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THE YOGA

 

Yoga is the doctrine and the practices that carry the union with God and with the immortal Being.

Presently all the religions seek the same objective.

The word yoga derives from the Sanskrit      “yug” that means to unite.

Pantajali was the creator of the yoga that exposes in the book Yoga Sutras.

The main yogas are:

Hatha Yoga – This yoga modality of yoga seeks the control of the physical body and the equilibrium of the pranic energy,

It uses the practice of postures called asanas and also the practice of the conscious breathing: pranayama.

Hatha Yoga is the yoga of the physical body.

Raja Yoga – search the domain of the thought. It is the yoga of the mind.

Karma Yoga – is the yoga of the action and of work without the desire of reward, but with the purpose of improving this world of God.

The karma-yoga knows that all that happens is effect of our actions at present or of the past, therefore it accepts the pleasing effects so much as the unpleasant with resignation.

Who sows harvests and the harvest is as with the seed. We can choose the seed (the action) but not the harvest (the effect).

The karma-yoga is active and extrovert and uses very the hands.

It is the medical surgeon, the artisan, the plowman.

The ideal, however, is the practice of all yogas, because the man must become complete.

This is the yoga of the action and reaction.

Bhakti Yoga – search the evolution through of love, of the service to the neighbor and the devotion to God.

This yoga uses the prayer, the devotion to the Creator and the good works to improve the civilization.

This is the yoga of love; the path followed by the religious.

Gnana Yoga – this is the way of that evolve through the search for the knowledge, the wisdom – is the path followed by the intellectuals, by the scientists.

It is the yoga of the intellect.

Mantra Yoga – uses the repetition of words considered powerful or magic to reach the illumination.

The Hebrews combined the letters to reach magical effects.

It is the yoga of the sound (vibration).

Patanjali, the father of yoga, divides Raja Yoga, in the Yoga Sutras, in 8 stages:

Yama – Niyama – Asana – Pranayama – Pratyahara – Dharana – Dhyana – Samadhi.

YAMA

The rules of moral discipline indicated by Patanjali divided into  abstinences (yama) and observances (niyama)

Abstinence – absence of the violence or hatred, imperturbability.

It consists of five parts:

1 – Not-violence (ahimsa) - Pacifism, compassion with all the living beings.

Do not kill, inclusive the animals, and even same the vegetables (deforestation).

Because of this advanced yogis are vegetarian, not eating anything of source animal.

Gandhi, Buda and Jesus Christ taught and lived according to this principle.

The wars are originated of the intolerance to the differences of customs of the other peoples, besides the greed of a nation regarding another.

Respect to the neighbor is the key of the peace and of the fraternity among peoples.

2 – True (satya) – Always to seek for the truth and to talk always the truth. Also avoid talk badly of the others; if you have nothing good to talk the best is to remain in silence.

The truth may to offend some people, but the lie when discovery is worse.

3– Do not steal (asteya) – Do not rob material things, as well as ideas and inventions of the others.

We must have patience and to conquer what we need through the effort and own work.

Each one has your evolution degree like lived his passed incarnations, and it has more or less easiness larger or smaller easiness and capacity of action in different sectors of society.

4 – Chastity (Brahmacharya) –  Do not talk, read or think in erotic themes. Do not practice the sexual act as joy, but only for reproduction of new beings. Cultivate the purity and the innocence.

The sexual act is a natural function,  should not be denied, but controlled.

The chastity turns the Initiated divine.

5 – Detachment (Aparigraha) – Do not want material objects with much passion and in excess. To avoid the consumerism, the envy, the jealousy, the greed and the luxury.

Live with simplicity.

NIYAMA

Observances – also consist of 5 rules.

1 – Purity (Saucha) – Clean  or external and internal purity. Eat pure, natural food, vegetarianism, clean house, baths and clean clothes.

Pure thoughts, positive and elevate.

Examples of thoughts and beneficial actions: tolerance, humility, friendship, etc.

2 – Contentment (Santosha) – joy of living, do not complain of the life learning.

