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The Yoga how developed in India and Hadha yoga has become popular in India and abroad very early was after a religionconferrnce at Chicago which was a personal achievement ofvSwami Vivekananda.However,a brief History of Yoga is brought out in this Blog in the following paragraphs. .

Yoga history has many places of obscureness andvuncertainty due to it's oral transmission of sacred texts and th secretive nature of it's teachings.The earliest writings on Yoga were transcribed on Fragile palm leaves. These were subjected to easier Destroyal. The development of Yoga can be traced tonas back as 5000 years and never very recent.Researchers even think itb Could be 10000 years. Yoga's long and rich History can be devided and summarized into periods of Innovation,Practice and Development. According to researchers Yoga can be traced to have developed by Indus Saraswathy Civilisation in Northern India Over 5000 years ago.The Word YOGA wascfirstbmentioned in oldest text of Rig Veda.The Vedas were collection of Texts containing songs,Mantras and Rituals to be used by Brahmins the Vedic priests. The Yogi's who practise Yoga often described Yoga is a way to attain peace of mind and a journey towards Nirvana or Moksha.As far as Rishis are concerned this is true.But it is applicable only to those gave away worldly relationships and think only about armttaining Moksha. However,there is no harm even if children,youngsters and women practise yoga from health point of view. The beginning of Yoga is understood to have started and devoloped in India byIndus Saraswathy Civilisation in northern part of India over 5000 years ago. The word YOGA was first mentioned in the Oldest sacred texts,the Rigveda.The Vedas We're collection of texts containing Songs,Mantras and Rituals to be used by Brahmins who were Vedic priests.Yogas we're slowly refined and developed by Brahmins and Rishi who documented their Practice and briefs in the Upanishads,a huge work containing 200 scriptures.The most renowned of the Yoga scriptures is Bhagavath Gita composed around 500 BC The Upanishads look the idea of ritual sacrifice of the ego through self knowledge to achieve Karmayoga and Yoga wisdom known as Jannayoga. Classical yoga ***************** In the preclassical stage,Yoga was mishmash of various ideas,beliefs,and techniques that often conflicted and contradicted each other. The classical period is defined by Patanjali Yoga Sutras,the first systematic presentation of Yoga.Written sometimes in the second Century,the Text prescribes the path of Rajayoga Patanjali organized the practise of Yoga into an eight imbed path containing the steps and stages towards obtaining Samadhi or Enlightenment.Patanjali is often considered as the father of Yoga and his Yoga sutras still strongly influence most of styles of Modern Yoga. Post classical Yoga ********************* A few centuries after Patanjali YogacMasters created a system of Practises designed to rejuvenate the body and rolong life.They rejected the leading theories of Ancient Vedas and embraced the Physical body as the means to achieve enlightment.They developed the Tantra Yoga with radical techniques to cleanse the body and mind to break the knots that bind us to our Physical existence.This exploration of these Physical-Spiritual connection and body centered practices lead to the creation of what we primarily think of Yoga in the west Hathayoga. MODERN PERIOD:. ************** INn the last 1800 and early 1900 Yoga Masters began the travel to the wise attracting attendees and followers. This began in 1893Parliament of Religions in Chicagowhen Swamy Vivekanandavowed to the attendeeswithchis lectures on Yoga and the Universality of the World Religions.In the 1920sand 30s Hatayoga was strongly promoted in India with the work of The.Krishnamacharya and other Yogis practicing Hatayoga .Krishnamacharya opened the first Hatayoga school in Mysore in 1924 and 1936. Sivananda founded the Divine Life Society on the banks of the Holy GangesRiver. Krishnamacharya produced three students who continued his legacy and increased popularity of Hatayoga. BKS Iyengar,TKV DESIKACHAR,Pattabhi Jois Sivananda was a prolific author writing over 200 books on Yoga and established nine Ashrams and numerous Yoga Centres located around the World. The importation of theYogato the west still continued as a trickle until Indradevi opened her Yoga studio in Hollywood in 1947.Since then many more western and Indian teachers had become pioneers popularising Hatayoga and gaining millions of followers. Hatayoga now has many different schools or styles all emphasising the many different aspects of the Practice. The yoga if done systematically with different Aasanas and most particularly with PRANAYAMA invariably along with Yoga can even achieve Ashtaiswaryas who is the maximum of SIddhis one yogi can achieve including floating in air. But at the same time it is still unknown whether any Yogi has achieved Ashtaiswaryas. For achieving Ashtaiswaryas one will have to be a real believer and most faithful to the Principle "LOKO SASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU" and practising it in full faith and sincerity without any other thought of diverting attention at any point of time. All other propaganda that Yoga can do wonders like preventing climate change and curing illness relating to Love Sex etc are illusions as Love and sex have never been considered or branded as diseases. To conclude Yogasiddhi are not easy to achieve.It needs maximum concentration, high power to hold breathing,and perfect control over mind without allowing to divert towards worldly thoughts and power to join God and Godliness. Presently ,world has advanced with the help of scientific methods to achieve many unparallel knowledge to the extent of manufacturing advanced missiles like those mentioned in Vedas as Bhrahmastras.But as these are used for destroy all they do not come under the definition of "Loko Samantha Sukhino Bhavanthu" and so can not be termed as achievements literally. Those who ever achieved Yogasiddhis had never used them for fulfilling self goals or for destroyal .By planning to achieve material benefits for living more happily if one get himself engaged in Yoga to get Sindhis such siddhi scan never be achieved. Ashtaiswaryas are not " Aiswryas" in the sense of material achievements and Yogas are not a way or step to follow for achieving anything. However ,if performed properly and regularly together with Pranayamas devotedly and faithfully,Yogas can do wanderers to the performer SreedharanMundanat 19th April 2018 at Thrissur, Kerala,INDIA.