Yoga Practice In Jain Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Pathanjali yoga delineates
The path to liberation.
Jainism resorts to yoga
As the means to self realization.

Pathanjali spell out eight steps.
Yama, , , niyama, asana, pranayama,
Pratyahara, dharana, dhyana
And Samadhi in that order.
They are vows, observance, postures,
Control of respiration, control of senses,
Fixation of mind at a point, concentration
And cessation of mind respectively)

Yamas are five in both scriptures.
Ahimsa, satya, astteya
Brahmacharya and aparigraha.
(they are nonviolence, truth, nonstealing,
Celibacy and nonaccumulation respectively)

There five nyamas as known:
Sauch, santosh, tapas, swadhyaya
And Ishvara pranidhana.
(self purification, contentment, penance
Study of scriptures and surrender
To the devine or self realization
Respectively)

Yoga and dhyan are insisted
By both to spirutal advancement.
Pranayama is not found in Jainism.
Samadhi is motionless state
Of the mind and bodt, the state
Of trance in which unity takes place.
For jain it is self realization, a state
Of being known, not union with God.

Jain is not antagonist to Hinduism
But denounces Vedic rituals.
30.08.2018