The path of Yoga
The roots of practices yoga sink away time, probably in the second millennium was our forward, However, the first organic systematization of discipline is the work of Yaogdrshn the first centuries the current resolution. The school trace a path that unfolds into eight stages or, as indicated by the term ashtanga reported in this particular form of Yoga, It is divided into “eight limbs”, whose purpose is the dissociation of the practitioner from everything that is material to liberate their spiritual essence.
According to the Hindu vision attachment to matter, determined by ignorance, It is the source of all suffering. The Yaogdrshn It is intended to implement the separation of Spirit from matter to permanently interrupt the chain of painful reincarnations and achieve liberation the supreme moksha. This objective -primario in the cultural context of the times for the recipients of Yogasutra, ie ascetics who yearned to the definitive interruption of the samsara – risks, if you interpreted literally, to lead to a dangerous cleavage. The text may however validly be repurposed, rereading in terms of freedom from certain modes of life and not from life itself.
The proposed method, l’Ashtngyog, It is however still valuable, because it makes it more self-aware and responsible towards others and the world around. Revisited in these terms, the Yoga It becomes a kind of Master of, life teacher, which causes it to look for the meaning of life and to give him one.
The ethical route is drawn from the first two limbs of’Ashtngyog: yama, the “restrictions” regulating interpersonal relationships, inviting innocence, authenticity, generosity, dedication, essentiality; niyama, the “prescriptions” that favor a more functional relationship with themselves, cultivating purity, contentment, ardor, awareness and enthusiasm.
The exercise of yama and niyama It is a constant internal review of its methods of interaction with others, the world and themselves, and a commitment to the silent testimony of values which translates into facts and not in vaniloquio. The first exercise of silence in Yoga it is precisely to avoid unnecessary words, returning to talk to his dignity as a communicative and expressive instrument, recalling how the word has even been turned into a Goddess in Indian tradition and is considered to be the force that manifests the world. Not only: the letters of the Sanskrit are called “little Mothers”, when you want to allude to their generative power and meaningful.
Marilia Albanian, Tacita Mind, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan, 2016, pp. 16-17
