Serve Love Give Purify Meditate Realise
Ananda Kutir Ashrama © Chiltern Yoga Trust (Australia)
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Venkatesaya
- Give
Pranayama has a spiritual value beyond the mere physical and physiological one.
The mind is enabled by the practice of pranayama to go on to the practice of concentration and meditation.
- Love
In love and love alone is there total freedom.
Love is its own discipline.
Love destroys illusion called selfishness.
- Meditate
Nothing but meditation - coupled with selfless service, enables us to rise above these two currents of infatuation, attachment, desire - and hate, anger and aversion.
- Give
Between the plant and the mineral kingdoms, between the plant and the human kingdoms, there is reciprocal service.
What man gives out, including his outgoing breath full of carbon-dioxide, is food for the plants.
Whatever the plants give, including the oxygen that they "breathe out", is food for man.
- Give
Right from the very beginning of the practice of Yoga, the student discovers that the intelligence in the body is capable of meeting every situation that arises in life from moment to moment.
This is the "purpose" of the Yoga asanas - postures.