'Is Pratyahara Really Intense?'

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BendOverBackwards (63.176.159.85) -

I've just started yoga this year (it was my new years resolution!) and so far I really love it. I practice 3 times a week but the other people in my class seem like they've been doing it forever! I overheard them talking about "Pratyahara" and I haven't been able to find any helpful information about it. Something about dulling yours senses so you don't rely on stimulus' anymore?

Can anyone tell me about this? Is there anywhere on the web with a decent explanation about what this actually is? I am really interested in knowing more...

Comment #1 kaalkaraal (117.198.202.243) -

pratyahara = an unit to measure to time in ancient india

1 pranayam = 4 seconds = 1 human kind breathing time

12 pranayam = 1 pratyahar( 48 seconds )

12 pratyahara = 1 dharna ( 576 seconds )

12 dharna = 1 dhyana

12 dhyana = 1 samaadhi

Comment #2 Ezra (63.176.159.60) -

The word “pratyahara” means “removing indriyas from material objects”. Pratyahara is the stage at which an adept learns how to control the “tentacles” of consciousness that are called “indriyas” in Sanskrit. This allows him to achieve the ability to see in subtle and the subtlest layers of multidimensional space, as well as to exit of his material body into them and to settle in them, accustoming himself to their subtlety, tenderness and purity.

Europeans translate the term “pratyahara” as “control over the senses”. But senses are not everything that is denoted by the term indriyas, since indriyas include mind as well. It is also essential that the image of “tentacles” evoked by the word “indriyas” provides profound understanding of the principles of functioning of the mind and consciousness, as well as of methods of controlling them.

Try this link for more details.

• www.religiousbook.net/Books/Online_books/Ec/Ecology_31.html

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