What is Yoga?

"Yoga is a not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritence of present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tommorow."  (Swami Satyananda Saraswati.)

I think Yoga is a vast treasure of techniques that have a beneficial effect on the body, the mind and our emotions that lead to the uncovering of our latent potentials.

Yoga is an ancient system of philosophy, lifestyle and techniques that evolves the whole person, the physical, the mental and the realization of the spiritual reality of each one of us.

"Peace and happiness can be found only within. You cannot certainly find it in external objects. Wealth, women, children, property, palatial buildings cannot give you everlasting Peace. Look within. Realise your oneness with that One Supreme Self, who lives in the chambers of your heart. When you are established in That, which is an ocean of Peace and Happiness, you will not be shaken even by heavy sorrow, loss or failures, inharmonious and disagreeable vibrations. You will tide over all difficulties or crises of life very easily and will come back with triumph in all experiences. Mysterious is this Peace! Marvellous is this Peace! Realise this Peace that passeth all understanding through Yoga Sadhna and be free. Float in this ocean of Peace and rejoice in the Peace of your own Self."  (Swami Sivananda, Divine Life Society)

Yoga

योग के आठ अंग हैं, जिन्हें अष्टांग योग के नाम से जाना जाता है !  यम, नियम, आसन, प्राणायाम, प्रत्याहार, धारणा, ध्यान, समाधी !
Yoga consists of eightfold path, the Ashtaanga Yoga. Yam, Niyam, Asana, Pranayam, Pratyahaar, Dhaarna, Dhyana and Samadhi.

शरीरमाद्यं खलु धर्मसाधनम !
This body is the means of performing all the duties.

योगो भवति दुःखहा !
Yoga is the destroyer of all sorrows and sufferings.