Live happy with what you have and to work with ambition moderated.

Keep the contentment when everything is doing well and also when the contrarieties  appear, because the pain and the difficulties are part of life, and takes us out of the indolence and inertia of the routine.

3 – Austerity (Tapas) – Live with method and discipline and not only for the pleasures and the leisure.

Life is made of work and repose; live with equilibrium.

The pleasures excess does not lead to the material or spiritual accomplishment.

4 – Study (Svadyaya) – It is the study  and the practice of the teachings of the great masters and the sacred writings, as the Vedas, the New Testament, Koran, etc.

The reading and the application of the teachings of the great men produce new ideas and elevate the mind.

They show new paths to follow, so much in the material science as in the spiritual science.

But neither all book, “master” or secret  and esoteric society have something useful or necessary for our evolution.

Also refer to the study of the proper Being itself, through internalization, meditation and concentration in the inner being.

5 – Cult to God (Ishvara-Pranidhana) – All initiated or religious recognizes power of the Creator and always directs the thoughts to the Divinity that created our solar system to receive her blessings.

Do not blame God for your problems, He knows what lessons the humanity, little developed, needs to reaching a place in the heaven.

Direct their thoughts so much to the Solar Divinity, as to the Absolute that directs our galaxy.

HATHA YOGA

The word hatha is formed by two syllables: HA (the Sun) and THA (the Moon), and it signifies the union of the  and the Moon, symbolic language for the union or harmony of the positive and negative energies.

To have health and happiness we need to harmonize these two polarities.

Most people believe that yoga is only the  hatha yoga that is just the initial stage  of the yoga.

The raja yoga, the yoga of the mind, is much more difficult than the hatha yoga, and should be studied together, because we are composed of body and mind.

Patanjali was yoga codifier in the IIIth century B.C.

In India yoga was practiced for the spiritual Improvement, unlike today that the practitioners are more interested only in the preservation of the physical body through of the asanas.

ASANAS

Asanas are the postures of the Hatha Yoga  that lead to physical and mental health.

Differing of the western conventional gymnastics, asana consists in keep, for some time, in a tense and immobile position.

The Hatha Yoga acts mostly in the endocrine glands and nervous centers, unlike of the western gymnastics that is more worried with the development of the muscles.

Some postures are little efficient and are more indicated for the circus exhibitionists or contortionists.

Other benefits only the arms or the legs.

After some months of the practice forget the suggested time and concentrate in the twists of the asanas.

When you have little time, practice at least the inverted asanas and the posture of the dog.

We present in this message Rose+Cross  only the best positions of the Hatha Yoga.

The people with diseases of the heart, lungs, hypertension, thyroid, eyes and ears or very fat, only should do the asanas, mostly the inverted, only with  the evaluation of a  doctor.

The positions yogis only can be done without the medical supervision, only for people with a health perfect, young, without no serious disease, even so it may confirm with the doctor his state of health.

 

Posture of the Plow (Halasana) – Lie on your coast with the arms extended next to the body.

Throw the legs back until the feet tips touch the ground. Use the arms to give the push back.

Remain in this position about 10 seconds, and then go to the position on the shoulder.

Warning: before practice this position and the next, make flexible the column with the snake position, dorsal lengthening, etc).

The inverted positions (arc, inverted action, etc.) are contraindicated to who suffer of the heart, lungs, eyes hypertension, diseases of the eyes and ears). Consult the doctor before to do these exercises.

Benefits – Make the spinal column most flexible.  Elasticity of the spine means  means youth, rigidity is old age.

It acts on the thyroid and the abdomen organs and constipation, common problem in who is not vegetarian.

It decreases the fat deposits in the back, belly, and haunches. 

 

Posture of the Inverted Action (Viparita-karani) – In continuation to the previous position, do this exercise, elevating the legs, with the help of hands on hips,, letting the legs in a right angle in relation to the trunk.

Remain in this position about 30 seconds.

Attention: - after the inverted postures lift the head slowly to produce the sanguine decompression in the brain. Or remain laid down some seconds in the dead position.

