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1. Krishna's consort
Last act performed before the yogi actually chooses to leave his body and turns thrice - faces north and his spirit leaves the body.
Radha
Govinda - cow finder.
The Mahabharata (GREAT STORY). The Bhagavad Gita is incorporated within the Mahabharata as one of the episodes.

2. Advaita Vedanta
Non-dualism. Based on the Upanishads. Two main branches Radical - taught by Shankara - and Qualified - taught by Ramanuja.
Ganesh - the pot belly elephant face God and the removal of all obstacles.
Non-dual - end of the Vedas
1. Ahimsa-non violence 2. Satya-truth 3. Asteya-non stealing 4. Brahmacharya - abstinence 5. Aparigraha - non hoarding

3. What are the three synomyns of classical yoga
Ashtanga - Raja - Patanjala
Mahavatar Babaji - Lahiri Mahasaya - Swami Sri Yukteswar - Paramahansa Yogananda - Bishnu Ghosh
Founder of the Kaula Branch of Tantra and the Natha sect.
Knowledge. The oldest portion and the most sacred scriptures of Hinduism. A collection of hymns said to be intuited by the ancient seers of sages. These hymns or songs - were secrets of the universe - why are we here? Oldest composition in the world.

4. What does Purusha mean?
It means ear splitting. They would split both ears and wear very large earrings which is said to invoke the Yoga Siddhis powers.
Spirit
To weave - loom or extend - very non judgmental - they embraced everyone with an open mind.
Forceful yoga.

5. What does Dhrana mean?
Concentration
DUALISM. (DVAITA=DUALISM - VEDANTA=after the VEDAS) - 'DUALISM THAT OCCURRED AFTER The VEDAS' THIS was the philosophy espoused by Patanjali. Separate CONSCiousness and Matter or PURUSHA (SPIRIT) seen as separate from PRAKRITI (NATURE). FROM this view
Means 'to sit near'. There were traditionally 108 Upanishads. Epiphanies of the VEDAS They were interpretations of the VEDAS
Rig - Atharva - Yahjur - Sama

6. What is KARMA Yoga

7. Name the Barkan Method Lineage.
1. Saucha-sacredness or purity 2. Santosha-contentment 3. Tapas-discipline 4. Swadhyaya-self study or introspection 5. Ishvara Pranidhana-Dedication to God
Mahavatar Babaji - Lahiri Mahasaya - Swami Sri Yukteswar - Paramahansa Yogananda - Bishnu Ghosh
God - the absolute - the expansion - quantum source.
From the 8-fold path of BUDHISM

8. CLASSICAL Yoga CONCEPTS
Spoken of in Pre-Classical times (1000 BCE-100 BCE) in Krishna's lesson to Arjuna in the BHAGAVAD GITA. The path of RIGHT ACTION. Through our TAPAS (disciplines - austerities) - you start to burn your - Karma. HATHA Yoga is KARMA Yoga
Pingala - Eda and Sushumna
Pat; fallen or transfer. Anjali; greeting.
From 100 CE-500 CE there was PATANJALI who authored the Yoga SUTRAS. He spoke about the 8 limb path and was the first to systematize the teachings of Yoga. PATANJALI gave Yoga its Classic FORM

9. Why was Goraksha given his name?
Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodhah.
The legend starts when a peasant woman asks Shiva for a son. He gives her ash to eat which will induce pregnancy. She throws the gift into a dung-heap. Twelve years later Matsyendra goes to see the child. After telling what she had done - Matsyendra
The masculine-feminine force of the Universe - the fundamental creative principle of existence. Shiva without Shakti is unable to affect anything. Just as the moon does not shine without moonlight - so also Shiva does not shine without Shakti.
Concentration

10. The Brahman
Means 'to sit near'. There were traditionally 108 Upanishads. Epiphanies of the VEDAS They were interpretations of the VEDAS
A 'chosen deity.' This meant that you believed you could meditate on a deity such as Shiva - Krishna - Ganesh or Lakshmi and then actually merge with and become that deity.
Shiva was lecturing his wife Parvati about the secrets of Tantra yoga and Parvati was asleep. Matsyendra heard the teachings from the belly of a huge fish and Shiva then states he knows who is real disciple is. 12 years later the fish is caught and M
God - the absolute - the expansion - quantum source.

