Talk:Reducing Bad Karm and Adding Good Karm:Lessening Evil Karm:Yogic Practices
From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia
By Vishal Agarwal
The practice of yog and meditation are great purifiers. Details on how intense meditation can destroy the latent effects of evil karm is described in brief in Section 11.7 above. Even practices preparatory to meditation like prāṇāyāma enable one to destroy some pāpa –
But as a strong gale scatters the clouds accumulated in the sky, so does the practice of prāṇāyāma shatter the pāpa that a brāhmaṇa accumulates by accepting gifts. Atri Saṁhitā 1.142
Through the power of practice of yog, all pāpas are destroyed. Therefore, one should always do virtuous deeds and practice yog diligently. Hārita Smṛti 7.3