Anna Yoga: The Yoga of Food
Jack Santa Maria
We live in a consumer society in an age of consumption.
We have to eat to live and should, therefore, make the most of it. Instead, we make a brief indulgence of eating which does nothing to provide us with any spiritual nourishment.
Vet the Hindu scriptures clearly indicate that our regular habits of eating and drinking can be practised in a better way. The act of consuming and all this implies covers areas of our lives that are rich in their potential for practicing awareness and meditation.
Our minds and bodies are formed by what is taken in (Chandogya Uppanishad) and Indian religious practice acknowledges food as potential power, potential embodiment, in this world. The universe itself is said to have emerged from an egg, thus all things find their origin in a basic source of food. From this central awareness of Brahman as the source of life has evolved the uniquely Indian spiritual attitude to food that Jack Santa Maria explores in this book.
Anna Yoga shows how Indian thought, as expressed through sacred writings and contemporary life, may be practically incorporated into daily life to nourish, enlighten and attune us with cosmic harmony.
Jack Santa Maria
We live in a consumer society in an age of consumption.
We have to eat to live and should, therefore, make the most of it. Instead, we make a brief indulgence of eating which does nothing to provide us with any spiritual nourishment.
Vet the Hindu scriptures clearly indicate that our regular habits of eating and drinking can be practised in a better way. The act of consuming and all this implies covers areas of our lives that are rich in their potential for practicing awareness and meditation.
Our minds and bodies are formed by what is taken in (Chandogya Uppanishad) and Indian religious practice acknowledges food as potential power, potential embodiment, in this world. The universe itself is said to have emerged from an egg, thus all things find their origin in a basic source of food. From this central awareness of Brahman as the source of life has evolved the uniquely Indian spiritual attitude to food that Jack Santa Maria explores in this book.
Anna Yoga shows how Indian thought, as expressed through sacred writings and contemporary life, may be practically incorporated into daily life to nourish, enlighten and attune us with cosmic harmony.
Jack Santa Maria
We live in a consumer society in an age of consumption.
We have to eat to live and should, therefore, make the most of it. Instead, we make a brief indulgence of eating which does nothing to provide us with any spiritual nourishment.
Vet the Hindu scriptures clearly indicate that our regular habits of eating and drinking can be practised in a better way. The act of consuming and all this implies covers areas of our lives that are rich in their potential for practicing awareness and meditation.
Our minds and bodies are formed by what is taken in (Chandogya Uppanishad) and Indian religious practice acknowledges food as potential power, potential embodiment, in this world. The universe itself is said to have emerged from an egg, thus all things find their origin in a basic source of food. From this central awareness of Brahman as the source of life has evolved the uniquely Indian spiritual attitude to food that Jack Santa Maria explores in this book.
Anna Yoga shows how Indian thought, as expressed through sacred writings and contemporary life, may be practically incorporated into daily life to nourish, enlighten and attune us with cosmic harmony.
