WHAT IS YOGA
#1 Yoga Means Union
Yoga is not about bending and twisting your body or holding your breath. It is a mechanism and a technology to get you to that state of experience where you see reality just the way it is.
The word “Yoga” literally means “union.”
Yoga means to know the union of your existence by experience.
#2 Yoga Signifies a Complete Path by Itself
Modern science is proving to you that the whole existence is just one energy. The religions of the world have been saying for a long time that God is everywhere. Whether you say, “God is everywhere,” or you say, “Everything is one energy,” we are talking about the same reality.
In the western part of the world, if you utter the word “Yoga,” people think of impossible physical postures. This is a very distorted idea of what Yoga is.
The moment you attach the word “Yoga,” it indicates it is a complete path by itself.
Yoga Means to Break the Cycle of Life
All aspects of physicality in the universe are cyclical. Planets are going around the sun, the solar system is moving, and everything in the galaxy and the cosmos is cyclical. The more you are identified with your physical system, the more cyclical you are. Your experiences and the process of life is cyclical. If you watch carefully enough, even the situations that you face in your life come in cycles.
#4 Yoga Means Liberating Yourself from Memory
Repetitive cycles of compulsiveness are happening because there are various types of memories in the system. There is a huge volume of memory – genetic memory, evolutionary memory, elemental memory, atomic memory, karmic memory, inarticulate memory, and articulate memory. If this memory was not there, your body would not even take a form. There are so many billions of people on the planet, but everyone took this form – two legs, two hands, two eyes. When you were in your mother’s womb, your body knew it has to take on this form. If the memory was not there, we do not know what form it would have taken.
Even your thoughts, emotions, compulsions as to what you like, dislike, whom you love, whom you do not love, is all by memory. It is already past. You loved someone yesterday and are living with that memory today. You disliked someone yesterday and are living with that memory. If you are trying to live that which is over, that which is will bypass you.
Yoga means to liberate yourself from that information which determines who you are right now. That information which determines the color of your skin and the shape of your body should not determine how you think, feel, and experience your life. If that information does not determine how you are right now, then you are moving into Yoga.
#5 Yoga is a Technology for Transformation
Everything that human beings can do is essentially an expression of who they are. Someone sings a song, someone dances, someone writes a book, someone paints a picture. You may be conscious of it or not, but everything that you say and do is essentially an expression of who you are.
Yoga is diametrically opposite to this because it is not an expression of who you are; it is about determining who you are; it is about changing the very fundamentals of one’s existence.
Yoga is not about bending and twisting your body or holding your breath. It is a mechanism and a technology to get you to that state of experience where you see reality just the way it is.
The word “Yoga” literally means “union.”
Yoga means to know the union of your existence by experience.
#2 Yoga Signifies a Complete Path by Itself
Modern science is proving to you that the whole existence is just one energy. The religions of the world have been saying for a long time that God is everywhere. Whether you say, “God is everywhere,” or you say, “Everything is one energy,” we are talking about the same reality.
In the western part of the world, if you utter the word “Yoga,” people think of impossible physical postures. This is a very distorted idea of what Yoga is.
The moment you attach the word “Yoga,” it indicates it is a complete path by itself.
Yoga Means to Break the Cycle of Life
All aspects of physicality in the universe are cyclical. Planets are going around the sun, the solar system is moving, and everything in the galaxy and the cosmos is cyclical. The more you are identified with your physical system, the more cyclical you are. Your experiences and the process of life is cyclical. If you watch carefully enough, even the situations that you face in your life come in cycles.
#4 Yoga Means Liberating Yourself from Memory
Repetitive cycles of compulsiveness are happening because there are various types of memories in the system. There is a huge volume of memory – genetic memory, evolutionary memory, elemental memory, atomic memory, karmic memory, inarticulate memory, and articulate memory. If this memory was not there, your body would not even take a form. There are so many billions of people on the planet, but everyone took this form – two legs, two hands, two eyes. When you were in your mother’s womb, your body knew it has to take on this form. If the memory was not there, we do not know what form it would have taken.
Even your thoughts, emotions, compulsions as to what you like, dislike, whom you love, whom you do not love, is all by memory. It is already past. You loved someone yesterday and are living with that memory today. You disliked someone yesterday and are living with that memory. If you are trying to live that which is over, that which is will bypass you.
Yoga means to liberate yourself from that information which determines who you are right now. That information which determines the color of your skin and the shape of your body should not determine how you think, feel, and experience your life. If that information does not determine how you are right now, then you are moving into Yoga.
#5 Yoga is a Technology for Transformation
Everything that human beings can do is essentially an expression of who they are. Someone sings a song, someone dances, someone writes a book, someone paints a picture. You may be conscious of it or not, but everything that you say and do is essentially an expression of who you are.
Yoga is diametrically opposite to this because it is not an expression of who you are; it is about determining who you are; it is about changing the very fundamentals of one’s existence.
