What is the definition of yoga? In short, yoga is a system for the unfoldment of a greater, mightier and more powerful consciousness in man by certain physical, psychological, psychosomatic and spiritual exercises. The word yoga literally means ‘union, communion, merger’ or much better ‘fusion’. It should be explained that yoga means a process of communion, a process of reintegration of the lower consciousness with the higher and mightier consciousness in man.
Even as rivers flow into and become one with the ocean, in the same way this human being with his small mind, with his narrow consciousness, with his limited awareness, has been suffering very much, but by the practice of yoga he tries to fuse his lower consciousness, his limited consciousness with unlimited and infinite consciousness and to become happy, peaceful and full of knowledge.
Therefore, all the practices of yoga tend to develop that state of mind in which we are able to practise concentration, meditation, one-pointedness and complete integration with the higher self.
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