Yoga is a way and a fruit.
Yoga is a mystical knowledge.
Ask yourself: what do you know about yoga? Your answer will be about yoga poses. That is the truth of our current life. You do not know what yoga means in its real meaning. Yoga came to us from India. This is a very ancient science about your inner nature and about the Universe. Himalayan yogis say: if you understand your inner nature you will understand a Universal low. There is only one Universal Law, which is penetrating all material life. And this is the law of Harmony. The name of this is Sanatana Dharma. This is not religion. This is that, what is beyond all the shapes and religions. Religions this is a creation of human minds, they can be changed and they are often changing. Some of them are dying, and some are coming into the world. But Sanatana Dharma is eternal. If all religions will be destroyed, Sanatana Dharma will exist forever. This is the basis of our life. This is not a human creation. This is the Low of the movement of vital power.
And yoga was born in this ancient culture in India. This is a part of this culture and to understand and to practice Yoga as a Sadhana, we need to learn Indian culture.
Yoga as a Sadhana.
We will understand yoga in different stages of life differently. And this is true. Yoga is a huge ancient knowledge and you can find everything for you in yoga and use yoga in many aspects of your life. You may use yoga as a physical training and yoga really helps. The world has a lot of real examples of when yoga really can help where medicine can't. For most people is already a lot, but just for several is very little.
You may use Yoga to increase your level of energy and yoga really is doing that. You will be full of energy, less stress and fatigue, more power for daily life and realise your wishes. For most people is already a lot, but just for several is very little.
You may be using it for meditation and it can help you in your daily life: getting creative ideas, solving problems, removing negative mental programmes, and relaxing the body and mind. And this is true as well. But for most people is already a lot, but just for several is very little.
And only one of a million will be interested in Yoga as a Sadhana.
Sadhana from Sanscrit means spiritual practice.
The final goal of Yoga is Moksha. Moksha is exiting from all conditioning states. Moksha is beyond all words. Maharishi patanjali gave in his sutras the meaning of Yoga as a Chitta Vritti Nirodhas. Stopping the mind vibrations. Stopping the mind vibrations is stopping the prana. When prana stopped the other process is opening. The process and opportunity to create! It is not creating something human. Normal people have enough prana to create and support their small material life. This is completely the other. Creating the worlds, physical bodies, and astral bodies, and travelling in different worlds using astral and even physical bodies. Can't believe it? But this is true. This is a level of Creator. And everyone has access to this power. And yogis in the Himalayan spend all their life to know this amazing science of life. They are absolutely crystal pure souls and that's why having access to this power. They are not interested in material life. They do not have attachments and desires.
Yoga covers all life. It is the process of purification of the soul from heavy Carma and step by step leading to non-attachment (Vairagya).
People are dividing Yoga into different Yogas: Bhakti Yoga ( devotional service), Jnana Yoga (yoga of knowledge), Hatha yoga (asanas and pranayama), Raga Yoga (meditation and Samadhi), Kundalini Yoga (awakening the Kundalini), Tantra (religious rituals) and much more. But all yogas are not separate. All yogas are one yoga! To understand it and to practice and move to Moksha many people need a serious Guru.
If you come to India and be lucky enough to meet real yogis in the Himalayan Mountains, not in yoga centres, where yoga is selling. You will see, that many of them absolutely do not do asanas. Because real Yoga is a Samadhi.
Anna Sustrinsh
International Yoga Alliance Certificate, India
Traditional Indian Yoga
47A Maude Avenue, Glenroy, Vic, Australia
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