Empowering approach to yoga

Shavasana removes fatigue and brings rest to the mind.

The glorious Mayurasana turns to ash all excess, unwholesome food and digests lethal poison.

Siddhasana breaks open the door to liberation.

All together there are as many asanas as there are species of living beings. Shiva has taught 8,400,000.

By using this practice, Shambhavi is sure to arise. Diseases of the eye disappear; one gets divine sight.

Stare at a small object without blinking until tears start to fall. The wise call this Trataka.

Rotate the stomach quickly on both sides. This gets rid of all diseases and the bodily fire increases.

Like an unbaked pot in water, the body is always decaying. One should bake it with the fire of Yoga and make it pure.

Just as from studying the alphabet one may understand the scriptural teachings, so by practicing Yoga one may obtain knowledge of the Ultimate Reality.

There is no fetter like illusion, no force greater than Yoga, no friend greater than knowledge, and no enemy greater than ego.