Svadhyaya
By Shyam Mehta
This is the second of three articles about yoga practice.
Svadhyaya
The fourth Niyama is Svadhyaya. Sva means "self' or "belonging to me." Adhyaya means "inquiry" or "examination". The word Svadhyaya literally means, "to get close to something.
Svadhyaya -- Self-study. Spiritual self-education. Contemplation and application of the scriptures or sacred texts of our chosen path.
Svadhyaya. Self-study. The process of inquiring in to your own nature and beliefs, and the nature of the world's spiritual journey (one of the niyamas).
Swami. Title of respect for a spiritual master.
SVADHYAYA
Study systematically the Gita, Ramayana, Bhagavatam, Vishnu-Sahasranama, Lalita-Sahasranama, Adityahridaya, Upanishads, Yoga Vasishta, Bible, Imitation of Christ, Zend Quran, the Tripitakas, ...
Svadhyaya ("one's own going into"): The study of the Self; the regular disciplined practice of chanting and reciting spiritual texts such as the Guru Gita , an important aspect of the yogic path, ...
Svadhyaya ("one's own going into")
study, an important aspect of the yogic path, listed among the practices of self-restraint (niyama) in Patanjali's eightfold yoga; the recitation of mantras/ Study of scriptures.
Svarupa ...
Svadhyaya (self-study) is the ability to see our true divine nature through the contemplation of our life's lessons and through the meditation on the truths revealed by seers and sages.
Svadhyaya does not mean study of any book that one may find anywhere at any time. It means a continued and regular study, daily, of selected holy texts, or even of a single text, from among those that have been suggested above.
Svadhyaya - study, self-understanding; one of the five niyamas, or observances, which together are the second of the eight stages of classical Yoga (see also niyamas) ...
They are shaucha (purity), santosha (contentment), tapas (austerity, self-discipline), svadhyaya (self-study) and ishvarapranidhana (surrender to the Lord). Like the yamas, the niyamas cannot be fully grasped as specific and bounded concepts.
Svadhyaya - Self Study and Mantra. This is not a psychoanalysis of yourself!! This is a study of Self to realize God in our heart. Mantra is repeating a word or sound to help clear the mind or to feel closer to God.
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Kriya Yoga, in the form of Tapas, Svadhyaya and Ishvarapranidhana. Tapas is the practice of austerities. Svadhyaya is study of spiritual literature and also repetition of a personal mantra.
It advocates moral and ethical development through its Yama and Niyama, helps the intellectual and cultural development through Svadhyaya or study of holy Scriptures, ...
Svadhyaya - Self-study
Ishwara Prandihana - Self-surrender to our higher consciousness, our true inner self, and/or to god (notice that yoga acknowledges that there is a god, ...
What books do you keep for Svadhyaya?
4. What is your special diet?
5. Do you keep a Japa Mala?
6. Have you got a separate meditation room?
7. How do you keep the meditation room?
8. Do you read Gita with meaning?
the great Himalayan master, offers to sincere seekers the opportunity to learn his "Kriya Yoga", the scientific art of perfect God-Truth Union. The unitive discipline of ritual; also the combined practice of asceticism (tapas), study (svadhyaya), ...
Niyama Five observances, personal disciplines or principles governing the way we relate to ourselves. Defined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras the niyamas are saucha (purity), santosha (contentment), tapas (austerity), svadhyaya (study), ...
SUDDHA: Pure.
SUKHA: Happiness.
SUSHUMNA: The chief among astral tubes in the human body running inside the spinal column.
SUTRA: Aphorism.
SVADHYAYA: Study of scriptures.
SVARUPA: Essential nature; Reality.
 See also: Yoga, Asana, Body, Tapas, Mind
  
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