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Saiyama

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Though the word saiyama is used in the general sense of control or self-control, the Yogasutras[1] of Patañjali[2] employs it as a technical term. When dhāraṇā[3] and dhyāna[4] result in samādhi,[5] the process[6] is defined as saiyama.

Patañjali describes a number of siddhis[7] that a yogi attains by practicing saiyama on various objects.[8]


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Yogasutras 3.4
  2. ↑ He lived in 200 B. C.
  3. ↑ Dhāraṇā means fixing the mind on an object.
  4. ↑ Dhyāna means meditation on the same.
  5. ↑ Samādhi means superconscious experience.
  6. ↑ The process of practicing these three together.
  7. ↑ Siddhis are the psychic powers.
  8. ↑ Yogasutras 3.5-55
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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