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What does the practice of yoga require?

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It only requires us to act and be attentive to our actions, which heightens attentiveness and awareness.

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What is Kriya Yoga?

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The yoga of action–3 ways of being–health, inquiry, and quality of action

intended to reduce avidya

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What is one very basic definition of yoga?

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to come together, to unite, to tie strands of the mind together

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What’s another classic definition of yoga?

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to be one with the divine

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What’s another further meaning of yoga?

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to attain what was previously attainable…every change is technically “yoga”, when we learn the meaning of a new word, when we find a way to bend the body in a new way, etc.