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In today’s time yoga 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.
=What is Physical Education?=
Physical education means chiefly the combination of all exercises for the sake of the growth and upkeep of the body and it 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/general-messages-and-letters#p60</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/physical-education#p3</ref>
=Why is Physical education means chiefly the combination of all exercises for the sake of the growth and upkeep of the body and <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-and-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-education#p3</ref>Education Important?=
It teaches Physical education aims at developing all the cells to be conscious. But to develop possibilities of the brainhuman body―possibilities of harmony, it's studystrength, observationsuppleness, intelligent education—especially observation and reasoning. And naturallyskill, for endurance―and increasing the mastery of the whole education functions of its members and organs, making the consciousness from body a perfect instrument at the standpoint disposal of character, it's yogathe conscious will.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0908/september25-28july-19681956#p40p41,p42,p43</ref>
==Why is Physical Education Important?==Spiritual life does not mean contempt for Matter but its divinization. We do not want to reject the body but to transform it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/april-3-1967#p3</ref>
Sports help the body to prepare for the Transformation. And therefore <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/general-messages-and-letters#p60</ref>for us spiritual life does not mean contempt for Matter but its divinization. We do not want to reject the body but to transform it.<ref>
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</ref>If there =What is impurity and insincerity within, the outer change will not be effective; but if there is a sincere inner working, the outer change will help it and accelerate the process. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p45</ref> Hathayoga?=
=What 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 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 Hathayoga?=done. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p2,p4,p5,p6,p7,p12</ref>
Hathayoga is a powerful, but difficult and onerous system whose whole principle Asana deals more directly with the more material part of action is founded on an intimate connection between the body and the soul. The two main members of its physical discipline, are ''āsana''totality, though here too it needs the habituating aid of the body to certain attitudes of other; Pranayama, starting from the physical immobilityand self-holding which is secured by Asana, and ''prāṇāyāma''deals more directly with the subtler vital parts, the regulated direction and arrestation nervous system. This is done by exercises various regulations of the breathing , starting from equality of respiration and inspiration and extending to the vital currents most diverse rhythmic regulations of both with an interval of inholding of energy in the bodybreath. These two methods, complex and cumbrous In the end the keeping in action, but simple in principle and effective. Perfection of Asana and Pranayamathe breath, is only a basic physical power and freedom. The principal gain is that by this purification the vital energy can which has first to be direcHere it comes into line done with Rajayogasome effort, and a point even its cessation become as easy and seem as natural as the constant taking in and throwing out which is reached at which a transition from the one to the other can be madeits normal action.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p2p10</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.
=How All the power of the body is stilled, collected, purified, heightened, concentrated to Cultivate Hathayoga Practice?= 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>
Though mechanical, these Asanas in ===Why is Hathayoga are done with perception of the psychic being in us.The psychological method is Yoga. To seek within oneself through introspection what is permanent, what is constant.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-december-1953#p4</ref>Important?===
Hathyoga and Tantric practises are occult processes for acting on the body while the modern methods The power of these exercises of development follow the ordinary physical process breathing to give the body all the perfection it is capable of in its present bring about a purified and unobstructed state. The basis of all these methods the nervous system 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 known and well-established fact of our physiology. It helps also to create a general harmony in clear the body— we succeed. Thereforephysical system, what I mean but is that not entirely effective at first on all its canals and openings; therefore the method one Hathayogin 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 supplementary physical methods for a harmonious development clearing them out regularly of your bodyall their accumulations. SoThe combination of these with Asana, you choose the method you like best—particular Asanas have even an effect in destroying particular diseases, but you can use —and with Pranayama maintains perfectly the whole of your daily life in this way. To think constantly of the harmony health of the body, of . But the beauty of principal gain is that by this purification the movements, of not doing anything that is ungraceful and awkward. You vital energy can obtain a rhythm of movement and gesture which is very exceptional thereby the conscious will which acts on matterbe directed anywhere, not the material fact."Something there is in us has to be developed, perhaps a central and still occult any part of our being containing forces whose powers the body and 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 any way or with the help any rhythm of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness its movement.<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0923/17-july-1957hathayoga#p2p10</ref>
=Why is Hathyoga Important?=Its By its numerous "āsanas " or fixed postures it 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, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits. Robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained.Asana by which it is used by the Rajayoga only in natural position, with subjected to ordinary physical Nature and kept within the use narrow bounds of the mantra it brings the divine energy into the body and and facilitates concentration in Samadhiher normal operations.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p7</ref>The way for the ascent through the greater psychic being to the union with the superconscient Purusha can be done by Pranayama.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga-systems-of-yoga#p6p9
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=Different Comparison with Other Schools of Yoga=
Bhakti Yoga Rajayoga also uses the Pranayama and for the same principal psychic purposes as the Hathayoga, but being in its whole principle a psychical system, it employs it only as one stage in itself the series of its practices and to a very limited extent, for three or four large utilities. It does not start with Asana and Pranayama, but insists first on a moral purification of the mentality. This preliminary is as wide as of supreme importance; without it the heart-yearning course of the soul for rest of the DivineRajayoga is likely to be troubled, marred and full of unexpected mental, resolves itself simply into these four movementsmoral and physical perils. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p5
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*Most of the desire physical siddhis acquired by certain Yogins are brought about by some opening up of the Soul when it turns towards God and the straining law of its emotion towards him, *the pain subtle or a calling down of love and the divine return something of love, *the delight law of love possessed and the play of that delight, and* spiritual body. The ordinary method is the eternal enjoyment opening up of the divine Lover which is ''cakras'' by the heart physical processes of celestial bliss. The triple Path Hathayoga (of Works, of Love and of Knowledge which something is a direct commerce between also included in the human Purusha in Rajayoga) or by the individual body and methods of the divine Purusha who dwells in every body and yet transcends all form and nameTantric discipline.We perceive that as Hathayoga, dealing with But while these may be optionally used at certain stages by the life and bodyintegral Yoga, aims at they are not indispensable; for here the supernormal perfection of reliance is on the physical life and its capacities and goes beyond it into the domain power of the mental life, so Rajayoga, operating with higher being to change the mindlower existence, aims at a supernormal perfection working is chosen mainly from above downward and enlargement of not the capacities of the mental life opposite way, and goes beyond it into therefore the domain development of the spiritual existence. the spiritual life, too much associated with the state superior power of Samadhi. Object of Integral Yoga’s is to make the spiritual life and its experiences fully active and fully utilisable in gnosis will be awaited as the waking state and even instrumentative change in the normal use this part of the functionsYoga. <ref>http
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In Integral Yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous uprush of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body. This descent is felt as a pouring in of calm and peace, of force and power, of light, of joy and ecstasy, of pure wideness and freedom and knowledge, of a Divine Being or a Presence—sometimes one of these, sometimes several of them or all together.
“ Integral Yoga” Yoga is in its principle a taking up and summarising and completing of this process, an endeavour to rise to the highest possible supramental level and bring down its consciousness and powers into mind, life and body.
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Read more about '''[[Hathayoga Compilation|Hathayoga]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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