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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
sit in the same posture for a long time. It gives some trouble. Some people because of their practice are able to sit for long. Some people, because they don’t have the practice, cannot sit for long. Sometimes it is due to certain defects in the body, may be some pain here, may be some pain there, we do not know. People were terribly obsessed in earlier systems about this body posture and they bothered about - the asana. They said that they spent all the time in controlling the body and make it learn how to sit. Several asanas have come which go by the name of yoga. To say that it has got something to do with happiness, is something that is an extraordinary thinking which however people have accepted for the last one and half century. Prior to this, nobody has followed so many Asanas. Thanks to the Maharaja of Mysore, the pranayama and all the asana yoga have got publicity. First, only eight asanas came. Eight asanas were there originally from which it came to three hundred and above now! You may add some more. All that is meant only to control mind. Asana is very insignificant aspect of sadhana. This is only one aspect of our sadhana, a very very insignificant one at that. Of course in our system we don’t bother about asana. We sit in a comfortable posture, Patanjali himself has advised that we sit in 134