by Pranakriya | Pranakriya blog |
This article was originally published in the Yoga Bulletin, the newsletter of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association. In it Yoganand teaches about the Niyama called Tapas. He describes how Tapas has been practiced and understood in ancient times and how it may be used...
by Pranakriya | Features, Pranakriya blog |
Swadhyaya (also spelled svadhyaya) is a compound word: Swa- self, or one’s own self, and Dhyaya- a lesson, lecture, reading. A basic translation is to ‘study the self.’ In the earliest stage of Indian philosophy and religion, Vedic Brahmanism meant to learn the Vedas,...
