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    roga

    Devanāgarī: रोग Translation: disease, infirmity, sickness Similar words:rogya Opposite words:aroga, arogya, ārogya Related concepts:cikitsā

    Appears in

    Yoga Rahasya:

    Chapter 1: 84


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    Commentaries around

    “In Veda, Āyurveda and Yoga Sūtra,
    various techniques are offered to aid in healing the sick.
    In addition to herbs and medicines,
    Patañjali suggests that Āsana, Prāṇāyāma and Vairāgya
    are particularly beneficial and, as any medicine,
    should be used with care and discipline.”
    – T Krishnamacharya’s on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 34

    “For curing an illness,
    Prāṇāyāma practice of at least 24 breaths
    should be done several times each day
    – ideally eight times.
    All other unnecessary physical activities should be curtailed.
    Food should be limited to liquids – primarily milk
    and hot, dry foods avoided.
    Breathing practice should be done without the aid of any tools or instruments.”
    –  T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 34

    “It can be said that
    sickness is Citta Vikṣepa
    and health is Citta Nirodha.”
    –  T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 34

    “Depending on whether the mind is in a state of Samādhi or not,
    the person enjoys permanent happiness or
    successive chains of unhappiness and happiness.
    Those who accept nothing short of Samādhi,
    freedom from the suffering of disease is realised.
    After all, the root cause of disease is the disturbed mind,
    when we cannot distinguish right from wrong or good from bad.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 34

    “From this, the role of senses and sense objects
    in causing a ground for disease becomes evident.
    They are chiefly responsible for creating disturbance in the mind.
    Hence the value of Vairāgya insisted as an aid to help the student.
    Otherwise the whole system is sure to reach a state of chaos
    because of the erratic movement of vital energy all over the body.
    To put it another way, disease results from excess of contact
    with objects not conducive to the individual system.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 34

    “There are essentially three causes for fear….
    desire, disease and death.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

    “A person who is physically fit and
    who has been cleansed by the Agni of Dhyānam
    has no fear of sickness, disease, age or death.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Three verse 2

    “According to one’s capability and reference,
    Prāṇāyāma done along with Mantra yields fruits
    in the treatment of all kinds of diseases.”
    – From T Krishnamacharya’s composition,
    the Yoga Rahasya Chapter One verse 84

    “We cannot say that this Āsana or this Prāṇāyāma
    can be given for this disease.”
    – T Krishnamacharya 1984

    “Other causes (of disease), according to Krishnamacharya.
    You either have no faith in God or don’t control your Rāga.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “As teachers we can only confine ourselves to diseases where we have a role to play.
    These are diseases where the mind is involved.
    We work with diseases where a relationship exists between body and mind.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Patañjali does not mention this once.
    He also says that if a person thinks about Īśvara and its presence and omnipotence
    he will avoid problems and not get sick.
    It sounds odd that such a practice will make you avoid sickness.
    It means you will not suffer like others with the Antarāya.
    You will reduce the obstacles, the suffering that accompany sickness.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Different people explain the cause of disease differently.
    In the Yoga Sūtra disease is Vikṣepā, a mind which is unstable.
    Mind loses its presence of mind before an object.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “In Āyurveda, it gives certain behaviour by which we can stay well.
    If a person follows the following he will freer of sickness.
    Regularly, systematically he eats, rests and exercises adequately.
    Both in amount and quality.
    Food or Āhāra, along with Vihāra – recreation, rest, exercise, other activities.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “The purpose of Āsana and Prāṇāyāma are twofold,
    to reduce symptoms of ill-health or,
    to prepare the mind towards fulfilling the
    main emphasis of Patañjali, which is Meditation.
    However according to the teaching I have received,
    both of these roles can be fulfilled with relatively
    few Āsana postures and Prāṇāyāma techniques.”
    – TKV Desikachar Madras 1996

    “Krishnamacharya’s understanding of Cikitsā
    or Yoga therapy and the arrangement and
    sequencing
    of postures, along with modifying
    the posture and using different breathing
    patterns, plus the use of sound and different
    Bhāvana or mental foci was profound.
    This allowed for many possibilities to be
    offered, for a great number of students
    with problems, from a range of relatively
    few postures and breathing techniques.”
    – TKV Desikachar Madras 1996

    “In the Indian tradition,
    stress would be the situation where a person
    exhibits the Udvega, attitudes or behaviour
    which take over a person and control him.
    The origin of the Udvega lies in the Ṣad Ūrmi,
    the six enemies.
    These six are:
    – Kāma: desire
    – Krodha: anger
    – Lobha: possessiveness, greed
    – Moha: darkness;
    though not actually dark it is as if darkness exists
    because the person is so sure of himself
    and his opinions that he is unable to see.
    – Mada: arrogance,
    the refusal to accept or give in.
    – Mātsarya: jealousy,
    to resent the success of others
    and to be happy at their failures.
    These are Āyurveda‘s Mano Roga.
    If any one of these six is dominant in a person,
    that person is sure to experience Udvega in one form or the other.”
    – Yoga Sūtra on Stress – An interview with TKV Desikachar

    “Preventive health is a self-discipline and only a minority
    seeks Yoga as a preventive measure to prevent illness.
    Most people seem to seek Yoga only for therapy.
    But it must be remembered that the essence of Yoga is discipline.
    Essentially it is the discipline of the body,
    it is the discipline of the mind and
    it is also the discipline of the spirit.
    But prevention does not interest people
    even though it is of obvious importance.
    People get interested only when they are in trouble.
    So we now need to develop strategies
    using the salient principles of Yoga practice,
    so that it can be adapted to people with specific problems.”
    YOGA: SURGERY SANS INSTRUMENTS
    – Interview with TKV Desikachar from ‘The Hindu’ 1998

    “My own father, Krishnamacharya,
    started using Yoga for sickness,
    even before his journey to Tibet.”
    – TKV Desikachar

    “As a Yoga therapist,
    focus on increasing people’s quality of life,
    not on curing diseases.”
    – TKV Desikachar

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