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Thursday, September 6, 1973
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Fifteen
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Yoga:
By PETER La FRENIERE Part a
Ann Arbor hosts an incredible the fact
amount of activity concerning yoga ha
one of the most useful of all suitable
Eastern disciplines: yoga. For ties andt
most of its students it becomes a and intel
whole new way of life. To beg
The Sanskrit word "yoga" has yoga is;
become a household term word its
throughout the West today. Un- it mean
fortunately . misconceptions pre- it has"
vail, and the word has taken on English
many different meanings. a unioni
'The
ancient
art
of
living
f the confusion lies in well as the idea of to "place one-
that various types of self under yoke."
ve evolved which are
for individual personali-
psychological, emotional,
lectual makeups.
gin to understand what
one should inspect the
elf. In common parlance
s "method." Technically
the same basis as the
word "yoke," signifying
or "joining together" as
Thus yoga is a methodical dis-
cipline designed to release (vi-
yog) the individual from the
illusory (maya), and unite him
with the real (Brahman). It
therefore implies the search for
the transcendental and divine
essence latent, not only in man,
but in every living entity.
YOGA IS THE ancient art of
living. We learn from the
Bhagavad-Gita, often called In-
dia's Bible, that Krishna (the
Supreme Person or God) re-
spoke this ancient practice of
yoga to his friend and disciple
Arjuna around 3000 B.C.
The other authoritative source
for understanding yoga is Patan-
jali, who expounded the system in
his Yoga Sutras sometime before
the Christian era.
Of the six ancient schools of
orthodox Indian thought, yoga,
along with Vedanta, remains rel-
evant today.
The Bhagavad-Gita mentions
as many as 18 systems of yoga
but basically deals with four
main types of yoga, all of which
blend together to create a har-
monious unity. Quite simply,
karma yoga is for the active,
jnana for the intellectual, raja.
for the meditative, and bhakti
for the loving and devotional.
Actually it is not as foreign
as it sounds. Christ, for instance,
taught what is called bhakti ac-
cording to yoga terminology.
ASTANGA YOGA or the eight-
fold path taught by Patanjali is
more ,strenuous, and the result,
though not as surely achieved
(because of the difficulty in-
volved in practice), is virtually
the same.
Ann Arbor is ideal for pursuing
one of these paths, for practically
every well known system and
modern master of yoga is repre-
sented here.
At the Rudrananda Yogashram
(an Indian, monastary) there are
experienced teachers of both
hatha and kundalini. In hatha
(will power) yoga, a part of
Pataij ali' s system, the student
learns control of the body as a
means of stilling the mind. Ac-
tually hatha aims at perfecting
the body as a means for achiev-
ing higher types of yoga.
Kundalini or "serpent" refers
to the energy lying dormant at
the spinal root-center. The aim
of this type of yoga is to awaken
and bring into full play this
energy eventually gaining full
control over it.
THE UNIVERSAL Great
Brotherhood, founded in 1948 by
Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere,
is represented on campus by Bob
Levy. It is a South American-
based spiritual group which
unites astrology, yoga, science,
art, religion, education and hu-
manitarianism in order to pro-
mote intellectual betterment and
spiritual re-education.
The group regularly holds
classes in hatha yoga and as-
trology and takes an active in-
terest in the Esoteric Studies
Group of Ann Arbor.
The Krishna Yoga Society is a
non-sectarian local group dealing
with the four main yogas set
down by Krishna in the Gita.
The activities range from chang-
ing, dancing, and feasting to
lectures and discussions.
Occasionally the society will
sponsor different teachers who
stop over in Ann Arbor or hold
classes in Indian dance, drama,
music, or cooking.
The discipline also involves
mantra meditation, as taught by
Swami Bhaktivedanta of the
Vaisnava tradition, stemming
from Lord Krishna himself.
MEETINGS OF the Ruhani
Satsang group consist of the
practice of Surat Shabd Yoga
or "the yoga of the celestial
sound current." Activities in-
clude listening to tapes and read-
ing the works of their reknowned
teacher Kirpal Singh, who gives
a comprehensive account of com-
parative yoga.
The Integral Yoga Institute will
begin anew in Ann Arbor in
September. Their teacher, Swami
Satchidananda, incorporates the
different practices of yoga in an
effort to create a healthy body,
selfless service, a dynamic will
and a realization of the Higher
Self as an aspect of the Divine.
The Students International Me-
ditation Society is solely dedi-
cated to making available to
more people the practice of trans
cendental meditation as . taught
by Maharishi Yogi (the Beatles')
former teacher), along with his
theory of the science of creative
intelligence.
Using the techniques of karma
and jnana yoga, Dick Ahern is
proceeding with the planning
stages to form an ecologically
and spiritually sound community
named Arborvitae (Tree of Life).
FOR THOSE who are interest-
ed in discovering more about
themselves through contact with
these groups, the Office-of Ethics
and Religion on the third floor
of the Michigan Union provides a
source of up-to-date information.
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