Eightfold Path

• Yama (Cleansing the character. Being truthful, honest, kind and so forth)
• Niyama (Increasing the mastery of will over the body by taking up vows.)
• Asana (Fixing a posture in which one can sit absolutely still for 3 hour. The yogi should feel comfortable and the spine should remain straight and perpendicular to the ground.)
• Pranayama (Breathing techniques to calm the mind and heal the body. It also increases concentration and the alkaline nature of blood.)
• Pratyahara (Withdrawal of the conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind from any kind of distraction and focussing it on a single object.)
• Dharana (Achieving some amount of one-pointedness. Its analogous to the concentration of sunrays through a magnifying glass.)
• Dhyana (The complete focussing of the mind-stuff on a single object. Its like a laser beam.)
• Samadhi (Becoming one with the object of meditation. To accomplish samadhi is to attain full knowledge of the object and have full power over it.)