Yoga yakhazikika kale mu kukula kwa dziko lathu. Komabe, zomwe ife, tikudziwa, timadziwa za yoga. Kwenikweni, chidziwitso chathu chimatha ndi mfundo yakuti yoga imatchedwa asanas, chabwino, tikudziwa masewero atatu kapena anayi. Komabe, m'mphepete mwa khutu mwinamwake munamvapo mawu monga hatha yoga ndi raja yoga. Ndi anthu ochepa chabe amene amadziwa kuti asanas m'lingaliro lenileni ndi "malo a thupi limene lili losangalatsa komanso losangalatsa."
Yoga ndi chiphunzitso chonse. Yoga ili ndi njira zambiri, zomwe zimakhala za raja-yoga, karma yoga, jnana-yoga, bhakti-yoga ndi hatha yoga. Tiyeni tione bwinobwino malangizo a raja yoga.
Raja-yoga imabweretsa maganizo a munthu, chidziwitso chake, chimapangitsa malingaliro, kuphunzitsa ndikumbukira, kumathandiza munthu kudzidziwa yekha ndi kuphunzira momwe angayendetsere zochita zake. Pambuyo pake, zimakhulupirira kuti munthu samadziwa komanso samadzimvetsa yekha, zomwe zimakhala zopinga moyo wake. Raja Yoga kumasulira amatanthawuza "royal yoga", chifukwa iyi ndiyo malo apamwamba kwambiri a yoga, pambuyo pozindikira kuti mumakhala mfumu. Gawo ili la chiphunzitso liyenera kuchitidwa chidwi kwambiri mu yoga. Munthu amene amachita Raja Yoga amadzipeza yekha.
Hatha Yoga ndi Raja Yoga nthawi zonse amapitirana ndikugwirizana. Kuti akwaniritse zotsatira za yoga, ayenera kuchita chimodzimodzi, komanso mothandizidwa ndi wothandizira.
Mu yoga, pali magawo asanu ndi atatu a chitukuko. Zigawo zinayi zoyambirira za yoga zimatengera ziphunzitso za hatha yoga, zomwe ndizo:
- yama (miyambo ya makhalidwe, malamulo a makhalidwe abwino, malamulo a makhalidwe);
- niyama (khalidwe laumwini, kudziletsa, kudzipereka pazochita zauzimu);
- asana (dongosolo la machitidwe olimbitsa thupi pophatikiza maganizo ndi thupi);
- pranayama (kupuma mphamvu).
Zotsatira zinayi zotsatira zikugwirizana ndi raja yoga:
- protahara (kumasulidwa kwa malingaliro kuchokera m'maganizo, kulekana kwa mphamvu kuchokera ku chinthu);
- dharana (kulingalira kwa maganizo, kulingalira pa chinthu chochita);
- dhyana (kulingalira, kusinkhasinkha);
- samadhi (kulingalira kwakukulu, chidziwitso chachikulu).
Gawo lirilonse lidutsa mopitirira. N'zosatheka kuphunzira ndikuchita masitepe mosiyana.
Mabuku a Raja Yoga
Mabuku otchuka kwambiri ndi ofunika kwambiri polowera ku raja yoga ndi awa:
- "Raja Yoga" Yoga Ramacharak;
- Swami Vivekananda Raja Yoga;
- "Kuphunzira kwa Raja Yoga Khumi ndi Zinayi" ndi Swami Sivananda;
- "Zofunikira kwambiri za dziko lapansi za yogisi zachi India" Yoga Ramacharak;
- Swami Sivananda The Golden Book of Yoga.
Yogi Ramacharaka anali mmodzi mwa oyamba kufotokoza mitundu yosiyanasiyana ya yoga. Pansi pa pseudonym iyi analemba wolemba wa ku America William Walker Atkinson, yemwe zaka za 19-20 adafalitsa nzeru za Afiya kumadzulo.
Pansi pa pseudonym Swami Vivekananda analemba mtsogoleri wamkulu wa yoga, Narendranath Dutt, yemwe anali wofufuza kwambiri wa ku India. Iye anali wophunzira wa Ramakrishna.
Ntchito izi zidzakuthandizani kuphunzira zambiri zokhudza yoga, chiyambi chake, kumvetsetsa bwino ndikuyang'ana yoga monga nzeru za moyo.
Raja Yoga art project
Palinso malo onse a "Projekti ya Raja yoga", kumene zonse zimasonkhanitsidwa pa raja yoga ndi kusinkhasinkha. Cholinga cha polojekitiyi ndi kuwauza anthu za yoga kudzera m'nkhani, zithunzi, zojambulajambula, mafanizo, zojambula, mavidiyo ndi malingaliro. Ntchitoyi ikuwonedwa ngati malo opanga anthu onse omwe akufuna kuthandizira kusintha kwa dziko. Ndipo aliyense akhoza kuyika malo awa zithunzi, zithunzi, nyimbo ndi chirichonse chomwe chimawoneka chofunikira, mkati mwa zolemba za ntchito. Izi ndizothandiza kwambiri kwa iwo amene akufuna kudziwa zambiri zokhudza yoga, koma sangathe pazifukwa zonse kuphunzira pa Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKVDU).