Hathayaga is founded on an intimate connection between body and soul. The whole aim is to give the soul in the physical body light, purity and freedom; it is a path, though long and difficult, to the Supreme.
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For in a Yoga which embraces all life completely and without reserve, the full use of Samadhi comes only when its gains can be made the normal possession and experience in the human being.
Entire subjection of the mind and the life to the body is the characteristic of an undeveloped humanity; to achieve real freedom and mastery we have to ascend to a yet higher level of our being.