Basics of yoga, part 2: Ahimsa (harmlessness)

Ahimsa: non-violence, non-infringement, safety

In his commentary on the Yoga Sutras, Vyasa [Vyasa was one of the most wise of India, author of the Mahabharata including the Bhagavad Gita), Brahma sutras and the Codifier of the Vedas.] begins his exposition of ahimsa: "ahimsa means in any case and at any time for any living creature damage." ADI Shankara expanded, say that, that ahimsa "in any capacity and no way to each as damage." This would include violation of Word or thought that, if the obvious violation of the Act further says perpetrated for ADI Shankara: "ahimsa is in each capacity body, speech and mind are practiced." We believe that this principle of Jesus in his or her claim is set out that anger aimed, someone is a form of murder (Matthew 5: 21 and 22), and the lover of younger statement that hatred is also murder.(I John 3: 15)

Even a simple understanding of the law of karma, the law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6: 7), allows it we realize the terrible consequences of murder for the killer. Vyasa said: "The killer robbed the victims of the spirit, hurts him with a blow from a weapon and rips it way of life." Because he is an another spirit robbed has the support of his own life, animated or inanimate, weakened. Because it has caused the pain, he experiences pain itself.... "Because he has torn a life apart, he enters a life to life in which at any time will he die because the retaliation as pain right, should update itself while he is panting for death."

Ahimsa is interpreted in many ways - that is because Sanskrit is rich to expect a language that is in many possible meanings of a single word. But basically ahimsa is damage caused not by a creature, including inhuman species. (Ahimsa is generally not on plants and a violation of ahimsa would be minerals life, but certainly wanton destruction of life, partly, because it eventually, that also adversely to which animals would.) This ideal it is obvious that violence, injuries or deaths are unthinkable for the Yogi. And like Vyasa immediately that has all other abstentions and memory Yama and Niyama are really rooted in ahimsa, for they imply prevent harm ourselves and others by negative act or neglect of the positive measures.

"The other Yamasa and niyamas are rooted in this, and they are only to its peak, only for that perfect [i.e. ahimsa] practiced." You are only as a tool teaches to get this in its purity. So that it read: ' what many vows the man of Brahman [God] commit, just because he therefore to do casually evil defaults through deception, he brings from ahimsa in its purity. "" And ADI Shankara explains that Vyasa refers to the delusion that is"rooted in violence and caused violence."

Damage in Act, speech or thoughts contains strict abstinence from any form of ahimsa. Violence, including verbal and physical, should be avoided. And this includes any kind of angry or deliberate damage or abuse of physical objects.

Ahimsa is a State of mind of these non - damage is of course go. "Ahimsa is really a stance and the kind of attitude towards all living beings on the basis of recognition of the underlying unity of life," the modern commentator Taimni explains. ADI Shankara comments, ahimsa and the others are observed "the cause of an injury does." The ego itself is "innocent" in a State of the not function. And meditation perfectly solves that. However, to this State Interior, we work backwards from the outside, inside and refrain from all acts of violation.

In reality we live no moment in this world without countless people injured. Many small organisms, and each step kills our simple act of breathing, we take that does. To maintain the health of the body constantly against harmful bacteria wars, bacteria and viruses. So ahimsa can be observed in the last sentence of the State only perfectly mentally. However, we are obliged to do as little damage as possible in our external life. In his autobiography relates his Paramhansa Yogananda, guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, said that ahimsa absence of desire to harm.

Although it has many branches, the aspiring Yogi has to realize that the observance of ahimsa is to include strict abstinence from animal eating of meat in a form or degree.

Although the subject of strange is missing every comment I have read on the Yoga Sutras, the practice is the not damage relative to the Yogi of crucial importance. That is, the Yogi nothing in thought, Word or deed that harms his body, mind or spirit. This requires a great many Abstensions, in particular abstaining from meat (including fish and eggs), alcohol, nicotine and mind or mood change substances including caffeine. On the other hand requires that the taking of body, mind and soul, benefits for their negligence is also a form of self - injury, the not respect of one of the Yama or niyamas. It is not an easy thing like a Yogi.

To: Satya (truthfulness, honesty)