02-16-2016, 02:46 AM
[quote name='Erica' date='26 October 2006 - 04:47 PM' timestamp='1161898789' post='59806']
You are right about yoga, many people attend yoga lessons just to learn concentration or to practise any oriental doctrine, or also because they've read something about any VIP that practise Yoga itself!![/quote]
ISKCON considers yoga to be an exercise routine.
From Srila Prabhupada's commentary to [url="http://asitis.com/6/3.html"]Bhagavad Gita 6:3[/url]:
You are right about yoga, many people attend yoga lessons just to learn concentration or to practise any oriental doctrine, or also because they've read something about any VIP that practise Yoga itself!![/quote]
ISKCON considers yoga to be an exercise routine.
From Srila Prabhupada's commentary to [url="http://asitis.com/6/3.html"]Bhagavad Gita 6:3[/url]:
Quote:Concerning the eightfold yoga system, attempts in the beginning to enter into meditation through regulative principles of life and practice of different sitting postures (which are more or less bodily exercises) are considered fruitive material activities. All such activities lead to achieving perfect mental equilibrium to control the senses. When one is accomplished in the practice of meditation, he ceases all disturbing mental activities.
A Ká¹âºÃ¡Â¹Â£Ã¡Â¹â¡a conscious person is, however, situated from the beginning on the platform of meditation because he always thinks of Ká¹âºÃ¡Â¹Â£Ã¡Â¹â¡a. And, being constantly engaged in the service of Ká¹âºÃ¡Â¹Â£Ã¡Â¹â¡a, he is considered to have ceased all material activities.