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In today’s time yoga =Why is considered an hour of practice of asana and pranayama which is not the case with Hathayoga an age old practice in India. For understanding this in detail let us get acquainted with basic understanding of physical education first. Physical Education Important?=

=What is Physical Education?=education aims at developing all the possibilities of the human body―possibilities of harmony, strength, suppleness, skill, endurance―and increasing the mastery of the functions of its members and organs, making the body a perfect instrument at the disposal of the conscious will. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-july-1956#p41,p42,p43</ref>

Physical education means chiefly the combination of all exercises Spiritual life does not mean contempt for the sake of the growth and upkeep of Matter but its divinization. We do not want to reject the body and but to transform it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1208/general-messages-andapril-letters#p60</ref>has three principal aspects: (1) control and discipline of the functioning of the body, (2) an integral, methodical and harmonious development of all the parts and movements of the body and (3) correction of any defects and deformities.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education1967#p3</ref>

==Why Hathayoga is Physical Education Important?==a powerful, but difficult and onerous system whose whole principle of action is founded on an intimate connection between the body and the soul. The two main members of its physical discipline are ''āsana'', the habituating of the body to certain attitudes of immobility, and ''prāṇāyāma'', the regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body. These two methods are complex and cumbrous in action, but simple in principle and effective. Perfection of Asana and Pranayama is only a basic physical power and freedom. But the principal gain is that by this purification the vital energy can be directed anywhere, to any part of the body and in any way or with any rhythm of its movement. The enjoyment of our liberated being which brings us into unity or union with the Supreme, is the consummation; it is that for which Yoga is done. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p2,p4,p5,p6,p7,p12</ref>

Sports help Asana deals more directly with the body to prepare for more material part of the physical totality, though here too it needs the aid of the other; Pranayama, starting from the Transformation. And therefore <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-physical immobility andself-letters#p60</ref>for us spiritual life does not mean contempt for Matter but its divinizationholding which is secured by Asana, deals more directly with the subtler vital parts, the nervous system. We do not want This is done by various regulations of the breathing, starting from equality of respiration and inspiration and extending to reject the body but to transform it.<ref>
http://incarnatewordmost diverse rhythmic regulations of both with an interval of inholding of the breath.In the end the keeping in/agenda/08/april-3-1967#p3
</ref>If there is impurity and insincerity withinof the breath, the outer change will not which has first to be effective; but if there is a sincere inner workingdone with some effort, and even its cessation become as easy and seem as natural as the outer change will help it constant taking in and accelerate the processthrowing out which is its normal action. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3023/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purificationhathayoga#p45p10</ref>

=What All the power of the body is Hathayoga?=stilled, collected, purified, heightened, concentrated to its utmost limits or beyond any limits by Asana and other physical processes; the power of the life too is similarly purified, heightened, concentrated. This concentration of powers is then directed towards that physical centre in which the divine consciousness sits concealed in the human body. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-principle-of-the-integral-yoga#p3</ref>

===Why is Hathayoga is a powerful, but difficult and onerous system whose whole principle of action is founded on an intimate connection between the body and the soul. The two main members of its physical discipline, are ''āsana'', the habituating of the body to certain attitudes of immobility, and ''prāṇāyāma'', the regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body. These two methods, complex and cumbrous in action, but simple in principle and effective. Perfection of Asana and Pranayama, is only a basic physical power and freedom. The principal gain is that by this purification the vital energy can be direcHere it comes into line with Rajayoga, and a point is reached at which a transition from the one to the other can be made.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p2</ref>All Yoga proceeds in its method by three principles of practice; first purification, secondly concentration, and thirdly liberatio. The enjoyment of our liberated being which brings us into unity or union with the Supreme, is the consummation; it is that for which Yoga is done. Important?===

=How The power of these exercises of breathing to Cultivate Hathayoga Practice?= bring about a purified and unobstructed state of the nervous system is a known and well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to clear the physical system, but is not entirely effective at first on all its canals and openings; therefore the Hathayogin uses supplementary physical methods for clearing them out regularly of all their accumulations. The combination of these with Asana,—particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases,—and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the health of the body. But the principal gain is that by this purification the vital energy can be directed anywhere, to any part of the body and in any way or with any rhythm of its movement.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p10</ref>

