Integrating Ancient Wisdom in Modern Life: Techniques and Self-Knowledge
- Yoga is an inner science where knowledge and techniques go hand to hand. Yoga is not about control or discipline but about achieving a sense of balance with techniques and self-knowledge.
- Everyone wants to be happy from the bottom of their heart. Still we are miserable. Why? Look around. Life is very simple; It is a blissful dance. And the whole earth except humans is full of joy and dance. Why? Because only human beings have the capacity to perceive that life is beyond happiness and unhappiness. That is their misery, how to go beyond.
- The journey of yoga, of union, is a journey to the unknown. But only a person who has become tired of the known will go on a journey toward the unknown.
- Yoga’s teaching starts from self-identity, to which we all are familiar. This is the uniqueness of Yoga that the journey of the unknown doesn’t threaten us. In a very affectionate environment, practice motivates us and in enthusiasm we start working on self-realisation.
- Obstacles in our journey towards self-realisation will be removed without any guilt or resistance. Obstacles are nothing but opaque screens created by our self-identity that block our self-realisation. Other obstacles are from our past life and its incompleteness. We all are carrying seeds of memories since the time existence has decided to manifest the un-manifestations.
- Purusha with Prakriti has made a play of the unmanifest to appear as the gross and again to merge from the gross to the unmanifest. So again after completion of the evolution cycle gross can merge into unmanifest. Human beings are responsible for their evolution. Prakriti can only guide you, and lead you towards un-manifestations.
- Yoga through various methods brings awareness to clear the opaque screen created by the mind, without challenging our identity or past memories. Everything is different because now there is no mind. The body is now not following the mind; the mind is not in the way. Now it is following awareness, the innermost quality of your being.
- Until we realise that the evolutionary process of humans is different than that of animals, we will live to survive and reproduce. The moment one realises that evolution is no longer auto piloting but self piloting, one will be ready to give up knowledge for the sake of knowing.
- Yoga teaches us to unplug from autopiloting and plug into self-piloting. Knowing means what cannot be taught one has to learn. It’s self-study. You are your own guide.
