Yoga Quiz
THE FIRST LETTER OF EACH ANSWER WHEN PUT TOGETHER WILL MAKE THE TITLE OF A WELL-KNOWN HINDU SCRIPTURE.
1. A posture by which you make your body rear up like a snake.
2. The active Guna, always driving, keeps us busy, ever striving.
3. A lunar channel, very fine, descending to the base of the spine.
4. A plough is useful for the grower, legs over head, to the floor we lower.
5. Of eight-fold steps, this one will unquestionably be number three.
6. Before you tackle meditation, try to master concentration.
7. With Krishna as his charioteer, this Gita hero conquered fear.
8. If this is so, we’ll live again on earth, or some other plane.
9. He comes when righteousness is weak, to be a light to those who seek.
10. Salvation, Mukta, utter bliss, Samadhi, Buddhists heaven this is.
11. To keep injunctions we must strive, Patanjali has laid down five.
12. It’s set apart from wordly strife, this place to seek the inner life.
13. Like sleeping snake, this power lies, but wakened, up the spine will rise.
14. Through yoga practised day and night, we’ll surely know this inner light.
15. Just like a jack-knife, bent in two, this stretch is very good for you.
16. A seated posture of great power, it’s name denotes a lovely flower.
17. This blissful word is one of three, which signify Divinity.
18. The God of Death great patience showed, and on this youth, three boons bestowed.
19. A Hindu scripture, very terse, embodies truth in ever verse.
20. As still as death, when in this pose, we lie stretched out, from head to toes.
21. Sirsasana; the name for pose of universal fame.
22. Three gates to heal there are indeed. Which one lies next to “lust” and “greed”.
23. The word’s not easy to translate. It’s “duty”, our prescribed estate.
24. And just to even up the score, one question more, for twenty four. in this Upanishad we read the story of a mustard seed.
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ANSWERS:
1. Bhujangasana
2. Rajas
3. Ida
4. Halasana
5. Asana
6. Darana
7. Arjuna
8. Reincarnation
9. Avatar
10. Nirvana
11. Yamas
12. Ashram
13. Kundalini
14. Atman
15. Uttanasana
16. Padmasana
17. Ananda
18. Nachiketas
19. Isa Upanishad
20. Savasana
21. Head Stand
22. Anger
23. Dharma
24. Chandogya Upanishad
BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD
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