Atmayogaasutra

Author(s): Ram
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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The second organ of the Atmayoga is the Atma-samkalpa.
The yogasutra's second organ is the Niyama (regulation). They are also five :
(1) Purity (Shaucha) (2) Contentment (samtosha) (3) Penance (tapas) (4) Right study (Svadhyaya) and (5) Deep faith in Atmamarga (Ishvara-pranidhana-the Siddha-way) (2.32). It is a redundant organ. The Samnyasin does hava these qualities and many more. It has hence, been omitted.
The third organ of the Yogasutra is posture (asnam) which is steady and pleasant (2.46). The Atmayogin chooses the right postures according to the nature of the Atmadhyana (spiri-meditation). He avoids the violent postures of the Hathayoga.
The third organ of the Atmayoga is the Atmasanam.
The fourth organ of the yogasutra is Pranayama. After rightly fixing the posture, there is breath-discipline, signifying the regulation of the motions of the inhalation and the exhaltion (2.49). The concept pranayama, here, has not rightly been defined. The spirit (atman) is the carrier of the in-breath and the out-breath. The breath discipline organ is designed to monitor the earnings of the spatoms (spirital atoms) from the unmanifest fundamental field, constituted of the spatomic cooperativity, the latomic (life-atomic) cooperativity and the matomic (matteric-atomic) collectivity, described in detail in my research work. "Reflections on the Antireflected” and the throwings out of the matoms (matteric atoms) of the matteric subtle-body (sukshma sharira), identical with chitta, the spirit-cover of the conscientiate formations. The function of the Pranayama is to finally annihilate this chitta, the sukshma sharira. The nature of the pranayama is spirital.
The fourth organ of the Atmayoga is the Atma-pranayama.
The fifth organ of the yogasutra is Pratyahara. When the organs of the body become totally divoreed from their objects and follow the fundamental nature, viz, spirital nature of the chitta, it is Pratyahara. The concept pratyahara connotes antifeeding or non-feeding of the organs by their objects, the non-feeding of the
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