What is the relationship between Sanskrit, yoga and Sanskrit?
What is the relationship between yoga and Sanskrit?
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Yoga has a very profound relationship with Sanskrit. Yoga originated in India. Yoga was recorded as early as 8,000 years ago in historical documents. At that time, yoga scriptures were written in Sanskrit, such as Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, Flail Sanskrit, Upanishads and Vedas. And at that time, yoga had no asana, only meditation and meditation. Later, after being sorted out by Patanjali, the founder of yoga, yoga gradually became a system, dividing yoga into eight branches.
1. Ring making (Yama)
two。 Internal (Niyama)
3. Asana (Asana)
4. Respiratory control (Pranayama)
5. Make sense (Pratyahara)
6. Focus (Dharana)
7. Meditation (Dhyana)
8. Samadhi (Samadhi)
Please see that the letters above are all written in Sanskrit. In India, yoga is a philosophical system, and there is a yoga university, a formal discipline, you can get master's and doctoral degrees, and Sanskrit is a compulsory course. There are also various yoga training schools among the people, and Sanskrit is the foundation for learning yoga, and teachers' passwords for yoga classes are all in Sanskrit, so people who have studied yoga abroad generally have a certain Sanskrit basis, because this is a threshold for learning yoga.
It is necessary to learn yoga chanting in India, such as Krishna chanting, Gothrimandala, Patanjali chanting and so on. Each yoga practice must be chanted in Sanskrit before the asana begins. And the Sanskrit name of the asana must be spoken when doing each asana, because for yogis, Sanskrit chanting and Sanskrit reading is an audible meditation. Sanskrit is an elegant, pure or perfect form of expression, not secular language. It can help us calm our hearts and open up our wisdom. Meditation is a very important part of yoga, and Sanskrit chanting and recitation is to help us enter the realm of meditation.
However, after yoga was introduced into China, most people only practiced the most basic one of the eight branches of yoga-asana. They had no knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy and meditation. Many businessmen put yoga commercialized to achieve profit tools such as weight loss, slimming, fitness and so on, which runs counter to the most original yoga.
Because yoga is more about the inner and spiritual connotation of practice. Although many people think that yoga is the performance of asanas, the asanas of martial arts athletes, gymnasts and acrobats are quite standard, with more than a dozen somersaults in a row, and all kinds of difficult asanas are not a problem. the flexibility and muscle strength of the body are many times higher than those of yogis, but they may not be able to become yoga teachers, because yoga is more practiced in their hearts.
If you like yoga, then you can try to learn some names of Sanskrit chanting and yoga-Vatican asana. When you seriously do each yoga pose, and you can pronounce the name of this pose in Sanskrit, you can have a deeper understanding of the spirit of yoga, and realize that yoga brings great changes to your body both inside and outside, as well as the wisdom and spiritual opening of your mind.