Benefits: produce similar effects to inverted positions, like the position following, position on the shoulders.

 

Posture on the Shoulders (Sarvangasana) – Continuing, impel  the legs more above  with the help of the hands supported in the waist, forming a right angle with the head, throne and legs.

Keep the vertical body and the chin leaned on breast.

The body will be supported in the shoulders.

Remain in this position, in immobility, about one or two minutes.

Undoing this posture, come back to the previous posture, of the inverted action (+- 8 seconds), continuing to undo, lean the knees in the forehead (+- 3 seg) and come back to the plow position (+- 10 seconds).

Then  rests in the dead position.

This posture also is called posture of the whole body, because all the parts of the body benefit.

Benefits – Improves the blood circulation, can unstop the veins, improves the nervous system, invigorates the pineal and pituitary glands.

Combat edema of the feet and ankles, varicose veins, difficult digestion, sexual weakness, constipation, headache, neurosis, coryza, hemorrhoids and wrinkles and precocious baldness.

It acts on the thyroid, the gland of the    growth and of the metabolism.

It sends a blood strong flux to the head, brain and face, improving the intellectual faculties, memory and rejuvenating the face.

 

Posture of the Dead (Savasana) – Lying on your coast, with the arms extended along the body, without using pillow, try to relax all the parts of the body, starting by the more contracted parts or by the sequence: feet, legs, trunk, head.

Also become aware of your breathing so that it become more rhythmic and profound and that your heart beat regularly.

Relax the face that reacts enough to the emotions.

If you have insomnia, do this exercise and the sleep will come back more easily.

Whether your house or environment around is very noisy,  use cotton in the ear, auricular protective of sponge damper or even a phone of ear.

The best is the sponge protective auricular, but can prevent the way out of the earwax demanding the cleaning of the  ears by a doctor.

Attention: In this sequence of asanas, the time recommended  for this posture is of about 30 seconds.

But when you feel tired, at other occasions, you can to remain in her the time that find necessary, because it does not have contraindication.

Also practice the relaxation as preparation for meditation, concentration, etc.

Benefits – Relaxes the muscles, combat the nervous tension and the anxiety, inducing to the peace of spirit.

 

Posture of the dorsal lengthening (Paschimottanasana) – Or tweezers posture – Sat down with the stretched legs, curve the trunk forward, moving the arms until your hands can hold the ankles. Time ± 10 seconds. Relax and do the posture once again.

Benefits – Turns the spinal column more flexible.

Combat the obesity and the constipation, the gastritis, sciatic pains, lumbago and the toxins of the liver.

It fortifies the spinal nerves, improves the functions of the kidneys, intestines, spleen, pancreas (diabetes), vesicle, bladder,  sexual organs and decreases the fats of the abdomen.

 

Posture of the Head in the Knee (Janushirshasana) – Sitting on the ground with the stretched legs, double the right leg and lean the right foot on the left thigh.

Bend the body to the left side until can hold the ankle with both hands.

Fold the body, without effort, until the maximum that your column allows.  Time: ± 5 seconds.

Repeat the position for the other side.

Benefits: - Gives flexibility to the spinal column and stimulates the functions of the abdominal organs, like the liver, kidneys, pancreas, etc.

Combat the obesity.

 

Posture of the Torsion of the Column (Vakrasana) – Sitting on eh ground,  with the legs stretched, put the right foot to the left side of the left thigh.

Hold the right ankle with the right hand, while the left hand is placed behind the body to keep the balance.

The body should be very erect.

Then twist the column to the left side during about 10 seconds.

Relax and return to the position again.

Execute the exercise on other side, changing the position of the legs.

Benefits – Healing or improves the pains of the muscles of the trunk, neuralgias, lumbagos, stiff neck

It makes flexible the column, rejuvenating the practitioner.

It invigorates the spinal nerves (sympathetic system), benefiting the abdominal organs, stomach, kidneys, liver, pancreas, spleen, etc; inclusive acting in the sexual impotence and menstrual irregularities.

