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Modern Yoga Philosophy Flashcards

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A new religious synthesis which drew from a more personal and spiritual reading of the upanishads.

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Sanatan Dharma

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Sanatan Dharma:

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Eternal truth or universal righteousness

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True or false: Sanatan Dharma does not reject its parent traditions.

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True

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Sad Darshan:

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Six paths

Six schools of Vedic philosophy

Six instruments of true teaching

Six demonstrations of Truth

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Darshan Shastra

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A “great text” that combines sutras and bhashyas that defines each Sad Darshal school

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What two texts is in a Darshan Shastra?

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Sutra and bhashya

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Sutra

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Strings of text

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Bhashya

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Commentary

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True or False: Patanjali authored both Yoga Sutras and its bhashya.

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True

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The goal of each philosophy in Darsan Shastras:

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End suffering

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What consists of basic practices of purification and self control?

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Sadhana

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Schools of philosophy based on the Vedas

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Darshan Shastras

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The shortest form of text

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Sutras

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Commentary on sutras

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Bhashyas

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Chetana

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One conscious state of being, perception, knowledge

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In Shad Darshan which school is yoga paired with?

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Sankhya

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17
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This Darshan Shastra explains the practical process of heart purification which may qualify individual to experience the absolute Divine

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Yoga Sutras by Patanjali

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Father of Modern Yoga

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Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

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T. Krishnamacharya’s first guru

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Nathamuni

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True or false: Krishnamacharya never claimed originality.

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True.

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21
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This student of Krishnamacharya brought yoga to Hollywood

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Indra Devi

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Which proper school did Krishnamacharya teach in first?

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Sanskrit College in Mysore

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What is Krishnamacharya’s guru’s parting request

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Return home to teach yoga, marry, establish a household

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K Pattabi Jois popularized which kind of yoga

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Ashtanga

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Where did Indra Devi settle down?

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Buenos Aires

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Which student of Krishnamacharya developed yoga as healing practice

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Iyengar

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How is Krishnamacharya related to Iyengar?

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As brother in law

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What happened in 1950 that urged Krishnamacharya to develop greater compassion?

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His original yogashala / school closed he had to start from scratch

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Krishnamacharya’s last major disciple and son

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TKV Desikachar

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30
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Best known branches of Yoga

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Raja
Karma
Bhakti
Jnana
Hatha 
Mantra
Tantra
Laya
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Yoga that is the path of devotion, acceptance, tolerance

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Bhakti Yoga

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32
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True or False: Most tantra yoga schools recommend a celibate lifestyle.

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True

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Yoga of sound

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Mantra yoga

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Yoga of physical and mental purification

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Hatha Yoga

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Yoga for the intellectual or scholar

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Jnana Yoga

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A yoga we practice whenever we work and life in a selfless way or way to serve others

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Karma Yoga

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Shakti

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Feminine principle of the cosmos

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Type of yoga dealing with energy’s flow from mooladhara to sahasrara

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Laya yoga

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Laya:

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Dissolution

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True or False: Sanatan Dharma is a religion

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False

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Aim of yoga

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To develop and deepend awareness

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Chetana

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One conscious state of being, perception, knowledge

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Jagriti

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Wakefulness or conscious mind

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Dream/subconscious mind

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Swapna

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Nidra

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Sleep or unconscious mind

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True or False: Awareness = consciousness

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False

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Pratyahara

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Withdrawal of the senses

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Single pointed concentration

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Dharana

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Kleshas direct translation

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Poison

50
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Blocks on path to enlightenment

Causes of suffering

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Kleshas

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True or false:

The mind is empty in meditation

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False

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Five Kleshas

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Avidya / ignorance
Asmita / egoism
Raga / attachment
Dvesa / aversion
Abinivesah / fear of death
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Ignorance of our true self

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Avidya

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False identification with ego

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Asmita

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Raga

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Attachment to things that bring us pleasure

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Dvesa

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Aversion to pain, suffering, discomfort

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Abinivesah

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Clinging to life
Mortal fear of death
Disinterest in afterlife

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True meaning of Samadhi

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Sense of contentment and equanimity

True reality

59
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The opposite of blooming or expanding

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Asmita

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Which part of the brain are raga and dvesa located

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Hypothalamus or subconscious

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How to overcome attachment?

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Realizing the impermanence of pleasure and pain.

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True or false: you need to avoid pleasure completely to overcome attachment to it.

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False

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Chitta vritti nirodaha

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Yoga is the ability to calm the fluctuations of the consciousness or mind

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Pramana

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Valid cognition

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Viparyaya

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Misconception

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Imagination

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Vikalpa

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Nidra

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“Sleep”

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Smriti

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Memory

69
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For knowledge to be valid it needs

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To reveal the thing as it is

Have a practical application for you

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Pratyaksha

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Direct experience

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Anumana

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Inference/ability to apply logic and reason

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Agamah

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Trusting in knowledge and experience of someone else

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Ways to acquire knowledge

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Pratyaksha

Anumana

Agamah

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Anubhava

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Assessment of knowledge to ur personal experience

75
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Prapancha

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“The world” in sanskrit

Pancha-five senses
Pra - perceiving through

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Yoga nidra

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Deep sleep consciousness

77
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How can memories steal a present moment?

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Holding on to impressions

Creating bias, judgement or criticism

78
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Eight limbs of yoga

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Yamas
Niyamas
Asana
Pranayama
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi
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Ashta

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Eight

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Anga

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Limb

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Yama

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Personal restraints

Universal practices/Golden Rules

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Ahimsa

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Nonviolence

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Five yamas

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Ahimsa
Satya
Asteya
Bramacharya
Aparighara

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