Authentic Yoga Tradition is the science of consciousness aims at conscious evolution and transformation. It is much more than practice of physical postures and breathing. These presentations are part of Yoga Teachers Training and workshop conducted in NJ, USA

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Welcome
History of Yoga Tradition
By
Acharya Girish Jha, MS, BS, DIY
www.Yogaplusherbs. Com
Awakening Realization Transformation
Knowing Doing Living
To know To do To Be
Mind is the cause of bondage and freedom

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We studied in chapter -1
introduction to history, text, tradition, masters
1.1 What is history, text, tradition, lineage, masters?
1.2 Why the study of Authentic Yoga Tradition is important?
1.3 Why ancient texts are important in Authentic Yoga Tradition?
1.4 Why tradition and lineage are unique in Authentic Yoga
Tradition?
1.5 Why masters are important in Authentic Yoga Tradition?

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Chapter -2.1 Introduction
We will study
History of yoga and yoga
tradition

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"In history, a great volume is unrolled for our
instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom
from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."
Edmund Burke
History is all about self-discovery – what people has
done in the past and what we all can do, reject what is
not desired, learn and do that helps to evolve and
improve collective life and create something new from
the existing knowledge, information and practices.

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• History yesterday – we recall where we failed and
not to repeat
• Yesterday we succeeded, we need to repeat, refine
and awaken
• History is much more important than any discipline
in education.
• Discover the highest, the greatest and the best
possibility in life

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What are the questions you like to ask
1.What are the Historical evidences of authentic Yoga?
2.How old is Authentic Yoga Tradition?
3.What is the philosophy of Time in eastern psychology
and philosophy?
4.Can we create a Timeline of authentic Yoga?
5.Can we create our own timeline for conscious
evolution and transformation?

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What we will learn, understand in this chapter?
1.How historical evidences help us to understand the
genius of masters and originators of Authentic Yoga
Tradition?
2.What types of evidences are found that proves
Authentic Yoga Tradition existed for many thousands of
years?

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What we will learn, understand in this chapter?
3.How masters relate inner evolution with time?
4.What are different ways to create timeline of
Authentic Yoga Tradition?
5.Why it is important to revisit our life that we lived for
20-40-60 years?

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Overview
•It is important to revisit our own life to educate
ourselves,
•how we have evolved,
•how negative and positive conditions outside and
inside, have influenced us,
•what we are now.
•to explore the possibility, what we can become in
future.

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Overview
•Even at the death-bed, man does not stop
desiring.
•The human aspiration aims at freedom, peace
and happiness.
•The history or memoir of our life, can show the
hidden path from where success is few miles
away.

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About the chapter and your life
• There are two ways to understand the history.
•One way to know the characters, timeline, their
contribution to human progress and destruction.
•Second way to analyze our own timeline
--------------Problems that we remember of the
past can become opportunity

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How we understand the history
• evidence ?
पतयकानुमानागमाः पमाणािन॥७॥
Pratyak ānumānāgamā pramā āni||7||ṣ ḥ ṇ
Right knowledge are (three types of) direct
perception, inference and testimony ||7|| (Yoga
Sutra by Patanjali 1.7)

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How we understand the history
Pratyak ānumānāgamā pramā āni||7||ṣ ḥ ṇ
He further clarified that right knowledge has
three elements to verify its assertion. They are
•direct contact- you are outside and know it is
raining
•inference –you hear from inside home that it is
raining
•Testimony -your friend tells you it is raining
outside

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How we understand the history
Facts and possibilities
•Yoga begins with absolute truth and ends with
it
•Science begins with relative truth – possibility
of growth by correction of error
•Yoga lays foundation of right knowledge and
the highest knowledge
What is relationship between knowledge and
Yoga

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How we understand the history
What is relationship between knowledge and
Yoga
The text, Gherand Samhita says:
There is no greater ignorance (that causes suffering)
than illusion (world of duality and division that
conditions the mind leading to pain, stress and
suffering). There is no power greater than the power of
Yoga. There is no greater friend than the knowledge
(knowledge of Real-Self) and there is no greater enemy
than one’s ego.

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We will learn in Chapter 2.2
1.What are the Historical evidences of authentic Yoga?
Thanks for learning
Think of evidences we have in present age
About 6000 years ago until present time
Ancient civilizations
Sculptures, fossils, ancient texts

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Welcome
History of Yoga Tradition
By
Acharya Girish Jha, MS, BS, DIY
www.Yogaplusherbs. Com
Awakening Realization Transformation
Knowing Doing Living
To know To do To Be
Mind is the cause of bondage and freedom