11. Yoga SUTRAS
It means Lord pertaining to the Yoga adepts. It was from the Natha sect that Hatha Yoga developed.
SUTRA=suture/thread. These are 195 aphorisms which cover many aspects of Yoga: transformation of consciousness - paranormal powers (SIDDHIS) - the eight limb path (ASHTANGA) and higher stages of yoga - liberation. Written on palm leaves and tied toge
The Yogin's spiritual path. CLASSICAL YOGIS did not believe in deep exploration of the physical world or their bodies. These things were seen as a gross distraction from theirr spiritual path.
Enlightenment - ecstasy - absorption

12. What is Nirbikalpa Samadhi
To weave - loom or extend - very non judgmental - they embraced everyone with an open mind.
Non-dualism. Based on the Upanishads. Two main branches Radical - taught by Shankara - and Qualified - taught by Ramanuja.
A higher state of consciousness in which the yogi communes with God in an ordinary walking state - even performing worldly duties. Without difference. The yogi feels there is a slight separation from God. In Nirbikalpa there is no separation from God
Last act performed before the yogi actually chooses to leave his body and turns thrice - faces north and his spirit leaves the body.

13. Sabikalpa Samadhi

14. What is a Dvaita

15. What is the 'breakdown -' or meaning of Patanjali's name
Spoken of in Pre-Classical times (1000 BCE-100 BCE) in Krishna's lesson to Arjuna in the BHAGAVAD GITA. The path of RIGHT ACTION. Through our TAPAS (disciplines - austerities) - you start to burn your - Karma. HATHA Yoga is KARMA Yoga
Pat; fallen or transfer. Anjali; greeting.
From the 8-fold path of BUDHISM
Matsya (fish) Kurma (tortoise) Varaha (boar) Nara-Simba (lion) Vamana or Bamana - dwarf or short man. First human incarnation. Parusha-Rama (Rama with an Axe) Rama (dark or pleasing one). Main character in Rama and Sita. Krishna (also known as Govind

16. What does Pranyama mean?
Extend the life force
The Path of Wisdom - 'embodying the scriptures. investing in study
They considered the body to be a distraction from their spiritual path (Sadhana). Even though they practiced asana as a preliminary step to stay healthy - they frown upon the Tantric approach of Hatha Yoga which uses the body as vehicle to reach enli
It means the Lord's Song. The book of Psalms. The popular Yoga scripture containing the teachings of Lord Krishna to Arjuna.

17. What was unique about the Kaula branch of Tantra yoga
The story of Rama and Sita. It is considered the Genesis and the most popular romantic story in all of India. Hanumat - or Hanuman the Monkey Leader - slay the forest demon - Ravana - and rescues his wife Sita.
Yama - Niyama - Asana - Pranayama - Pratyahara - Dhrana - Dhyana - Samadhi
It was a combination of the Right and Left path. It had a strong presence of the Shakti element both in manifesting the feminine Shakti - and the presence of women in the role of consorts and initiators.
Sarasvati - The Goddess of knowledge - speech and the fine arts - also the name of an extinct river in India.

18. What is Maha Samadhi
Last act performed before the yogi actually chooses to leave his body and turns thrice - faces north and his spirit leaves the body.
Cow Protector
Extend the life force
To prepare the yogi for meditation.

19. Name the Niyama's and their meanings
Ganesh - the pot belly elephant face God and the removal of all obstacles.
1. Saucha-sacredness or purity 2. Santosha-contentment 3. Tapas-discipline 4. Swadhyaya-self study or introspection 5. Ishvara Pranidhana-Dedication to God
The Mahabharata (GREAT STORY). The Bhagavad Gita is incorporated within the Mahabharata as one of the episodes.
Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodhah.

