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Vivekananda and science
In his book Raja Yoga, Vivekananda explores traditional views on the supernatural and the belief that the practice of Raja Yoga can confer psychic powers such as 'reading another's thoughts', ...

 


Viveka (discernment, discrimination) is a deliberate, continuous intellectual effort to distinguish between the real and the unreal, the permanent and the temporary, and the Self and not-Self.

Viveka
Viveka means discrimination. This is the intellectual ability to discriminate, or discern, between the real and the unreal. Vedanta defines the real as being permanent and the unreal as being temporary.

Viveka : (lit., discrimination; distinction) The faculty of discretion that enables a human being to distinguish between true and false, reality and illusion.
Vritti : Fluctuation or movement of the mind; thought.
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Viveka: power of discrimination. Through knowledge of the k l e s' a s that disturb the continence, the keeping to the soul, one attains to spiritual sophistication.

(Vivekananada College, Madras 9.2.82)
Hari Om to everybody here. In the last thirty years, yoga has been subject to scientific studies in India as well as abroad.


VIVEKA - the power to differentiate true from false, real from unreal, essential from unessential, right from wrong, useful from useless, the first stage of jnana yoga

VRITTI - wave, rotating
- CHITTA VRITI - thought wave ...

Vivekananda Kendra has given top priority to sauca. It has made a decade long effort to rebuild our nation through purity, by cleaning the surrounding of the ancient temple of Devi Kanyakumari.

Viveka:"discrimination
Vimoka:"freedom from all else and longing for God
Abhyasa:"continuous thinking of God
Kriya:"doing good to others
Kalyana:"wishing well to all
Satyam:"truthfulness
Arjavam:"integrity
Daya:"compassion ...

Viveka ("discernment) - a most important aspect of the yogic path
Vrâtya (from vrata "vow") - a member of the sacred brotherhood in Vedic times in whose circles early yogic practices were developed ...

One day Swami Vivekanandaji was loitering at Varanasi in an uninhabited area. A group of monkeys followed him.

__ SAMATVAM YOGA - UCHYATE ( Bhagvad Geeta) Equanimity of mind in yoga __ Sri Aurobindo says : Yoga clevates a man from the level of animal man to Divine man __ Swami Vivekananda - Yoga is a way to condense the process of evolution.

"The greatest persons in the world are unknown to the world," said Swami Vivekananda in one of his lectures in America. "These Buddhas, these Christs that you are hearing of are second-rate heroes. They are not the first class ones.

From the inception of his spiritual quest in lives long past, viveka (discrimination) and vairagya (detachment) have been crucial to his endeavours.

It can be attributed to many gurus, including Swami Vivekanada, and their apostolic works. Vivekanada was a student of Ramakrishna, and was commissioned by his teacher to attend the Parliament of Religions in Chicago of 1893.

It can be attributed to many gurus, including Swami Vivekananda, and their apostolic works. The Germans also discovered the beauty of the Sanskrit language and Vedic mystery.

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center joined forces with Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation in Bangalore, India, to follow 335 women, ages 18 to 35, ...

Swami Vivekananda supported a connection between the Vedas and Tantras.
Sri Ramana Maharshi referred to Brahman, terms such as tat tvam asi. He also mentioned that he the techniques of Tantra were good for purifying the mind.

Lisa Orkin , is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, Yoga Therapist and occupational therapist who has studied Yoga Therapy at the Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation in Bangalore, India.

jaganmithya the world is a lie. [Vivekacudamani 20]
jagannatha (Jagannath) [Lord of the world].
jagat world, universe; (the word has the radical sense of motion): the perpetual movement; knot of motion.

There are three types of Adhikaris, viz., 1. good (Uttama), 2. middle (Madhyama) and 3. inferior (Adhama) according to Samskaras, intelligence, degree of Vairagya, Viveka and Mumukshutva and the capacity for Sadhana.

This is not to say that loving, compassionate, and awake teachers do not exist, but rather a student must exercise fundamental discretion (viveka) because of the great seductive power of self deceit, conceit, ...

Desikachar Yogarahasya, by T.K.V. Desikachar The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Satchidananda, Swami Satchidananda Jnana Yoga, by Swami Vivekananda Psychology of Mystical Awakening: The Patanjali Yoga Sutras, by Swami Savitripriya ...

Astanga Yoga is often called "Raja Yoga", which means the "Royal" Yoga. This name was actually coined at the turn of the century by Swami Vivekannanda, who thought Westerners would have a hard time saying "Astanga"! ...

VICHARA: Enquiry into the nature of the Self, Truth, Absolute, Brahman.
VIGRAHA: Attack.
VIKSHEPA: The tossing of mind.
VISHAYA: Sense-objects.
VIVEKA: Discrimination.
VRITTI: A wave in the mind-lake.
VYAVAHARA: (Worldly) activity.

Viparyaya: Wrong knowledge; wrong cognition.
Virodha: Opposing.
Visesha: Distinction; defined.
Vishaya: Objects.
Visoka: Without sorrow.
Vitaraga: One who is desireless.
Viveka: Discrimination.
Vritti: Modification of mind; thought-wave.

See also: Ananda, Yoga, Swami, Spirit, Mind