Yoga practice in Jain

Pathanjali yoga delineates

The path to liberation.

Jainism resorts to yoga

As the means to self realization.

Pathanjali spell out eight steps.

Yama,,, niyama, asana, pranayama,

Pratyahara, dharana, dhyana

And Samadhi in that order.

They are vows, observance,postures,

Control of respiration, control of senses,

Fixation of mind at a point, concentration

And cessation of mind respectively)

Yamas are five in both scriptures.

Ahimsa,satya, astteya

Brahmacharya and aparigraha.

(they are nonviolence, truth, nonstealing,

Celibacy and nonaccumulation respectively)

There five nyamas as known:

Sauch, santosh, tapas, swadhyaya

And Ishvara pranidhana.

(self purification, contentment, penance

Study of scriptures and surrender

To the devine or self realization

Respectively)

Yoga and dhyan are insisted

By both to spiritual advancement.

Pranayama is not found in Jainism.

Samadhi is motionless state

Of the mind and body, the state

Of trance in which unity takes place.

For jain it is self realization, a state

Of being known, not union with God.

Jain is not antagonist to Hinduism

But denounces Vedic rituals.

30.08.2018