First Foundations for the Practitioner of the Integral Yoga

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Patanjali is Raja, yoga outlines
a series of steps or stages in

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the development of that
particular path.

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The first two are Yama and
niyama which outlined certain

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purification actions to prepare
the practitioner for the later.

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Activities and experiences in
the yogic practice these two

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limbs together.
Represent a solidifying of

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Peace, the removal of obstacles
that can disturb the mind.

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The emotions, the nervous sheath
and the body.

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The result is a peaceful and
harmonious energy and a solid

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strength to avoid being
distracted or disturbed with a

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calming of the basic mind stuff
chitta as a preliminary basis

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for the practice of Raja yoga.
This also helps maintain the

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balance needed to avoid mental,
emotional or nervous.

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Breakdowns as the higher forces,
begin to act and manifest openly

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in the being as the yogic
process progresses.

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The subsequent two limbs are
Asana and pranayama.

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Also not provides the solid seat
upon which The yogic Experience

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rests.
It does not refer only to the

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physical posture, but to the
seat of Consciousness in the

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being to ensure stability and
solidity, as the forces acting

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in the being increased and
intensify pranayama, involves

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balancing the breathing process
to bring a state of Harmony.

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And Equanimity to the being And
to gain control over the mental

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and emotional processes which
are intimately linked to the

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flow of The Prana.
In the being all four of these

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steps in Raja yoga represent,
purification Tori and

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Preparatory, stage has to allow
the further four steps to bear

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fruit without harming or
destroying the body, the life

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energy, or the mind of the
practitioner.

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Although it could be said that
the advanced forms of pranayama

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are not simply prepare ettore
but are actually an

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implementation stage in the
yogic process.

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SRI aurobindo writes, quote, the
Rousey Yogi's are right in

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putting purification in front of
everything as I was also, right?

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And putting it in front along
with concentration, in the

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synthesis of yoga.
You have only to look about you

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to see that experiences and even
realizations cannot bring one to

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the goal.
If this is not done at any

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moment, they can fall owing to
the vital still being impure.

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Or and full of ego Equanimity
and peace.

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In all conditions in all parts
of the being is the first

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foundation of the yogic status.
Peace is the first condition

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without which nothing else can
be stable and quote.

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Reference SRI aurobindo and the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development,
chapter for growth of

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Consciousness.
First steps and Foundation page

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62.