Yoga is not a modern invention of human mind, but our ancient and prehistoric possession. Yoga is not religious as common people believe. Aurobindo says “All religion is a flower of which Yoga is the root”. What does Yoga to a person? It will make a person to to attain physical, mental and spiritual health. This is what most often explained when you need a definition.
Does it mean that those who are doing Yoga in this world are attained with the above mentioned 3 healths? No. When we find hardly people following the discipline involved in Yoga, how can they project this alternative way among world? Do you agree that the trained professionals follow all the discipline of this alternative? If you agree, then it cannot be propagated to the entire world unless and until they become disciplined. Let me come to the next fact. Yoga has reached and discussed widely for the recent couple of decades. Even it was found in ancient times, it grabbed its strength in recent times. Why does this Yoga was not popular on ancient times or even before 20 years? Does it mean that people lived before 20 years didn’t have any tension, stress? Why they were not aware of Yoga when they had tensions? To explain this, I would like to go for the next fact.
Who were the perfect Yoga masters? Who did Yoga and followed the rules? May be I can put this question in this way. Why was yoga propagated, practiced and preached by only people who do not involve themselves in physical labor? Why it was not preached by someone who involved in physical labor? 70% of people in this world are involved in physical labor. And people who are mastered in Yoga have only Yoga to do and nothing else to do like others. That is the reason, they can talk anything about peace and tension. When people engage themselves in work, obviously they get mental pressure and right from ancient times people have these pressures. And Yoga was not the only way to get rid of these pressures. How did they got their peace? Hope you could have an answer by this time for the question raised in your mind.
When no one is following this alternative way of living art, how can they simply propagate it to world? I am not protesting against Yoga. My strong view is, we are all involved in physical labor and we cannot show or attain full efficiency in Yoga. The people who dedicate themselves to Yoga only can attain its original pleasure(?). So, I don’t believe in any short camps where they say 2 times a day makes your body pure. How many are following that 2 times a day practice? If they do, their regular work gets affected and this oath fades out in 10 days. At last they probably regret why they cant continue and never take initiatives to continue. Human mind works like that. Regular work? Yes, you do all have some regular work in your day today life and this alternate way of leaving is added up extra in your leisure time.
I understand that you all have this question in mind that only people who dedicate can do Yoga and others can’t? My answer would be yes. You cannot master in Yoga or attain the 3 healths in Yoga within a short campaign. Yoga is a living art and it will not be accomplished in short time. So, the camps and 2 times practice makes your metabolism, health everything good. Thats all. It do not help your body or mind in any other way. But all these can be done with simple ways. Regulate your food habits, sleep for 10 hours and say me the difference in your health. If you follow these 2 simple things, your metabolism gets pured naturally without any alternate ways.
There are some private organizations who advertise people that they will teach the art of living. Now, just remember what I have told. They will conduct a initial camp with basic aasanas. Then they will definitely will call for further campaigns to attain its full efficiency. And those who say “No” are explained with negative aspects. They will say, you need to continue for 2nd campaign for the further level of purification. Why don’t they say this first when they initially advertise? When you say there is more levels, people will think hard to join. So, they break up this into modules and advertise. I would call this as wrong way of mobilizing a living art. Just attending one campaign and not others is no way to help your health.
Now, the main fact.This is my personal perspective and I strongly rely on this. Yoga controls your anger and gives peace, reduces tension. Anger: More Powerful Than Desire. This is how anger is defined. When you do Yoga, it will reduce your anger, frustration, tension, stress and day by day Yoga eradicates all the above mentioned habits. Wow, what a life you will have. No, it is not correct. There is perfect example I can come with. Think a person can eat a banana only if he can walk for some kilometers and climb high. How can that person eat a banana regularly? That person will definitely gets bugged and he should have invented wheels to take him to the place. So, my point is when a person gets irritated or bugged, then only new inventions are made! Creations are born! And if Yoga kills this irritation, then probably he would have lost his appetite and stayed calm. There wouldn’t be an Edison or Fermi or Deere. They all became the greatest inventors only when they got disappointed or bugged in finishing a task which was hard! Their name stand among a crore of peoples and those crore of people managed their anger, frustration, tension and stress. I want my name to stand among a crore of people rather than being one among those crore of people. But, I didn’t mean that people who control their anger did not succeed in their life.
Take yourself as a best example. (People can link this example according to their profession like editing, journalism, etc.) You are writing a code for a program and it throws with minor warnings and error. Do you get irritated? Yes, out of your irritation, you will think hard and will try with the new code to fix it. This is how Edison, Einstein, Ford or anyone would have thought and ended up with their inventions. Do not get compromised with your faults. Inventions and sophistications where born and made only by the people who felt angry. Instead of this, you control your irritation or anger what would have happened? You would have been in a mind set saying that the code has only minimal warnings and it will not affect. This was the difference I am trying to point everyone out!.
The last fact I would like to point out is Yoga will purify your metabolism. Does it mean that you can eat anything and do Yoga, it will cure and purify? If Yoga is such a miraculous medicine, then one can lead the life in any manner.But it is not a miraculous medicine. You should control your food habits and regulate your timing to have food. If you normally do this, you will be healthy and Yoga do not make miracles with this normal agenda. In fact before writing this post I discussed with one of my senior friend. I was asking him about Guru Jaggi Vasudev and his speech. It seems that he attended sometime ago. The reply I got from him made me like even he can talk the way what Guru Jaggi Vasudev did.
He pointed out the ambiance created over there. A mild sitar music and hall covered with white cloths. Thats really a peaceful ambiance created. Then he told that if he had talked in such a hall, probably everyone will listen him too. Speaking cleverly is important and thats how they survive. I simple threw my next question saying to him like “Imagine that ambiance is here and I am ready to listen you” speak now. Immediately he asked me what to speak and I said tension. This is what he spoked about tension.
“Ha, people!, he wants me to talk about tension. He wants to control his tension and he came here. You all want to reduce and control your tension. That is the reason you came here and you all believe me that this man, myself can reduce and control your tension. Now this is my tension on reducing your tension”. Hows that speech? Imagine the same speech in a hall covered with white cloths. A mild sitar music and no sound other than that. Probably he will sound to be a great Yogi for all the people and they will listen to him. And when he speaks, he comes in a white long cloth and when he comes out, he comes out with modern costumes!
Live for yourself. Life is a mixture of happiness, sorrows, burdens, frustration and fame. It will be good only if you have all these essence. Else you will taste only same and nothing will be interesting in your life. Manage your skills and habits. Show your feelings at least to yourself and never get compromised with your faults. Last but not the least, Yoga is always good for you and you can attain its full effect only if you dedicate yourself to it. Without your involvement fully, you cannot get any effect for life long.
Being alone is something everyone needs from time to time. Being alone is the very creator of our character. Everyone fears being alone at some point in their life, whether it be going down to eat or walking to the store. Everyone wants someone else to be there as a back-up, as a provider of strength. But, the times that I do things alone are the things that I feel I accomplished the most. Because, I provided all of that strength myself, on my own.
