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How Well Do You Use Yoga?

Want to know how to overcome suffering?

Yoga can help with daily problems. Yoga devotees find  that the way to overcome most maladies of life is through contact with Spirit. Meditation shows the way. Discover the five main causes of suffering and how to overcome them through yoga.

Essential Life Skills, Afflictions / Kleshas

Contact with Spirit

The only way we know to overcome the maladies of life is to establish contact with the Ultimate Reality. That’s how you use yoga well. You establish contact with the Ultimate Reality, Spirit. The main practice to contact the Ultimate Reality is meditation. Meditation includes focus, concentration, contemplation, continuation and samadhi, absorption in the one Spirit.

  • Yoga helps us face and solve our problems
  • Swami Adiswarananda in Meditation and Its Practices advises us to face the problems of life through the knowledge of Spirit
  • The cause of most problems is the ignorance of Spirit, which is the main reality and our true essence
  • Learn the five main causes of suffering and discover how to live a better life
  • Yogis find that meditation is the best way to contact Spirit
  • We use yoga well when we face the problems of life through the knowledge of Spirit

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