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Ashtanga Yoga Mysore
Ashtanga yoga also called ashtanga vidya is a system of yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a sage of 15th century India, and compiler of the Ashtanga Yoga Pradipika. In this treatise Swatmarama introduces ashtanga yoga as preparatory stage of physical purification that the body practices for higher meditation. The asanas and pranayama in raja yoga were what the Hindu yogis used to physically train their body for long periods of meditation. This practice is called ‘shatkarma’.

Ashtanga is the yoga of Patanjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutras. It is composed of eight limbs: yama and niyama, which are ethical observations; asana, meaning posture pranayama, which is breath control; pratyahara, which is sense withdrawal; dharana, which is concentration; dhyana, which is medit ation; and samadhi, which is a high state of concentration, mastery of the mind.

The eight limbs are more precisely viewed as eight levels of progress, each level providing benefits in and of itself and also laying the foundation for the higher levels. Frequently ashtanga yoga of Patanjali is being confused with raja yoga, Patanjali nowhere in his sutras uses the term raja yoga.

Swami Anand Vismay (aka Mahesh), a certified teacher from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Neyyar Dam and the Osho International Meditation Retreat, Pune. He has been teaching Hatha Yoga for the past 4 years and meditation for the past 8 years.

According to him "the perfect teacher is one who knows this: that he does not know". Unless he has become established in the way-that means he has attained to love and to watchfulness - unless he has come to that clarity of consciousness which makes one a Buddha, he should not teach.