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The Four Yogas

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The Four Yogas Yoga is the union of  body , mind, and spirit—the union of your individuality with the divine intelligence that orchestrates the universe. Yoga is a state of being in which the elements and forces that comprise your biological organism are in harmonious interaction with the elements of the cosmos. Established in this state, you will experience enhanced emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being and will increasingly notice the spontaneous fulfillment of your desires. In yoga—in union with spirit—your desires and the desires of nature are one. As you participate in the process of creativity along with the infinite being, your worries fall away and you feel a sense of lightheartedness and joy. There is a spontaneous blossoming of intuition, insight, imagination, creativity, meaning, and purpose. You make correct choices that benefit not only you but also everyone affected by your choices. Traditionally, there are four forms of  yoga : Gyan, Bhakti, Karma, and Raja.

what is Yoga and its history

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What is Yoga   The popular notions of yoga that are fed to us through the media are not actually defining what yoga is. Now if we take yoga as a spiritual process, and really break it up, it's just teaching us - that we need to use our mind, body, and our spirit to ascend to a higher purpose in our life. And if we see yoga from that perspective, it's genuinely a process of self-development and growth. Yoga is not only a practice but to really understand what yoga is and what it's true definition and purpose is, as defined in the ancient Indian text books. So yoga truly is san inseparable part of Indian  ancient civilisation. So even thousands of years ago, Yogic culture existed in the Mohenjo-Daro and Harappan civilisation on the banks of the river Sindhu. So as a result, all the people that lived in the area, were in used to living yoga a s lifestyle. So even if you look at the historic seals of the Harappan civilization you will see people sitting in the meditative post