Find The Heart's Light

Yoga is born in ancient India, it is have records and theorial research since 15 centries before Christian era. The yoga theory is a important philosophical school, its theory deep and complicated, however,the modern people just take yoga as a simple way to keep fit. In fact, yoga's practice towards inner spirit and heart is more important to body's physical exercise, the real thing that yoga pursues is the exceeding of inner heart. The purpose of this thesis is to explain that yoga is a practical way which initiates the harmony between body and heart, it need us to practice and form a calm psychology and a exceeding value sense, the body's exterior practice is actually serve for the heart in main. The modern yoga pays attention to the body's practice, it is a part of yoga, but not the key part, however, because yoga is wide spread as the way to keep fit, and the way is familiarized and accepted by people, so people think this is yoga. This thesis tries to correct people's prejudice towards yoga and to tell people what is real yoga. Yoga is a philosophy originally, it is a aesthetics yet. Just because few aesthetic scholars pay attention to yoga since aesthetics produces,in addition, the spread way of modern yoga make prejudice to people, so yoga can not be listed in the research category of aesthetics. But yoga and aesthetics have many correlations as a matter, yoga can completely be the research object of aesthetics. Although author has limited ability, but I try my best to excavate the aesthetics theory that yoga reflect from yoga's body and heart practice. This thesis emphasizes the harmony between body and heart of yoga especially the heart purify theory, it expounds the value that yoga towards inner beauty of art, and connect it with the aesthetic ideology of Chinese Taoist school. Yoga's aesthetic judgment state about the linking of Brahman and ourselves is have some same and different places with the Chinese philosophical and aesthetic ideology about world and human combine as one. In this agitated and secular society, yoga can rescue people's heart in some degree.