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Swamy Shivananda on yoga
Yoga is a perfect and practical system of self-culture. Yoga is an
exact science, it aims at the harmonious development of the body, the
mind and the soul.
Yoga is the turning away of the senses from the objective universe
and concentrating it on the mind within. Yoga is eternal life in the
spirit.
Yoga aims at controlling the mind and its modifications. The path of
yoga is an inner path, whose gateway is your heart.
Yoga is the discipline of the mind, the senses and the physical body.
It helps to control and co-ordinate the subtle forces within the body.
Yoga brings perfection, peace and everlasting happiness. Yoga helps
you in your business and also in your daily life. Through yoga you
can have a calm mind and a peaceful sleep.
Through yoga you can also have increased energy, vigour, vitality,
longevity and a high standard of health. Yoga transmutes your animal
nature into divine nature. It raises you to the pinnacle of divine
glory and splendour.
The practice of yoga will help you to control your emotions and
passions. It will give you the power to resist temptations and to
remove disturbing elements from the mind.
Yoga enables you to keep a balanced mind always. It removes fatigue.
It confers on you serenity, calmness, and wonderful concentration. It
will enable you to hold communion with the Lord and thus attain self-
realisation.
If you want to attain success in yoga you will have to abandon all
worldly enjoyments. You will have to practise tapas, (austerity) and
brahmacarya (celibacy).
To curb the mind you have to use intelligent and judicious methods -
because, if you use force, the mind becomes more turbulent and
mischievous. Those who try to control the mind by force are like
those who endeavour to bind a furious elephant with a silken thread.
Serve - Love - Give - Meditate - Purify - Realise (Goal of life is God-Realisation - Swami Sivananda)
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 26, Mar 2004 11:32:54 PM IST
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