Ashtangyog 

There are different ways to reach a desired common destination. In Yogic discipline there are four paths in an order of Yoga-Karma, Raja, Bhakti, and Jnana-all leading to the same centre of consciousness, Patanjalievolved eight stages on the path Yoga 

leads the individual from ignorance to knowledge, from darkness to light and from death to immortality.

• Yama 

• Niyama 

• Asanas 

• Pranayama 

• Pratyahara 

• Dharana 

• Dhyana 

• Samadhi

Netra-Sakti-Vikasaka 

Posture: Stand with your feet close together, your back erect and your head tilted back as far as it will go. 

Exercise: Concentrate with all your will, while looking at the spot between your two brows without blinking. The eyes must squint in doing so. When your eyes feel tired or start watering, discontinue the exercise and resume it after a short rest. For five minutes in the beginning. 

Benefits: This exercise produces stimulation of the nasociliaryplexus of the autonomic nervous system, as well as on the fibres of the nerves moving the eye-ball and internal structures of the eye. It improves the muscular power, balance and co-ordination of the various muscles that move the eye-ball. “This trātaka exercise cures all the diseases of the eyes, and prevents drowsiness. One should keep this trātaka exercise secret like a wellguarded treasure.”