 

Posture of the Snake (Bhujangasana) – Continuing with our series of yoga postures, lay face down, put the palms of the hands at the height of the shoulders.

Lift slowly the head and the rest of the trunk, curving the column back, however conserving the abdomen in the ground.

At the beginning the effort to raise the trunk, should be done more with the back muscles, without assistance of the hands.

After the arms take part more of the exercise.

Remain in the position about 10 seconds, then relax about 4 seconds and go back  again to the position.

Benefits – Sends an abundant flux of blood  to the spinal column and to the sympathetic nerves, invigorating them and making flexible the column.

Combat the obesity, mostly of endocrine origin.

Improves the kidneys functions, the digestion and combat the constipation, the back pain, benefiting all abdominal organ.

Combat the column rigidity of the column, may correct small deviations and defects of the posture, as of people curved forward or middle hump.

In the women benefits the uterus and the ovaries; in the men benefits the prostate.

 

Posture of the Arc (Dhanurasana) – Lying on face down, bend the legs upwards and holds the ankles.

The head, the trunk and the legs are elevated slowly, staying only the abdomen supported in the ground. Time ± 15 seconds.

Relax (1) and run again the position.

To get up, do the position following.

Benefits – Benefit the endocrine glands, digestive system, urinary, genital and combat menstrual irregularities.

It makes flexible and it strengthens the spinal column.

It eliminates the abdominal fats.

(1) When we say relaxes in the postures, it means that does not need to come back exactly to the beginning of the position to run again the exercise, can  start even of the middle of the practice.

This is a yoga easy and fast, for days hasty today's, where time is money or subsistence.

Treat more of the mind (raja yoga) than of the body (hatha yoga).

The body is mortal, the mind, the spirit is immortal.

 

Posture of the Dog (Adho Mukrasu Anasana) – Consists in stay of four as a dog. Time ± 8 seconds.

Benefits – Makes flexible the column and the legs besides strengthening the shoulders.

If the breathing is much stop, this position will immediately go active her.

 

Posture of the Triangle (Trikonasana) – Standing with the opened legs, bend the column to the side until left hand to touch the left foot.

The other arm is raised vertically. Time ± 5 seconds.

Repeat the position to the side right.

After doing it once for each side, pass for the position following.

Benefits – Benefits the spinal nerves and gives elasticity to the spinal column.

Improves the functions of the abdominal organs, like digestion, excretion, kidneys, etc.

Combat the lateral fat of the waist, improving the silhouette.

Ready! The fast and easy gymnastics is finished.

ATTENTION: We are not putting illustrations in this site, but you will can find the best positions of the hatha yoga   illustrated in the Internet, see more below.

PRANAYAMA

The system of yogic breathing is called pranayama.

Prana is the absolute energy of the Universe; it is the source of all the energies and produce all movement and life in the Universe.

Prana can be absorbed by the man through the food and through the breathing.

The yogic breathing search breathes consciously to improve its physical and mental health.

Pranayama is a collection of respiratory exercises to absorb prana, the vital energy.

The retentions of the pranayama are not recommended for those suffering from heart or lung. 

Yogic Breathing

Before starting any exercise of profound breathing, exhale the air from the lungs.

                                           Complete breathing:

1 – Inspires slow and profoundly the air until fill all the lungs.

2 – Retain the air during some seconds imagining that is absorbing prana, vitalizing the whole body.

3 – Expire slowly the air, imagining that the impurity and diseases of the body are expelled.

We prefer the breathing with 4 times, like nominated in the Message Rose+Cross “Profound Breathing”.

It consists of four times, roughly like  this: 15-15-15-15 seconds, depending on its pulmonary capacity, or of your size and height.

 

We continue with the eight steps of the yoga.

Internalization (Pratyahara) – consists to withdraw the senses from external objects and sensations.

Reduce the useless thoughts and the external sensations demand time and persistence.

The practice of the introspection can start by the attention to the breathing, observing it, without using the will, until it becomes more rhythmic and profound.

The artist, the scientist, the occultist, lives more internalized, in introspective state more than the common people.

