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Ashtanga Yoga founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (1915—2009) dedicated his life to yoga. A longtime students remember the love and wisdom he offered. Big Yogi, Little Yogi In 1972 fellow yogi Norman Allen and I saw Manju Jois demonstrate the first series in Pondicherry. It blew my mind! Like a detective searching India for the [...]
Sutra Commentary: The meaning of “OM” By Ally Ford Yoga Sutra 1.28 That (the word Om) should be repeated while contemplating its meaning. Tajjapaha tadartha bhavanam Why do we chant Om? In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali tells us that Om (pronounced A-U-M) is the designator for Isvara, and Isvara is the highest level of consciousness [...]
Significance of the number 108 by Cora Wen – Yoga Bloom on Friday, July 3, 2009Have you ever wondered about the Significance of the number 108? I have looked up many of the symbolgy and would love to hear more…. A japa mala or mala is an eastern rosary with 108 beads. The mala is used both [...]
This translation of The Bhagavad Gita was first published in 1900 by Sir Edwin Arnold. A more recent translation is The Bhagavad Gita: God Talks With Arjuna by Paramahansa Yogananda. It’s a two volume set, featuring extended commentary. The Song Celestial (or). Bhagavad-Gita From the Mahabharata Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and [...]
The Book of the Spiritual Man, An Interpretation By Charles Johnston, Bengal Civil Service, Retired; Indian Civil Service, Sanskrit Prizeman; Dublin University, Sanskrit Prizeman Book I Book II Book III Book IV Introduction to Book I The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the [...]
Spirituality is the realization of the Universality of Truth, and the experience of bliss. It is an opportunity to realize, and become conscious of a Supreme Reality. And Yoga allows us to become fully in touch with who, and what we are. Not only our transient, conditioned characteristics which we only to easily identify. But also [...]
Ramakrishna was born in 1836 in Bengal. His parents were poor but very pious, his father having been dispossessed of all he owned because he had refused to bear false witness for a great landowner. Ramakrishna is said to have been a very beautiful child, whose first spiritual experience came at the age of six. [...]
A Collection of Verses, Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists Translated from Pali by F. Max Muller from The Sacred Books of the East. Translated by Various Oriental Scholars, Edited by F. Max Muller, Volume X Part I Contents Chapter 1: The Twin Verses Chapter 2: On Earnestness Chapter 3: Thought Chapter 4: Flowers Chapter [...]
A very special thanks to Giruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Mysore, India) for his thoughts on “Spirituality, Yoga, Hinduism.” Yoga is from the Sanskrit word ‘Yug’ meaning union {with the Divine}. These are the different types of Yoga. Before we examine the differences we should remember that all of them lead to the same goal which [...]
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