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Spiritual Benefits Of Tadasana
What are the spiritual benefits from practicing tadasana, and is there a website that lists spiritual benefits of all the asanas
( 6 Mar 2009)
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Benefits Of Tadasana
The benefits of Tadasana (Mountain pose) are as follows:
- Helps develop better posture and corrects postural weaknesses, if practised everyday
- Tones up the leg muscles, strengthens the knees, ankles and thighs
- Gives firm buttocks and abdomen
- Alleviates symptoms of sciatica
- Cure for flat feet (by practising lifting the legs through the arches)
Some of the limitations include the fact that it is inappropriate for patients experiencing insomnia, headache and low blood pressure, in which cases it is best that people avoid doing the pose.
Normally, people practise Tadasana as the preliminary pose for standing postures, between standing postures, or as a standalone pose to improve their posture. As far as the spiritual benefits are concerned, they depend on the attitude with which you practise.
Yoga is basically a spiritual discipline. It is also a holistic approach to life, a science and art of living aimed at attaining the ultimate that is Self realization. We are referring, here, to the Ashtanga Yoga of the sage Patanjali, consisting of the eight fold path. The steps are:
- Yamas (Restraints)
- Niyamas (Observances)
- Asanas (Postures)
- Pranayamas (Breathing Techniques)
- Pratyahara (Withdrawal of senses)
- Dharana (Concentration)
- Dhyana (Meditation) and
- Samadhi (Superconscious state, the result of the previous stages)
No single asana (physical posture), pranayama (breathing exercise), mudra (hand gesture), kriya (cleansing technique) or meditation will give you the desired spiritual benefits. The spiritual benefits of the whole package, practiced over a period of time are peace of mind, good overall health, calmness, equilibrium, balanced state in all situations, clarity of mind and heart. This again comes only when practising everything with the right bhavas (attitudes). These bhavas (attitudes) have been adopted from Yoga’s twin philosophy, Samkhya, and are four in number:
- Dharma (Duty)
- Jnana (Knowledge)
- Vairagya (Renunciation)
- Aishwarya (Self reliance)
Before performing an asana (physical posture), pranayama (breathing exercise), mudra (hand gesture) or kriya (cleansing technique), sit in meditation for a while and, first and foremost, ask yourself the following questions:
- Am I doing my duty, or am I doing this action with a sense of duty or just perfunctorily? If so, you will do it well, because any act worth doing is worth doing well.
- Am I doing it with full knowledge or with a view to learn something, or just routinely and robotically?
- Am I expecting the fruits of this action now, or sometime in the future, or am I doing it for it’s own sake – like art for art’s sakes – with an attitude of ‘let go’? There is a definite in the quality of results in both cases.
- Finally, am I self reliant in this act, that is to say dependent, independent or interdependent. The last realization is the most prudent.
If you live life with these attitudes, not just asanas (poses), all of life’s activities will result in tremendous spiritual benefits.
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answered by A on 6 Mar 2009, 3:45:34
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