Yoga okulları

Tüm yoga okulları aynı amaç gösterir:

- Beden, zihin ve ruhun birleşme,

- İçel barış, huzur, denge ve mutlulukla tekrar kavuşma,

- "Nihai" hedefe ulaşma: bireysel bilincin evrensel bilinç’le bütünleşmesidir.

Yoga'nın dört ana, temel okul vardır:

Raja yoga

Karma yoga

Jnana yoga

Bakti yoga

Bu dört ana okullar içlerinde alt okullara vardır:

Mesela Raja yoga: Hata yoga, Kundalini yoga, Sahaja yoga, Kriya yoga

Raja yoga
 

Patanjali adlı yoginin yazdığı "Yoga Sutra"'da Raja yoga sekiz aşama oluştuğu gösteriyor.

1. Yama - Ahlaksal disiplindir, beş bölümden oluşur:

Ahimsa (düşünce, keleme, konüşmak ve eylem sırasında şiddetsizlik uygulamak),

Satya (Kendimize ve başkalarına dürüst olmak), Asteya (Çalmama), Brahma Charya (nefsine hakim olmak), Aparigraha (Aç gözlü olmama, istifçilik yapma).

2. Niyama - İçsel, öz disiplindir, beş bölümden oluşur:

Shaucha (Bütün seviyelerde saflık, arınmak), Santosha (Halinden memnun olma), Tapas (Ateşli istek, çalışma, disiplin), Svadyaya (Okumak, murakabe),

Ishwara pranidhana (Alçak gönüllülük).

3. Asana: Bedensel duruluşlarıdır.

4. Pranayama: Prana kontrol edebilme disiplindir. Çeşitli, solunumu denetleme yöntemlerini içerir.

5. Pratyahara: dikkatin dış dünyadan iç dünyaya yönlendirilmesidir.

6. Dharana: Meditasyon nesnesine odaklanmaktadır.

7. Dhyana: Zihnin tam olarak kontrol altına almaktır.

8. Samadhi: Bireysel bilincin evrensel bilinç’le bütünleşmesidir.

Karma yoga

Karma yoga is related in bhagavatha Gita where Krishna says:

You can have the freedom of change attitude behind any action (Karma) or non-action A-Karma) by discipline at the mind level. To make an activity without waiting for the result, the good activity have always a good result but you may not see it during your life.  And to not do reaction (Vikarma).
The creation can be divided in three Gunas:

Tamas – Rajas – Sattva

“All the activities are also divided according the Gunas”

There is no any Gunas better than an other one, there are all necessary in the creation, in the actions and in our life.
Recognize the nature inside and take the work according to your nature.
Recognize the nature outside and respect the nature of the work outside.

“The Gunas are not the problem, but our attachment to  them gives suffering.”
We should have freedom to act in harmony with the world outside where is necessery.

Jnana yoga

 

Jnana yoga is the yoga of knowledge, but the knowledge in the way that it will help us when we have a problem to solve. By using the intellect we will analyse this problem so we will be abble to let go, to get freedom of it and have therefore peace of mind.

Jnana yoga understand that the psychological lows are not rigid, and that it is in our hand to get disturb or not get disturb about any situation.

You can have the freedom to not be a slave of the emotional power as anger, jalousy, sadness,…

You should have the freedom to use them carefully when it is needing to change an outside situation.

We all have as well the freedom to do or not to and to do or do in a different way.

Bakti yoga

Bhakti yoga inquires about what is experience of our happiness.

By understanding that when we complain we are not happy, it means that with tolerance I’ll be happy.

Bhakti yoga inquire deeper and find that tolerence is not enought, but acceptance will give more happiness. By going one step further it understand that depper that acceptance we can appreciate and that deeper that appreciate we can love. Love elevates us, love is our nature.

When we love all the senses are put together satisfied. Love belong to consciousness. In the state of love there is no complain. In state of love you become consciousness.