{"id":17160,"date":"2018-08-14T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:39:37","slug":"hinduism-ways-of-praying-and-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17160","title":{"rendered":"Hinduism; Ways of Praying and Knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism<br \/>\nWays of Praying and Knowing<br \/>\nTuesday, August 14, 2018<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMMWMQxRF5o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHinduism emphasizes concrete practices (yogas) which allow practitioners to know things for themselves. I often wonder if conservative Christians are afraid of the word yoga because they are in fact afraid of concrete orthopraxy! They prefer to strongly believe things but have very few daily practices or yogas that would allow them to know things in an experiential or \u201creal\u201d way.<br \/>\nThe summary belief in Hinduism is that there are four disciplines, yogas, toward which different temperaments tend to gravitate. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit for the yoke which unites the seeker with the Sought. Hindus believe that all four yogas can lead one to enlightenment; in other words, there are at least four foundationally different ways of praying and living in this world.<br \/>\nThe four basic Hindu disciplines are:<br \/>\nBhakti yoga\u2014the way of feeling, love, and the heart, preferred by Christianity and most mystics<br \/>\nJnana yoga\u2014the way of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, or head-based enlightenment, preferred by some forms of Buddhism and intellectual Christians.<br \/>\nKarma yoga\u2014the way of action, engagement, and work, which can be done in either a knowledge way or a service\/heart way, preferred by both Judaism and Islam<br \/>\nRaja yoga\u2014this roughly corresponds to experimentation or trial and error with mind and body through practices and empirical honesty about the inner life and the world, preferred by Hinduism itself (We see this clearly in Gandhi and his \u201cexperiments with truth\u201d and frankly in Mother Teresa who was formed by India more than most Catholics probably care to admit.)<br \/>\nEach of these paths can and will lead each of us to union with Supreme Reality, if we are fully faithful to them over time. For example, Raja yoga focuses on the mind\u2019s ability to discover the spiritual world through eight sequential steps, ending in enlightenment:<br \/>\nYamas\u2014five moral \u201cthou shalt nots,\u201d calling for non-violence, truthfulness, moderation in all things, no stealing, and not being covetous<br \/>\nNiyamas\u2014five \u201cthou shalts,\u201d requiring purity, contentment, austerity, study of the sacred texts, and constant awareness of and surrender to divine presence<br \/>\nAsanas\u2014physical postures (Westerners typically use the word yoga to simply mean asanas.)<br \/>\nPranayama\u2014breathing exercises<br \/>\nPratyahara\u2014withdrawal of the senses<br \/>\nDharana\u2014concentration of the mind<br \/>\nDhyana\u2014meditation<br \/>\nSamadhi\u2014enlightenment, union with the Divine<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling<\/p>\n<p>August 14,2018<\/p>\n<p>I AM YOURS FOR ALL ETERNITY. I am the Alpha and the Omega: the One who is and was and is to come. The world you inhabit is a place of constant changes\u2014 more than your mind can absorb without going into shock. Even the body you inhabit is changing relentlessly in spite of modern science\u2019s attempts to prolong youth and life indefinitely. I, however, am the same yesterday and today and forever.<br \/>\nBecause I never change, your relationship with Me provides a rock-solid foundation for your life. I will never leave your side. When you move on from this life to the next, My Presence beside you will shine brighter with each step. You have nothing to fear because I am with you for all time and throughout eternity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REVELATION 1: 8; I am the Alpha and the Omega,\u201d says the Lord God, \u201cwho is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HEBREWS 13: 8; Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PSALM 102: 25\u2013 27; Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You will endure; Yes, they will all &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PSALM 48: 14; For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Rohr Hinduism Ways of Praying and Knowing Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Hinduism emphasizes concrete practices (yogas) which allow practitioners to know things for themselves. I often wonder if conservative Christians are afraid of the word yoga because they are in fact afraid of concrete orthopraxy! They prefer to strongly believe things but have very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17164,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions\/17164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}