THE LIGHT ON HATHA YOGA

original title: "The Hatha Yoga Pradipika"

Continuing from the dietary guidelines of the previous page: "One should eat what is pleasing to the mind and suitable for the practice." 65.

Asanas: physical postures, various Kumbhakas: breath retention techniques, and other divine means should all be practiced in the discipline of Haṭha Yoga: the yoga of physical effort and purification, until the fruit—Râja Yoga: the "Royal Yoga" of mental mastery and spiritual liberation—is obtained. 69.

Thus ends the first chapter of the Light on Hatha Yoga.

original Sanskrit: "iti haṭhapradīpikāyām prathamopadeśaḥ"

End of the first chapter, concerning the method of performing the postures.