Book Title: Yoga Sagar
Author(s): Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger

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________________ you will never be frightened again, but you will not be frightened of your fear. So that you can become angry when it is appropriate and not become enraged to the point of violence. So that you can use your anger in a productive way. So that you can channel your emotions towards your goal. You can develop your iccha shakti and your prana, so that whatever you decide to achieve in your life, you can do it. Just as Paramahamsa Satyananada made a sankalpa to build a seven storey yoga headquarters here and he has done that, so we too in our own lives can build whatever we want, if we can channel our energy in a constructive way. The hatha yoga text provides probably the most widely known, most useful, simple and efficacious way to calm your body and to calm your mind by integrating and cleaning your prana, by making your prana sattwic; then by cleaning the antah karana, the inner organ composed of manas (thought and counter-thought), buddhi (discrimination), ahamkara (egoic process), and chitta (substratum, memory) and by harmonizing these two forces, prana and mind, you awaken this third force called consciousness. You become more conscious of your life, you become conscious of who you are, where you have come from and where you are going. So today we have had a wonderful survey of the scientific aspect of yoga from three eminent speakers who have graced us with their presence and we thank them heartily. 224 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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