Though mechanicalBy its numerous "āsanas" or fixed postures t first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, these Asanas in Hathayoga are done with perception of gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the psychic being in us.The psychological method habits by which it is Yoga. To seek subjected to ordinary physical Nature and kept within oneself through introspection what is permanent, what is constantthe narrow bounds of her normal operations.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0523/16the-decembersystems-of-1953yoga#p4p9

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Hathyoga and Tantric practises are occult processes for acting on the body while the modern methods of development follow the ordinary physical process to give the body all the perfection it is capable of in its present state. The basis of all these methods is the power exercised by the conscious will over matter. Movements, on the other hand, if they are made consciously, deliberately, with a definite aim, suddenly start helping you to form your muscles and build up your body and to create a general harmony in the body— we succeed. Therefore, what I mean is that the method one uses has only a relative importance in itself; it is the will to obtain a certain result that is important.You can use all the movements of your life for a harmonious development of your body. So, you choose the method you like best, but you can use the whole of your daily life in this way. To think constantly of the harmony of the body, of the beauty of the movements, of not doing anything that is ungraceful and awkward. You can obtain a rhythm of movement and gesture which is very exceptional thereby the conscious will which acts on matter, not the material fact."Something there is in us has to be developed, perhaps a central and still occult part of our being containing forces whose powers in our actual and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about =Comparison with the help of the light and force Other Schools of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-july-1957#p2</ref> Yoga=

=Why is Hathyoga Important?=Its numerous āsanas or fixed postures it first cures Rajayoga also uses the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action Pranayama and movement for the vital forces poured into it from same principal psychic purposes as the universal Life-OceanHathayoga, but being in its whole principle a psychical system, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness employs it only as one stage in the series of its practices and seeks to liberate it from the habits. Robust healtha very limited extent, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attainedfor three or four large utilities.It does not start with Asana is used by the Rajayoga only in natural positionand Pranayama, with but insists first on a moral purification of the use mentality. This preliminary is of the mantra supreme importance; without it brings the divine energy into course of the body and and facilitates concentration in Samadhi.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p7</ref>The way for rest of the ascent through the greater psychic being Rajayoga is likely to the union with the superconscient Purusha can be done by Pranayamatroubled, marred and full of unexpected mental, moral and physical perils.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p6p5
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=Different Schools Most of the physical siddhis acquired by certain Yogins are brought about by some opening up of the law of the subtle or a calling down of something of the law of the spiritual body. The ordinary method is the opening up of the ''cakras'' by the physical processes of Hathayoga (of which something is also included in the Rajayoga) or by the methods of the Tantric discipline. But while these may be optionally used at certain stages by the integral Yoga=-Bhakti Yoga in itself , they are not indispensable; for here the reliance is as wide as on the heart-yearning power of the soul for higher being to change the lower existence, a working is chosen mainly from above downward and not the Divineopposite way, resolves itself simply into these four movementsand therefore the development of the superior power of the gnosis will be awaited as the instrumentative change in this part of the Yoga. <ref>
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*the desire of the Soul when In Integral Yoga it turns towards God and the straining of its emotion towards himis not a specialised process, *the pain but a spontaneous uprush of love and the divine return of lovewhole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, *the delight of love possessed and the play of that delightsometimes in a less concrete motion, and* on the eternal enjoyment other side a descent of the divine Lover which is Divine Consciousness and its Force into the heart of celestial blissbody. The triple Path This descent is felt as a pouring in of Workscalm and peace, of Love force and power, of Knowledge is a direct commerce between the human Purusha in the individual body and the divine Purusha who dwells in every body and yet transcends all form and name.We perceive that as Hathayogalight, dealing with the life of joy and bodyecstasy, aims at the supernormal perfection of the physical life pure wideness and its capacities freedom and goes beyond it into the domain knowledge, of the mental life, so Rajayoga, operating with the mind, aims at a supernormal perfection and enlargement of the capacities Divine Being or a Presence—sometimes one of the mental life and goes beyond it into the domain of the spiritual existence. the spiritual lifethese, too much associated with the state sometimes several of Samadhithem or all together. Object of Integral Yoga’s Yoga is in its principle a taking up and summarising and completing of this process, an endeavour to rise to make the spiritual life highest possible supramental level and bring down its experiences fully active consciousness and fully utilisable in the waking state powers into mind, life and even in the normal use of the functionsbody. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2328/thespiritual-systemsevolution-ofand-the-yogasupramental#p14p5</ref>