Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the gurukula system? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Tradition in ancient india for
students to live in ashram from the age of 8 for 12 yearsto learn yoga.
What are the main points of swami Sivananda's life? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Medical
doctor serving in Malaysia
1932 Sivananda ashram rishikesh
1936 Divine life society
1948 yoga Vedanta forest academy
What's was swami Sivananda's main teaching? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The yoga of
synthesis. Serve love give purify meditate realize
What are the main points of swami vishnudevananda's life? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Army, rishikesh, west
First Sivananda yoga Vedanta center in Montreal
1962 Sivananda ashram yoga camp
1967 Sivananda yoga retreat in Nassau
1969 True world order
First TTC in 1969
1971 peace mission round the world
1983 Berlin Wall
What is the purpose of the TTC? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To train future leaders of
humanity in inner peace
What are the five points of yoga? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Proper exercise-yoga asana
Proper breathing-pranayama
Proper relaxation-savasana
Proper diet-vegetarian/sattvic
, Positive thinking and meditation- vedanta and dhyana
What are the four obstacles to the spiritual path? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Preconceived
ideas: set expectations that when not met, cause disharmony in your sadhana
Miscellaneous thoughts of ideas and duty: mind deprioritizes sadhana
Opposition from friends and family
Mind is unwilling to follow discipline
What is Brahman? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ultimate reality
What is Atman? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the self
What are the upadhis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Limiting adjuncts: body and mind.
What is maya? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Creative power of brahman
What is satchitananda? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Existence pure consciousness and bliss
absolute
What is Vedanta? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The concluding section of the vedas
What is avidya? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ignorance
What is isvara? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Brahman assuming qualities
What is jiva? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Individual soul (ignorance)
How did adi shankaracharya summarize advaita Vedanta? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Brahman alone is real
The world is an appearance