What is the importance of yoga in hinduism? elaborate please. any links?

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2) Also, can u explain the purpose of why hinduism worships specific gods and goddesses? i have to write a paper and im having troubl finding information about this online

Answer 1

There are many types of Yoga:

1. Jnana Yoga - is the way of wisdom.

The Jnana Yoga is monist. Jnana Yoga is the path Self-realization through the exercise of understanding, or, to be more precise, the wisdom associated with discerning the Real from the unreal.

This yoga is specifically what gets called the yoga of meditation. All these constitute the Buddhi yoga of the Bhagavad Gita, that is, the yoga of integrated intelligence and will.

2. Bhakti Yoga - is the way of exclusive devotion to God.

Bhakti Yoga is the supreme devotion to the Lord. Bhakti is intense attachment to God who is the Indweller in all beings, who is the support, solace for all beings. Bhakti yoga is integration through love or devotion. It teaches the rules of love, for it is the science of the higher love; it teaches how to direct and use love and how to give it a new object, how to obtain from it the highest and most glorious result, which is the acquisition of spiritual felicity. The Bhakti Yoga, does not say "abandon" but only love, love the Most High".

3. Karma Yoga - is the way of selfless work.

To exist is to act. Karma yoga means the discipline of action or integration through activity. Karma Yoga is the Yoga of self-surrendered action. Even an inanimate object such as a rock has movement. And the building blocks of matter, the atoms, are in fact not building blocks at all but incredibly complex patterns of energy in constant motion. Thus, the universe is a vast vibratory expanse. Karma Yoga is selfless service unto humanity.

: "For Me, O son of Pritha, there is nothing to be done in the three worlds, nothing ungained to be gained - and yet I engage in action." (III.22).

4. Raja Yoga - The Respelendent Yoga of Spiritual Kings

This refers to the Yoga system of Patanjali, is commonly used to distinguish Patanjali's eight-fold path of meditative introversion from Hatha Yoga.

Sri Aurobindo observed: "Indian yoga is experimental psychology. Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, the Upanishads - these and the Saiva Siddhanta treatises - furnish pioneering examples of experimental psychology." "In Indian psychology they proceed from the basis of the supremacy of mind over matter and postulate Atman as the ultimate Reality of the universe unification with which is the basic purpose of this yoga."

The whole thrust is on the concentration and control of mind after shutting it out of all worldly objects to reach the Ultimate Reality.

"The powers of the mind are like rays of dissipated light; when they are concentrated they illumine. This is the only means of Knowledge. The originality of Indian Raja Yoga lies in the fact that it has been the subject for centuries past of a minutely elaborated experimental science for the conquest of concentration and mastery of the mind. By mind, the Hindu Yogi understands the instrument as well as the object of knowledge, and in what concerns the object, he goes very far, farther than I can follow him."


Other Forms of Yoga

There are several other forms of yoga, such as Hatha Yoga, Mantra Yoga, and Laya Yoga. The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to destroy or transform all that which, in man, interferes with his union with the universal Being. It is a "Yoga of strength" which lays particular stress on physical exercises that even permit the adept to perform physiological feats that are normally beyond human capacity.


Here is the link which can help you:

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Yoga_and_Hindu_Philosophy.htm

Short and to the point.

Answer 2

Yoga In Hinduism

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Yogas are hindu paths to mokksha, or the seeing of Brahman.

There are 3:

Mind: Meditation, the refining and purification of the mind.
Body: The Yoga everyone nomally thinks of
Heart: Compassion, enlightenment through the giving of oneself to others in the form of compassion.

Hinduism, despite popular belief, is actually monotheistic. The myriad gods and goddeses just represent different aspects, or moods, of one god known as Brahman. The three main gods(Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva) represent, respectively, the creator, preserver, and destroyer aspects of Brahman. Hindus do not believe Brahman is a "man in the sky", instead they believe he is a universal lifeforce that resides in all living things. The goal of hinduism, the achievement of Mokksha, is to be able to see Brahman in everything. They believe in reincarnation and a cycle of creation and destruction in which the world is destroyed and recreated over and over again. Their god Vishnu is believed to return to earth 9 times to help humanity in times of peril. The last incarnation, Kali or Kalki, will arrive during the age known as Kali-Yuga and cleanse the world before Shiva detroys it.

Answer 4

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because western preachers tell there followers that they will go to hell if they follow the hindu path so they say im doing yoga which is not hinduism so they dont think they are going to hell if they do hinduism

Answer 5

The word "Yoga" means Union with God.
According to Vedic literatures, there are various process of Reaching back to God, and the processes are recommended according to the mentality of the persons who want to go back to God. The various process of yoga are described in great details in Bhagavad Gita.
You can read Bhagavad Gita and other books in yoga online at
http://www.krishna.com/main.php?id=33

Now-a-days people sell “Asana” or “Sitting Postures” as “Yoga”. But this is cheating. Asana are just preparation of body in order to be able to sit and meditate on God for a long time.

The Reason for worship of Demigods or Angles in mentioned in Bhagavad Gita. 3.10 onwards, 7.20 onwards and also at many other places in Bhagavad Gita.

You can read it online at same site or at
http://www.bhagavadgitaasitis.com/en

Hope this helps

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