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Yoga is an Exact Science based on certain immutable laws of nature. Yoga is control of mind and it’s modifications. It helps in attaining liberation and Divinity. Yoga kills all sorts of pains, miseries and tribulation. It gives you freedom from the round of births and deaths with its concomitant evils of disease, old age etc., and bestows upon you all the divine powers and final liberation through Super Intuitional knowledge. Yoga makes you immortal. It is a system of integral education – education not only of the body and mind but also of the Inner Spirit. Yoga shows you the marvelous method of rising from the badness to goodness, from goodness to Godliness and then to Eternal Divine Splendor. Yoga does not require a turning away from material life. It demands Spiritualization of life. The practice of Yoga is not opposed to any religion. It is purely spiritual and universal. It does not contradict anyone’s sincere faith. Yoga is not a religion but an aid to the practice of the basic spiritual truths in all religions. The founder of the Yoga philosophy was Patanjali Maharishi who was not only a philosopher and a Yogi but a physician as well. He has compiled the Yoga system in an elaborate way for the benefit of human beings. There are four different paths to achieve the goal of God realization. They are :
Karma Yoga is suitable for a person of active temperament. Bhakti Yoga for a person of emotional temperament. Janana Yoga for a person of will or reason. Raja Yoga for a person of mystic temperament. There are also three other forms of Yoga in addition to the four mentioned above. These are :-
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