{"id":1572,"date":"2010-05-11T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T20:23:16","slug":"maharishi-on-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/yoga\/maharishi-on-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharishi on the complete meaning of Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"During an international news conference held in 2007 from Maharishi European Research University in Holland, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi<\/a> answered a question from a reporter on the widespread practice of physical yoga postures, which has become a trend throughout the world. Maharishi was asked his advice for people who practice this physical form of Yoga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoga means \u2018unity\u2019\u2014it means living unified wholeness in the field of diversity,\u201d Maharishi said. \u201cMy advice is to continue practicing Yoga on the physical level\u2014but also to start and continue to practice Yoga<\/a> on all other levels\u2014mental, intellectual, and on the level of self-referral, Transcendental consciousness. On all levels, Yoga will help you to progress in every way, in every field of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maharishi explained that Transcendental Meditation<\/a> is Yoga. \u201cI had to give it a new name\u2014Transcendental Meditation\u2014because I felt Yoga has been commonly misunderstood in terms of the physical level alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maharishi said that a great Yoga truth is that “Yoga is superior action.” <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you want a superior quality of action, then you should practice Yoga on all levels,\u201d Maharishi said. \u201cYoga is a good word, but it should be properly understood and practiced beyond the physical level. The result will be a rapid, holistic evolution of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During an international news conference held in 2007 from Maharishi European Research University in Holland, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi answered a question from a reporter on the widespread practice of physical yoga postures, which has become a trend throughout the world. Maharishi was asked his advice for people who practice this physical form of Yoga. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,61,4],"tags":[34,296],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maharishi","category-video","category-yoga","tag-maharishi-mahesh-yogi","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}