YOGA VALUES

What is Yoga? 

What is Yoga?  The word ‘yoga’ means union with or connecting up to God; when the individual spirit soul is focused completely on God – his mind, body, heart, his entire being is immersed in God.  This is the meaning of yoga.  This is the meaning of meditation. This is also the meaning of prayer. In yoga, one is experiencing full comfort, full protection, full security and full consciousness. In this condition of yoga the individual person is fully awake, fully alive and experiencing a type of inner joy.  He is happy within because of the condition of being linked up with God. Therefore, let us take on the practice of yoga.

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Real Beauty

Many people  in the world experience great sadness and pain because they believe they are ugly. People identify their bodies as themselves. Therefore if they have an ugly body, then they think, “I am ugly”.

 

Instead of being honest to the person who is ugly, there are all kinds of people in the world who are giving false so-called solutions to ugliness such as:  try to change the body so it becomes more beautiful than it is; or have a positive self-image or ‘feel beautiful and you will be beautiful’.

The real solution is to first understand that you are not the body. You are the beautiful spark of life, the spirit soul temporarily in this material body, this is how a person can experience their beauty, not by trying to change their face. You are not the body so the ugliness of the body is not your ugliness.

What each and everyone of us is looking for is someone to love us regardless of our face, our talents or our qualifications. And that someone is God.  He is the only One Who can and Who does actually love me unconditionally. 

So if we want to experience our real beauty as spirit soul temporarily in this body, and if we want to experience being really loved, then we have to experience yoga, union with God.  We have to learn the process of yoga and develop  our relationship with God.

                                                 ~0~

The Mind

When we speak of the mind, we are not just speaking of thoughts. We are speaking about the seat of all kinds of desires, feelings and emotions. The mind is always giving us directions, “ Do this, do that. This is where happiness lies. That is where happiness lies. If we are the servant of the mind then we cannot be a yogi or practitioner of yoga. 

‘Servant of the mind’ means I do what I do because I enjoy doing it. I make the choices that I make because that’s how my feelings are moving me. I become the monkey and my mind id my monkey master.

The problem is that as long as I am the servant of my mind, I am always bound to be frustrated. The only solution, the only way to achieve actual lasting happiness is by being the servant of God, not the servant of our mind. So that when the mind offers us this and that, then we are able to say, “Sorry, I’m not your servant anymore. I’m the servant of God. You, the mind are now my servant”. Our choice in life is we can either be the servant of God or we can be the servant of our mind.

All our entire lives we have been the servant of our mind and until now we have not actually achieved real lasting inner happiness. Therefore we should consider no longer remaining servants of our minds but actually finding satisfaction in serving God who is our best friend.

Our mind is not our best friend. Our mind is not dependable.  It is better to be the servant of someone Who is dependable, Who is actually our best friend, rather than being the servant of our minds.

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