20. What is the Ramayana
The story of Rama and Sita. It is considered the Genesis and the most popular romantic story in all of India. Hanumat - or Hanuman the Monkey Leader - slay the forest demon - Ravana - and rescues his wife Sita.
The Path of Devotion. (Hare Krishnas - for example)
'living liberated' The adept who is liberated or enlightened while still embodied. This is a non-dualistic ideal - that when 'self realization occurs - liberation will come'. The Bhagavad-Gita describes Jivan-Mukta
To weave - loom or extend - very non judgmental - they embraced everyone with an open mind.

21. What is Advaita-Vedanta
Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodhah.
Mahavatar Babaji - Lahiri Mahasaya - Swami Sri Yukteswar - Paramahansa Yogananda - Bishnu Ghosh
Non-dualism. Based on the Upanishads. Two main branches Radical - taught by Shankara - and Qualified - taught by Ramanuja.
Author of the Yoga sutras (source text of Classical Yoga) and the 8 Limb Path

22. What is Nirbikalpa Samadhi
The story of Rama and Sita. It is considered the Genesis and the most popular romantic story in all of India. Hanumat - or Hanuman the Monkey Leader - slay the forest demon - Ravana - and rescues his wife Sita.
Non-dualism. Based on the Upanishads. Two main branches Radical - taught by Shankara - and Qualified - taught by Ramanuja.
A higher state of consciousness in which the yogi communes with God in an ordinary walking state - even performing worldly duties. Without difference. The yogi feels there is a slight separation from God. In Nirbikalpa there is no separation from God
The state in which the yogi becomes breathless - with difference - the life force is withdrawn from the body and the yogi appears dead or motionless and rigid. The yogi is fully aware of his condition but it is a temporary state and he has a glimpse

23. What was Patanjali the author of?
The Path of Wisdom - 'embodying the scriptures. investing in study
RIG VEDA - ATHARVA VEDA - Jahjur VEDA - SAMA VEDA
The Yoga Sutras - The 8 Limb Path
Patanjali

24. What is the main idea of the Bhagavad Gita?

25. PARUSHA and PAKRITI
Sarasvati - The Goddess of knowledge - speech and the fine arts - also the name of an extinct river in India.
Non-dual - end of the Vedas
SPIRIT and NATURE/CONSCIOUSNESS and MATTER
Matsya (fish) Kurma (tortoise) Varaha (boar) Nara-Simba (lion) Vamana or Bamana - dwarf or short man. First human incarnation. Parusha-Rama (Rama with an Axe) Rama (dark or pleasing one). Main character in Rama and Sita. Krishna (also known as Govind

26. What does Dhyana mean?
Universal morality
God - the absolute - the expansion - quantum source.
Meditation
From the 8-fold path of BUDHISM

27. DVAITA VEDANTA

28. Who is Goraksha?
1000-100 BCE. All ABOUT NON-DUALISM
ASHTANGA Yoga - PATANJALI Yoga - RAJA Yoga
He was a disciple of Matsyendra and the originator of Hatha Yoga. Shiva told Matsyendra he would reincarnate as his disciple.
The Path of Devotion. (Hare Krishnas - for example)

29. What was Patanjali the author of?
'living liberated' The adept who is liberated or enlightened while still embodied. This is a non-dualistic ideal - that when 'self realization occurs - liberation will come'. The Bhagavad-Gita describes Jivan-Mukta
Spirit
A higher state of consciousness in which the yogi communes with God in an ordinary walking state - even performing worldly duties. Without difference. The yogi feels there is a slight separation from God. In Nirbikalpa there is no separation from God
The Yoga Sutras - The 8 Limb Path

30. Who is Matysendra
KNOWLEDGE
Sita
Personal observances or restraints
Founder of the Kaula Branch of Tantra and the Natha sect.

