Number theory what is number theory? (Samkhya) if you practice yoga, you must understand number theory, which is the predecessor of modern yoga philosophy.
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra is based on the philosophy of number theory.
When it comes to number theory, first of all, we need to talk about the main religious philosophy schools in India and their division methods.
The main way to divide these schools is to see whether they accept the Vedas as authority.
The six factions with Veda Sutra as the authority include: number theory, victory theory, righteousness, yoga, Vedanta and diffuse difference.
Among them, number theory has the longest history, which was founded by the sage Kapila.
Yoga was originally a part of number theory, and did not exist independently until the Yoga Sutra of patangali appeared.
Among the six schools, Vedanta is the most well-known and has the most followers.
The theory of no two, founded by the famous yogi shangjialuo, belongs to the branch of Vedanta.
Gaudiyavaishnavism followed by the author is also subordinate to Vedanta philosophy.
The philosophical theme of number theory, “Samkhya” means “thinking and counting”, and its philosophical theme is: all creation originates from two kinds of existence, purusha and Prakrit.
Purusa is pure consciousness, soul, or self, while Prakrit is matter and nature.
Number theory further analyzes how Prakrit evolved twenty-four elements in the universe: Buddhi (Mahat), ahamkara (Manas), five sensory organs (eyes, nose, tongue, ears, skin), five action organs (hands, mouth, feet, reproductive organs, excretory organs), five subtle elements (sound, touch, shape, taste, smell), and five rough elements (ether, air, fire, water, earth).
Its philosophical theory is intended to guide practitioners to experience the order of material creation in practice, so as to distinguish between material and soul, and let the soul get rid of the influence of material.
What we can touch now is mainly the philosophical content of number theory.
Its practice method was orally passed on by the guru to the disciples in the past.
If you want to know more about number theory, you can visit kapilmath in West Bengal, India, which is the only temple in the world that teaches the practice of number theory.
Books on number theory the three oldest existing books on number theory are: sankhyasutra, tattvasamasa, and sankhyakarikabyisvarakrsna.
I haven’t read the first two books, and there are many different annotated versions of the third one.
For books on modern number theory, I recommend swamihariharanandaaranya.
He is the founder of kapilmath and a very learned master of number theory.
Among the books written by swamihariharananda, there is a very interesting book: “aunique travelogue”.
This is an allegorical novel, described in the first person, which tells the adventures of “I” from Tibet over the Himalayas to West Bengal, India.
The author is an excellent novelist.
He uses the temple built by yogis in the mountains with mysterious power as a metaphor to reflect the different stages of meditation in number theory practice by telling the mysterious experience of “I” in different halls in the temple.
The author is very bad.
At the end of the book, he said that he hid the road map in a temple in West Bengal, which led me to fantasize for a long time that it was a true story.
Other recommended books are samkhyaacorsthemillenniums and thesamkhyacatechism (sorry, there is no Chinese translation yet).
For those who want to know more about yoga philosophy, I highly recommend reading some books on number theory.
We know that the practice of yoga is not only the practice of asana, asana is only a small part.
Even in traditional hatha yoga, the focus is on the practice of cleansing method, which aims to balance and purify the body, so as to better enter meditation practice.
About asana, a teacher said, “what’s the use of washing the car without driving it to your destination?” In the practice of yoga, what is more important is that we know what the goal of the practice is, or where we want to go, which requires us to understand the philosophical theory.
In different yoga traditions, the experience of truth or samadhi is also different.
Practitioners of devotional yoga experience bhavasamadhi in samadhi, Hatha Yoga practitioners experience jadasamadhi, and wisdom yoga practitioners experience Prajna.
When we understand philosophy and the ultimate goal, we can go deeper into our practice and truly experience the existence of yoga in practice.
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