Raj Yoga_Essential – Shunya Pragya https://shunyapragya.com Shunya Yoga and Meditation Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 https://shunyapragya.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-121-1-32x32.png Raj Yoga_Essential – Shunya Pragya https://shunyapragya.com 32 32 Jyotish and the City of Shadows https://shunyapragya.com/jyotish-and-the-city-of-shadows/ https://shunyapragya.com/jyotish-and-the-city-of-shadows/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:40:51 +0000 https://shunyapragya.com/?p=4720 Human ideologies are like shadows. We create shadows, these shadows fight, and real humans suffer. Sadly, we humans have collectively agreed to live in the darkness of our shadows. Any obstruction in the path of light creates a shadow in the shape of the obstruction. Our consciousness is a kind of inner light that gets […]

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]]> https://shunyapragya.com/jyotish-and-the-city-of-shadows/feed/ 0 My Turban of Knowledge https://shunyapragya.com/my-turban-of-knowledge/ https://shunyapragya.com/my-turban-of-knowledge/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2022 07:02:28 +0000 https://shunyapragya.com/?p=4713 Learning gave me the pride of knowledge. Knowing made me humble, as I know now, how much I don’t know. According to Lao Tzu, “To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” Our understanding of life is expressed through knowledge and wisdom. Both of these are important in their […]

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]]> https://shunyapragya.com/my-turban-of-knowledge/feed/ 0 Life Together – We live in one existence, and there are no spare parts https://shunyapragya.com/life-together-we-live-in-one-existence-and-there-are-no-spare-parts/ https://shunyapragya.com/life-together-we-live-in-one-existence-and-there-are-no-spare-parts/#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:49:24 +0000 https://shunyapragya.com/?p=4710 Can you create a gap in existence? Can you possibly live unconnected in this world? Can colors be seen without the seer? Can you perceive anything without sensing the other? Every breath we take links us with trees. Every drop of water we drink links us to the rivers. And, every step we move links […]

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]]> https://shunyapragya.com/life-together-we-live-in-one-existence-and-there-are-no-spare-parts/feed/ 0 Emptiness (Śūnyatā) – Emptiness is a great understanding https://shunyapragya.com/emptiness-sunyata-emptiness-is-a-great-understanding/ https://shunyapragya.com/emptiness-sunyata-emptiness-is-a-great-understanding/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:10:57 +0000 https://shunyapragya.com/?p=4699 Emptiness (Śūnyatā) What is it: Whose existence is its annihilation? Whose knowing burns the knowledge? Who cannot be held, though, is always in your hands? Emptiness is its name. Prelude Emptiness is a great understanding and is most difficult as well. Its nature is non-dualistic and is fundamental for the duality to exist. It is […]

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]]> https://shunyapragya.com/emptiness-sunyata-emptiness-is-a-great-understanding/feed/ 0 Tame your craving mind, mindfully! https://shunyapragya.com/tame-your-craving-mind-mindfully/ https://shunyapragya.com/tame-your-craving-mind-mindfully/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:22:19 +0000 https://shunyapragya.com/?p=4197 Tame your craving mind, mindfully! Learn Five Stages of Non-attachment from a Yogic Perspective.  Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear. It is not disciplining first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known Abstract: A craving is a […]

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]]> https://shunyapragya.com/tame-your-craving-mind-mindfully/feed/ 2 Four-Part Yogic Model of Mind https://shunyapragya.com/four-parts-of-yogic-model-of-mind/ https://shunyapragya.com/four-parts-of-yogic-model-of-mind/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2020 10:10:52 +0000 https://shunyapragya.com/dev/?p=3690 Mind is an internal instrument of actions. It is the basis of all normal conscious physical and psychological functions of a being. In Yoga mind is traditionally called as “internal instrument.” It has primarily four interconnected functions: Manas – Including the five physical motor senses Buddhi– computing or intellectual power of mind Ahamkara-Personalization of experience […]

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]]> https://shunyapragya.com/four-parts-of-yogic-model-of-mind/feed/ 41 Essentials of Raj-Yoga as it is https://shunyapragya.com/essentials-of-raj-yoga-as-it-is/ https://shunyapragya.com/essentials-of-raj-yoga-as-it-is/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2019 07:09:29 +0000 http://www.spotcodes.com/courses/?p=2957 Essentials of Raj-Yoga as it is Raj Yoga is a systematically organized path of yoga. Its Purpose is clearly laid out in terms of removal of suffering and at the same time allows for direct experience of our fundamental nature. As a result Human being lives a joyful and meaningful life. This system is deeply […]

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