For them the interior world is almost real as the outer world, indeed the mental world is more real than the physical world.

When the mind turns off of the physical senses the spiritual senses begin to awake.

Bhabharata compares the pratyahara to a turtle: “as well as the turtle gathers its members under the carapace, in the same way the yogi withdraws the senses of the influence of the external objects”.

External noises: it is easy to close the eyes, but the ears never close.

If you live in a noisy environment: traffic, neighborhood and the family itself, use cotton in the ears or muffled sound, as the used by the workers of noisy industries.

The sponge ear protector is the most effective, but sometimes cover the exit of the wax of the ears and demands a cleaning with a medical. 

Or then listen to one of this ambient music radio, for the internet to smother the sounds disharmonic of the environment:

Radio Scalla –

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Radio Jornal  -

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See more radios and ambient music in Best Sites, in this site.

Concentration (Dharana) – consists in the fixation of the mind in a only object or theme.

During the concentration should be  complete abstraction of the senses in relation the outer world, besides the exclusions of thoughts not related to the purpose.

Practice the concentration fixing the mind on flame of a candle, in the 3° eye (situated among eyebrow), etc.

Meditation (Dhyana) – It is the continuous and prolonged stream of thought directed to an object until arrive absorb in it.

This mode of reflection allows the yogi  to reach the knowledge of the material or abstract things.

In this state the yogi reaches a super-consciousness and happiness total; in union with the Creator, where there is not the duality between the knower and the known. 

Meditate, for example, on a virtue until can incorporates it in himself and to act like it.

The religious also used to practice this kind of meditation.

Contemplation (Samadhi) – it is the goal of the yoga,  it is when the yogi gets if identify with the object of the meditation.

Think exclusively in a Master, Jesus, Krishna, a saint man, etc.

Come in on total tune with God, the Universe or our Sun.

Loved students of the RoseCross, here we finish this Message on an old practice millennial, the yoga.

 

         

 

I see always the other as person, never as instrument.

                                                               Dom Lorenzo

A man becomes all or nothing, as the education that received.

                                                               Clemente XIV

The world is to who born to conquer and not to who dream that can conquest him, although it has reason.

                                                               Alvaro of Campos

 Man x Woman = Family

 Man x Man = ??

                                                                Anonymous

The positive thoughts keep us in harmony with the Universe.

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THE ILLITERATE POLITICIAN

 

The worst illiterate is the illiterate politician. He does not hear, does not talk, neither takes part in the political happenings. He does not know that the cost of living, the price of beans, , of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoe and of the medicine depend on the political decisions.

 

The illiterate politician is so donkey that if pride and stove the breast saying that he hates the politics. The imbecile does not know that, of its political ignorance, is born the prostitute, the abandoned minor, and the worst of all the bandits that is the political swindler, crook, corrupt and lackey of the national companies and multinationals.

 

 

ESOTERIC ILLUSTRATED ALBUM

 

We are not putting illustrations in our Messages RoseCross, but you can make an Illustrated Album.

Search in the Google Image the best illustrations for your Album. 

Thus will choose between several illustrations, the best. An image is worth for a thousand words.   

As it is to personal and not commercial use, their creators tolerate the practice.

It is a creativity and pleasure exercise.

We present suggestions of images to your Esoteric   Illustrated Album:

 

Asanas (all mentioned in the Message R+C above) – Cromo therapy, Colors – Chakras – Ufos – Elementals – Yorkshire's Fairies – Pentagram of Eliphas Levi – Astrological Symbols – Tarot, 22 Arcanum – Tree of Life – Pyramids – Sphinx – Croop circles – Aura – Stonehenge – Chiromancy, handlines –Symbols Rosecross, of the Theosophical Society, of the Masonry, etc. – Magic Altar – Astral Projection – Winged Globe - Talismans –– Mandala – Ying Yang – Ceremonial Magic – Famous occultists: Saint Germain, Cagliostro, Helena Blavatsky,  Papus, Aivanhov, Allan Kardec, etc.

It will be a wonder!

        

 

 

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