How and what we teach

According to Vedas, there are three steps. Karma means action, selfless service, Upasana, means devotation or love to God, then Jnana. The teachings of International Vedic yoga center is based on Veda teaching.
Our teachings include:

• Serve: Practice of Karma yoga - selfless service for steadiness of body and mind
• Love: Practice of Bhakti yoga - purify of the heart and mind, and give the stage of deep steadiness.
• Meditation: Practice of Raja yoga - practice of meditation
• Realization: Self knowledge
• Self surrender: self surrender to the Guru.

Evolution of yoga philosophy and practice

We know the human beings by the temperament never the same, the people belong to different temperament, they have different way to evolution of there consciousness. There are four types of temperaments:
Dynamic temperament, emotional temperament, psychic temperament, rational temperament.

Dynamic temperament - Karma yoga

Karma yoga is the yoga of action, which is selfless service, the selfless action control Rajas and Tamas nature of mind which is bring purity in heart and mind.
The practical point of karma yoga is selfless service, just perform the action, and give up the result. For this attitude, we need

• Thinking Positive
• Right Motive
• Your action is your Duty
• Do your Best for others
• Give up Results
• Serve God or the Self in all
• Follow the Discipline of your duty
• For Servicing the people, you are the channel of the God

Emotional temperament - Bhakti yoga

Bhakti yoga is the yoga of love to devotion, this path suits for the emotional natures. In Bhakti yoga, without faith, there is no Bhakti. Bhakti yoga gives steadiness in the mind, the experience of Bhakti yoga is bliss and it is a safe path because there is faith on the God.

Love alone can bring peace to the world. Therefore love all. Only if everyone practices the religion of love, can there be peace in the world.

Nine steps of Bhakti:

• Sravana (hearing of God's Lilas and stories)
• Kirtana (singing of His glories)
• Smarana (remembrance of His Name and presence)
• Padasevana (service of His feet)
• Archana (worship of God)
• Vandana (prostration to Lord)
• Dasya (cultivation the Bhava of a servant with God)
• Sakhya (cultivation of the friend-Bhava)
• Atmanivedana (complete surrender of the self)

Psychic temperament - Raja yoga

Raja yoga prescribes three kinds of Sadhana.

The first is Abhyasa (practice) and Vairagya (dispassion). He practices control modification of mind and meditation on the self; and soon enters into Samadhi.

The second practice is Kriya yoga, Tapas, Svadhyaya and Ishvarapranidhana.
Tapas is austerity. Egolessness and selfless service and desirelessness are the greatest forms of austerity. Svadhyaya is the study of spiritual literature and also Japa of your mantra (repeat name of god).
Ishvarapranidhana is the offering all the action to the lord. These three forms of Sadhanas are Kriya yoga. With this practice soon he attends the meditation and enters in Samadhi.

The third is Ashtanga yoga. The eightfold Sadhana:

1. Yama: moral code od conduct, or yogic self-control
   1. satya: truthfulness
   2. ahimsa: non-violence
   3. asteya: honesty
   4. aparigraha: non-possessiveness
   5. brahmacharya: celibacy
2. Niyama: the sense of discipline in one's inner life
   1. Shaucha: cleanliness
   2. Santosha: contentment
   3. Tapas: austerity
   4. Swadhyaya: self-study
   5. Ishwara pranidhana: generation of faith
      Yama and niyama purified individual action make them more static
3. Asana: the steady, comfortable and meditative posture. Practice of Asana discipline for body and mind.
4. Pranayama: the regulation of the vital force, practice of breathing for purification of mind and body.
5. Pratyahara: abstraction of the senses and mind from objects. The practice of Pratyahara is Tratka (gazing process on some object or breathing awareness).
6. Dharana: concentration, this is the practice of developing the awareness on one object.
7. Dhyana: meditation, awareness of one object, without intervision of any thoughts, the stage of one point.
8. Samadhi: superconscious state or trance, the state of oneness.

Rational temperament - Jnana yoga

Jnana yoga is yoga of knowledge, Jnana doesn't mean intellectual knowledge. It means intuitive, illuminative knowledge. Jnana yoga is the method of union through intuitive flashes. The truth is realized through insight. Jnana is the result. The path of Jnana yoga can be defined as the path of enquiry. From intense enquiry comes intuitive knowledge - Jnana.

Jnana yoga requires strong willpower and the overwhelming need to find an answer. The sixfold qualities of perfection, and intense longing for liberation.

• Viveka: means discrimination between the real and unreal.
• Vairagya: means dispassion for this world and heaven. Vairagya doesn't means abandoning one's social duties and responsibilities of life. Vairagya is mental detachment from all worldly objects. One may remain in the world and discharge all duties with detachment.
  Through practice of Viveka and Vairagya, there are intense desire of liberation from the wheel of births and deaths.
  A practitioner should reflect and meditate. Sravana is hearing the word of Guru, Manana is thinking and reflecting, Nididhyasana is constant and profound meditation. Then comes Atma-Sakshatkara or direct realization.