Yoga is the technique to arrest our awareness and gradually bring it from the state of being disturbed and being all over the place to gradually becoming calm , focussed and ultimately concentrated. All individual efforts and actions which help one become concentrated are nothing but the activities of Yoga.
In Hinduism, Yoga is one of the sixteen systems of philosophy or 'Darshana'. The systems when arranged from the Vedanta point of view, form an ascending order beginning with Charvaka – the Indian Materialistic system being the furthest removed from Vedanta and Sankhya and Yoga being the closest to and approaching Vedanta.
The Mind Muscle Connection.
Everyone seems to have an idea about it. But what does it actually mean?
We dive deep, break it down and go to the root of this hallowed phrase. And in the process try to uncover its meaning and significance.