IIT Delhi Online Course 4 | Session 1 | Science of Yoga | Sri M | Feb 2022

In the first session of the Online Course 4 with IIT Delhi, Sri M commences the session with explaining what is meant by, 'Science of Yoga' and scientific inquiry. He also touches upon delving into the inner and extraordinary experiences, thereby leading to the discussion on yoga beyond asanas. The session ends with Sri M answering some questions put forth by the students.

This online session took place on 2nd February 2022.

00:00 – Introduction
00:29 – Science of Yoga – Introduction – What is Science?
03:39 – Scientific Enquiry
04:36 – Enquiry in the Science of Yoga
05:46 – Belief systems and hypotheses
07:53 – Delving into the inner – Extraordinary experiences
11:54 – Extraordinary beings – Story of a Sufi saint
13:46 – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
14:38 – Yoga – Beyond asanas
17:24 – What is Yoga, actually? – The Bhagavad Gita
20:34 – Yoga as a Science
22:31 – Book - Raja Yoga – Conquering the Internal Nature by Swami Vivekananda
23:48 – Reading few excerpts from the above book – Swami Vivekananda’s teachings on Raja Yoga as a scientific method to reach the Truth.
36:02 – Darshanas
37:00 – Psychological theory of perception according to Sankhya and Yoga
38:25 – How do I perceive the world? Perception through the senses
40:43 – Psychological definition of how perception works – the mind and the senses
43:09 – The witness behind the mind – this entity the Yogis call Athma
44:36 – One’s past experiences and prejudices colour one’s perceptions
46:32 – Yogi sees things in all purity and clarity with no prejudices and the Science of Yoga helps with that
47:21 – Science of Yoga – Yoga dehypnotizes and de-conditions one from all conditionings and frees one from it
51:04 – Q&A begins – Q1 – If we consider Yoga as a Science, then is it a complete Science – for instance if everything has already been proved or is it like Physics where we know certain things have not been proved?
53:29 – You spoke about magic tricks and such things are an imitation of reality. Could it not be something from one’s imagination instead?
56:51 – Different people follow different kinds of spiritual practices. Although their methods are different how is it that they have the same or similar final experiences?
01:01:30 - You earlier said that Yoga is a process of removing prejudices and of de-hypnotizing. The ultimate aim of the Science of Yoga is to realize the Truth. Can you explain, what is the Truth? Is it different from facts?
01:07:44 – What the Upanishads say about the Truth.
01:09:08 – Incident from J.Krishnamurthy’s life

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