Yoga for the Modern Age - by Rasarani dd February 8, 2008
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What is yoga? What is the purpose of it in the age of Kali? How does one perform it?
Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead explains that ‘yoga’ is a process of controlling the mind and senses.
In the Satya-yuga (the Golden Age), the yoga system was recommended, where one was to always meditate on Vishnu. In the Treta-yuga, one could practice yoga by performing great sacrifices and in the following age, the Dvarpara-yuga, one could achieve perfection by temple worship. The present age in which we are all living in is Kali-yuga. ‘Kali-yuga’ means ‘the age of quarrel and hypocrisy’ and is the age characterized by chaos and ignorance.
As practiced in the previous yugas, yoga was a process involving years of meditation and severe austerities.
However in the kali-yuga, this practice is of yoga is not recommended

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