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Shiva Samhita Treatise On Yoga

Shiva Samhita is one of those rare treatises about which, as usual in Hinduism,we know very little.

This esoteric work is about the Hatha Yoga, and along with Gheranda Samhita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, forms the three important sources of Hatha Yoga.

This is work on Tantra Shastra.

The authorship and date are unknown.

Some ascribe this to the Seventeenth Century.

Shiva Samhita talks about the complex physiology, names 84 different asanas (only four of which are described in detail), describes five specific types of prana, and provides techniques to regulate them.

How To Chant The Vedas

Svara, Note is very important.

Equally important is the Akshara, the syllables constituting the Swara..

The Swara and the letters are to rendered as grasped initially by the Rishis and expressed through the Vedas.

The recitation of Vedas is also conditioned by the Matras, the time taken to recite a Syllable and the pauses one makes while rendering the Vedas.

Neither the Sruthi, the syllable nor the intonation Swara should be in disharmony.

The synchronized rendering of Sruthi (Syllable) and Swara,Tone makes the rendering of the Vedas effective.

There are different ways/types of rendering the Vedas.

Rules have been set forth to combine words and syllables so that they are not altered.