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#1 05-06-2007 11:01:00

dattaswami
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True Essence of Yoga

True Essence of Yoga


Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning. When you say a face as a moon, fools search for moon in that face. But, wise people see similarity in the face and moon. Similarly, wheels and lotus flowers should not be searched in the spinal card. Spinal card is the main nerve, representing mind, which is the base of love.

All these wheels or lotus flowers are the bonds of love in the various relatives like parents, wife or husband, children etc. They are compared to wheels or the revolving whirlpools in the ocean, which attract a swimmer and drown him. Similarly, these love wheels are compared to lotus flowers, since the lotus flowers attract the bee by sweet fragrance and bind it. Similarly, these love flowers attract any one and bind them. “Kundalini” is the mind which is the energy travelling as waves like a serpent, should cross all these love wheels connected to 7th lotus flower in the head called “Sahasrara”, which is Buddhi or intelligence that takes the decision, which is the firm love on God.

Bhagavat Gita is called as the main scripture of Yoga (Yoga-Sastra). Why there is not even single reference to these wheels or lotus flowers in anywhere in Gita or even in Upanishats? Since they are not real, they are not even mentioned. The author of the Gita was Krishna, who was called Master of Yoga (Yogeswara). Krishna also says that the real yoga was lost since long (Sa kaleneha mahata….). This means that in the beginning, Sages in India knew the real yoga and loved God only crossing all their family bonds. In due course of time only, this true yoga was lost. Why? The middle age Indians were unable to cross their family bonds and so failed to succeed in Yoga.

They wanted to cover their in ability by twisting the very concept of yoga. The family bonds were removed from the concept and only wheels or lotus flowers are left fixed. Now, they close the eyes and say that they have seen the lotus flowers or wheels, which are only imaginary. Now they cross these wheels by their imaginary “Kundalini” and say that they have succeeded in Yoga. These blind teachers are also not to be blamed, because they were trained like that by their blind teachers. This misinterpretation was done long time back and hence, even at the time of Krishna, He told that yoga was lost since a long time.

We cannot catch those original culprits, who were the top most twisting masters and so the present tradition also cannot be blamed. Only rectification is the way left over. Some say that they see light, which is only an imagination. After all, the mind is a form of energy and on its concentration imaginary light can be imagined. Instead of such a week light, you better see a strong light with your open eyes. What is the use of these imaginary lights and colours, without achieving the Lord through your love, which excels the various worldly, loves.

I pity the foreigners, who are trapped in this false imaginary line of yoga, who are wasting their precious lifetime and energy. In fact, they are the best to succeed in yoga, if the reality of the yoga is exposed. Their family bonds are very weak and their love towards God is real, which is proved by their huge sacrifice of money to God’s work. Money is the fruit of work and its sacrifice for God’s work is “Karma phala tyaga” as mentioned in Gita. Again, the middle age Indians twisted this word “Karma phala tyaga” as sacrifice of the fruit of the work like praying God instead of sacrifice of money.

The reason was that these Indians were unable to sacrifice money to God due to their strong love on their children. Foreigners ask their children to earn after certain age. Indians store money even for ten generations and still continue to store only. Since prayers, meditation and knowledge are very much diverted to God, India was blessed by God with good language, good mind and good knowledge.

Since foreigners are good in sacrifice, God blessed them with good wealth. Even Indian spiritual centres were strongly funded by foreigners only. Swami Vivekananda cried, “Why my India suffers with poverty in spite of so much spiritual knowledge?” Sacrifice of money (Karma phala tyaga) and sacrifice of work (karma Sanyasa) put together constitute the God’s service, which is the real Yoga (real proof of love) called “Karma yoga” in Gita. Foreigners are the best in this karma yoga and so they easily succeed in yoga. Throughout Gita, this karma yoga was explained as yoga and wheels or lotus flowers are not at all mentioned.

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#2 07-06-2007 06:19:22

Ambrina
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Re: True Essence of Yoga

Hi,

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all people, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature or spirit.

Like the healing light of the sun, yoga is beneficial equally to people of the East and to people of the West. The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest need exists for yoga: the science of mind control

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#3 07-06-2007 11:48:37

dattaswami
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Re: True Essence of Yoga

It has become the fashion of the day to use the word Yoga for every activity.  Yoga means simply attainment.  But attainment of what?  is important. The Yoga shastra of Patanjali uses this word strictly in the attainment of Eswara (Lord).  To render service (practical devotion) to the Lord, mental and physical health is needed.  The early five stages (Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama and Pratyahara) concentrate on this attainment of physical and mental health.  Afterwards the other three stages (Dharana, Dhayana and Samadhi) deal with the main subject of attainment of the Lord.

Present preachers are stopping with the early five steps only and limiting their efforts by turning their spiritual work shops in to gymnasiums, hospitals and recreation centers.  By this you are preaching the art of peaceful and happy living on this earth.  If you stop here, the main goal of Patanjali Yoga is totally lost. A Boy who is admitted to the school is given fees and good food. He is expected to go to the school and study.  But, he goes to the cinema theatre and uses the fees to purchase the ticket for cinema.  This is the fate of Yoga today.  The Yoga centre teaches all the steps to attain physical health by the first four steps and mental health by the fifth step.

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#4 07-06-2007 11:49:58

dattaswami
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Re: True Essence of Yoga

In Pravrutti (Path of Justice) today the dignified statement is that one is working in U.S.A. But, if you go and really see him there, he will be working as a labor!  Similarly, in Nivrutti (path of loveing service to God) the dignified statement is that one is practicing Yoga.  But if you go and really see him in the Yoga centre, he will be doing certain exercises to attain mental and physical health. He has no connection with spiritual field.  Yoga is purely spiritual field.  Mental and physical health is needed not only for spiritual field but also needed for materialism.  It is a general basic requirement of the life of even an atheist. 

        Hanuman is the top most star in Yoga in all the steps.  His physical and mental health is in climax.  He did not open a workshop to guide the professional carrier of people on the earth.  After attaining the best physical and mental health and after completing the studies of both Pravrutti and Nivrutti from Sun, He realized that meeting the then human incarnation was the real Yoga. He was waiting on the hill of Kishkindha to meet Lord Rama.  All His mental and physical health was used completely in the service of Lord Rama.  He did not use it in His professional carrier.  We will be astonished to see that He dedicated all His vigor in the personal service of Rama to search and get back His wife.  He did not use it in His personal service.

Just this is the difference between the present people in Yoga centre who use the results of the preliminary Yoga (Mental and Physical health) for their personal work and Hanuman who used the same results for the personal work of Rama.  In this preliminary Yoga, you have to replace yourself and your family by God.  Up to the work needed to maintain yourself and your family, which is needed to serve the mission of God there is no sin in using the strength of mental and physical health obtained by preliminary Yoga.  But to use it for unlimited ambition with selfishness is a sin. For such sinners, the only way to enter the spiritual field is to shell down the excess earned by sin in the mission of God on this earth (Karma Phala Tyaga).  When a rich man approached Jesus, He suggested such total sacrifice of the sinful money as a pre-requisite to enter the spiritual field.

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