “union”
Union with the Supreme Being, or any practice that makes for such union. Meditation that unites the individual spirit with God, the Supreme Spirit
. Yoga is restraint of the activities of the mind, and is the union of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul.
It is a unitive discipline.
In this sense it is an exercise in moral and mental cultivation that generates good health (arogya),
contributes to longevity (chirayu), and the total intrinsic discipline culminates into positive and perennial happiness and peace.
Therefore, yoga is the said to be indispensable of the ultimate accomplishment in life.
It is a science that affects not only the conscious self but the subconscious as well.
It is a practical physiological training (kriya yoga), which if practiced can exalt man to the 'supra mundane level'
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