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Hatha Yoga is seen in [[Hinduism]] as a convenient way to the heights of Raja Yoga (school of Hindu philosophy); it is a preparatory stage of physical practice that renders the body fit for [[meditation]].  

Hatha Yoga is seen in [[Hinduism]] as a convenient way to the heights of Raja Yoga (school of Hindu philosophy); it is a preparatory stage of physical practice that renders the body fit for [[meditation]].  

:::[[''Health]] is wealth, peace of mind is happiness and Yoga shows the way.''  Swami Vishnu-devananda.   

::: ''[[Health]] is wealth, peace of mind is happiness and Yoga shows the way.''  Swami Vishnu-devananda.   

''Yoga means "Union" from the same Sanskrit root. What are the elements which are united or to be united when this word is used in its common sense of a practice widely spread in Hindustan whose object is the emancipation of the individual who studies and practises it from the less pleasing features of his life on this planet?... I say Hindustan, but I really mean anywhere on the earth; for research has shown that similar methods producing similar results are to be found in every country. The details vary, but the general structure is the same. Because all bodies, and so all minds, have identical Forms... The more we study this universe produced by our Yoga, the more we collect and synthesize our experience, the nearer we get to a perception of what the [[Buddha]] declared to be characteristic of all component things: Sorrow, Change, and Absence of any permanent principle.''<ref> [http://www.meritfields.com/  EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA BY MAHATMA GURU SRI PARAMAHANSA SHIVAJI]</ref>

''Yoga means "Union" from the same Sanskrit root. What are the elements which are united or to be united when this word is used in its common sense of a practice widely spread in Hindustan whose object is the emancipation of the individual who studies and practises it from the less pleasing features of his life on this planet?... I say Hindustan, but I really mean anywhere on the earth; for research has shown that similar methods producing similar results are to be found in every country. The details vary, but the general structure is the same. Because all bodies, and so all minds, have identical Forms... The more we study this universe produced by our Yoga, the more we collect and synthesize our experience, the nearer we get to a perception of what the [[Buddha]] declared to be characteristic of all component things: Sorrow, Change, and Absence of any permanent principle.''<ref> [http://www.meritfields.com/  EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA BY MAHATMA GURU SRI PARAMAHANSA SHIVAJI]</ref>