31. What is the Ramayana
1. Ahimsa-non violence 2. Satya-truth 3. Asteya-non stealing 4. Brahmacharya - abstinence 5. Aparigraha - non hoarding
The story of Rama and Sita. It is considered the Genesis and the most popular romantic story in all of India. Hanumat - or Hanuman the Monkey Leader - slay the forest demon - Ravana - and rescues his wife Sita.
He believed in a non-dualistic approach (Advaita-Vedanta) that the only reality is a spiritual world. He believed in an 'Abstract idea of who God is.' He challenged Patanjali's concept of separate realities. His concept was that Prakritti (nature) wa
Hymns sung and passed down from Brahman to Brahman. The RIG VEDA first mentions Yoga

32. Vishnu's Counterpart

33. What major work is the Pre-Classical ERA of Yoga known for?
Founder of the school of qualified non-dualism. (Vashista Advaita). He challenged Patanjali's believe that God was abstract. This means that he believed the spiritual world had qualities - such as a deity or the trimuti. (Bhakti yogi - Devotion to Go
The Mahabharata (GREAT STORY). The Bhagavad Gita is incorporated within the Mahabharata as one of the episodes.
Parvati (also known as Uma - The mother of Ganesh - She represents the female energy of the Universe - Parvati also means the highest mountain peak in Sanskrit.
Personal observances or restraints

34. WHY did Patanjali choose 8 limbs?
The Yogin's spiritual path. CLASSICAL YOGIS did not believe in deep exploration of the physical world or their bodies. These things were seen as a gross distraction from theirr spiritual path.
Patanjali's DUALISTIC approach (DVAITA VEDANTA) allows only for this kind of SAMADHI. This is SAMADHI with DIFFERENCE (BIKALPA) - ie
From the 8-fold path of BUDHISM
It was a combination of the Right and Left path. It had a strong presence of the Shakti element both in manifesting the feminine Shakti - and the presence of women in the role of consorts and initiators.

35. Who is Shankara?

36. What is Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodhah?
Arguably the most famous Sutra which means - Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.
Dualism or 'two.'
Rig - Atharva - Yahjur - Sama
Pat; fallen or transfer. Anjali; greeting.

37. What does Purusha mean?
Brahma- The Creator Vishnu- The Sustainer Shiva- The Destroyer
Spirit
Last act performed before the yogi actually chooses to leave his body and turns thrice - faces north and his spirit leaves the body.
ASHTANGA Yoga - PATANJALI Yoga - RAJA Yoga

38. PARUSHA and PAKRITI
Concentration
SPIRIT and NATURE/CONSCIOUSNESS and MATTER
Founder of the Kaula Branch of Tantra and the Natha sect.
Sabikalpa - Nirbikalpa - Maha

39. Name the 8 Limb Path
Founder of the school of qualified non-dualism. (Vashista Advaita). He challenged Patanjali's believe that God was abstract. This means that he believed the spiritual world had qualities - such as a deity or the trimuti. (Bhakti yogi - Devotion to Go
Yama - Niyama - Asana - Pranayama - Pratyahara - Dhrana - Dhyana - Samadhi
Arguably the most famous Sutra which means - Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.
The Mahabharata (GREAT STORY). The Bhagavad Gita is incorporated within the Mahabharata as one of the episodes.

40. Who is Patanjali
PAT=FALLEN; SHAKTI PAT=FALLEN ENERGY
Author of the Yoga sutras (source text of Classical Yoga) and the 8 Limb Path
Spirit
Patanjali favored a dualistic philosophy that separates Consciousness and Matter - or Spirit: Purusha and nature: Prakriti. They believed in two separate realities. While still in the physical body the yogin can only glimpse upon the Divine and in hi

41. The Vedic Age
Withdraw from the senses and eliminate distraction from the outside world.
SUTRA=suture/thread. These are 195 aphorisms which cover many aspects of Yoga: transformation of consciousness - paranormal powers (SIDDHIS) - the eight limb path (ASHTANGA) and higher stages of yoga - liberation. Written on palm leaves and tied toge
To weave - loom or extend - very non judgmental - they embraced everyone with an open mind.
4500-2500 BCE

