Yoga, a process of intense enthusiasm
Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda
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Many
translate Yoga as 'union'. Please understand, Yoga is not 'union'. It is
'uniting'. Yoga is not a noun. Yoga is a verb. Yoga is not an end result. Yoga
is a process. It is a process of intense enthusiasm.
Krishna says in the Gita
clearly that Yoga is what you have to be, without expectations and without
attachments. It is not doing but being.
There is nothing to achieve by
practicing Yoga. You will be shocked to hear this. Many people have told you
that Yoga will cure you of asthma, it will cure you of chronic pain, it will
cure you of high blood pressure and so on. Perhaps it does; but not because of
what you practice, but because you believe.
Especially in the west, Yoga
is sold as a product; either a cheap or expensive product depending on where the
teacher is located. If you practice this asana, they say, you will be cured of
this and that. It has become a prescription medicine.
I saw an advertisement for an
Instant Super-luxury Kundalini Yoga offered at thousands of dollars. Patanjali,
who formulated the technique of Yoga, will roll in his samadhi if he comes to
know about it! The only person who benefits is the advertiser, not the user!
It is the process of Yoga, the
practice of Yoga that unites the mind-body-spirit system. What unites is not the
exercises that you perform. This again will shock you. It is the intention. You
create a memory in your muscles and that gets embedded.
It is essential to start any
Yoga practice with a clear intention of what you wish: it may be health, it may
be enlightenment; whatever it is make a positive intention. Before you perform
the asana, the exercise, with full awareness of that intent visualise the
posture you plan to adopt. Go through in your mind every single step of that
asana. Then practice that asana.
Just by sitting comfortably in
any position with your spine erect to allow energy flow you can derive the
result of any asana through intention and visualisation. This is the truth.
However, this is too simple for you to believe. You need something more
tangible, more strenuous to prove to yourself that Yoga works.
Then, practice Surya Namaskar,
the most integrated of all Yogasana. Start with a clear intent, visualise all
steps and do the process. You need nothing more. This is what we teach in our
Nithya Yoga programmes. Be in Bliss!
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