The most important purpose of yoga practice is to reduce ignorance, so that understanding can gradually emerge.
However, how do you know if you have really seen or understood something clearly? One of the criteria for judgment is that when we see the truth or reach a higher level of understanding than we usually do, we feel peaceful and calm deep inside, and there is a sense of satisfaction that we will not lose anything.
This sense of satisfaction is not the same as the satisfaction of watching beautiful things, but also stronger and more certain, because it is located deep within us and is not influenced by any emotions or judgments.
And the center of this sense of satisfaction is pure consciousness.
Yoga is both movement and arrival.
The yoga that we practice and can make progress through practice is called “purification yoga” (i.e.
yoga practiced).
The Yoga Sutra believes that purifying yoga is composed of three elements: practice, insight into oneself, and delivery to God.
Cultivation refers not to atonement or penance, but to the act of making oneself physically and mentally healthy.
It is an internal purification process used to remove things that one no longer needs.
Insight into oneself is a gradual process, through which we discover who we are, where we are, and what we are.
In fact, the practice of asana is also based on these questions.
We take the first step by observing our breath and body, and repeat this step continuously afterwards, hoping to increase our understanding of ourselves and the current situation over time.
By using this method, one can also learn to determine what to do next.
If you agree with the view of the Yoga Sutra, you will find that no matter what type of yoga practice it is, it is closely related to insight into oneself.
Finally, the literal meaning of delivering to God is actually ‘humbly delivering to God’.
However, as it is up to humans to decide whether to accept God in purified yoga, the meaning delivered to God in the context of purified yoga is actually more related to “focused actions”: valuing the quality of each action rather than the resulting results.
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