42. What does Asana mean
Seat
DUALISM. (DVAITA=DUALISM - VEDANTA=after the VEDAS) - 'DUALISM THAT OCCURRED AFTER The VEDAS' THIS was the philosophy espoused by Patanjali. Separate CONSCiousness and Matter or PURUSHA (SPIRIT) seen as separate from PRAKRITI (NATURE). FROM this view
Withdraw from the senses and eliminate distraction from the outside world.
1.Matsya (fish) - 2. Kurma (tortoise) - 4. Nara-Simha (lion) 5. VAMANA or BAMANA (DWARF)=the first human incarnation of Vishnu - 6. Rama with an AX - 7. RAMA 8. KRISHNA (GOVINDA) - 9. BUDDHA (the awakened one) - 10> Kalki (the AVATAR yet to come)

43. What does Pratyahara mean?
Matsya (fish) Kurma (tortoise) Varaha (boar) Nara-Simba (lion) Vamana or Bamana - dwarf or short man. First human incarnation. Parusha-Rama (Rama with an Axe) Rama (dark or pleasing one). Main character in Rama and Sita. Krishna (also known as Govind
Patanjali's DUALISTIC approach (DVAITA VEDANTA) allows only for this kind of SAMADHI. This is SAMADHI with DIFFERENCE (BIKALPA) - ie
Withdraw from the senses and eliminate distraction from the outside world.
God - the absolute - the expansion - quantum source.

44. Name the Yama's and their meanings
They considered the body to be a distraction from their spiritual path (Sadhana). Even though they practiced asana as a preliminary step to stay healthy - they frown upon the Tantric approach of Hatha Yoga which uses the body as vehicle to reach enli
1. Ahimsa-non violence 2. Satya-truth 3. Asteya-non stealing 4. Brahmacharya - abstinence 5. Aparigraha - non hoarding
Founder of the school of qualified non-dualism. (Vashista Advaita). He challenged Patanjali's believe that God was abstract. This means that he believed the spiritual world had qualities - such as a deity or the trimuti. (Bhakti yogi - Devotion to Go
Matsyendra and Goraksha

45. Name the Yama's and their meanings
Spoken of in Pre-Classical times (1000 BCE-100 BCE) in Krishna's lesson to Arjuna in the BHAGAVAD GITA. The path of RIGHT ACTION. Through our TAPAS (disciplines - austerities) - you start to burn your - Karma. HATHA Yoga is KARMA Yoga
It was a combination of the Right and Left path. It had a strong presence of the Shakti element both in manifesting the feminine Shakti - and the presence of women in the role of consorts and initiators.
1. Ahimsa-non violence 2. Satya-truth 3. Asteya-non stealing 4. Brahmacharya - abstinence 5. Aparigraha - non hoarding
Classical Yoga around 300-400 BCE

46. What does Vashista mean?
Yogash Citta Vritti Nirodhah.
To prepare the yogi for meditation.
Forceful Yoga. The yoga of physical discipline - aiming at the awakening of the serpent power (kundalini shakti).
Qualified non-dualist

47. JIVAN MUKTA

48. Who are the two most outstanding Nathas?
Extend the life force
Matsyendra and Goraksha
The Yogin's spiritual path. CLASSICAL YOGIS did not believe in deep exploration of the physical world or their bodies. These things were seen as a gross distraction from theirr spiritual path.
Seat

49. The UPANISHADIC AGE
Means 'to sit near'. There were traditionally 108 Upanishads. Epiphanies of the VEDAS They were interpretations of the VEDAS
Classical Yoga around 300-400 BCE
Govinda - cow finder.
1500-1000 BCE

50. BHAKTI Yoga
Last act performed before the yogi actually chooses to leave his body and turns thrice - faces north and his spirit leaves the body.
Non-dualism. Based on the Upanishads. Two main branches Radical - taught by Shankara - and Qualified - taught by Ramanuja.
The Path of Devotion. (Hare Krishnas - for example)
Seat