The Benefits Of Yoga: Efficiency In Work Is Yoga!
...Sometimes what a voluminous book can not explain can be explained in a single sentence! It is true about yoga. Yoga is not mere a word; it is a vast subject with many dimensions.
The wise saying goes, Yoga karmasu kaushalam!' which means, Efficiency in work is yoga!
What you do is not important. How you do, what you do is important!
Yoga also means union. What union? Whether union between the body and the mind? Or, the mind and the spirit? The traditionally accepted belief (or truth, depending upon the level of your spiritual progression) is the union between the Jeevatman and the Paramatman- between one's individual consciousness and the Universal Consciousness.
Yoga is a very vast subject. Attempting even an introduction to it in a small article is impossibility. Nevertheless, some important observations need to be u...more
gym Or Yoga - Take Your Pick
...Going to gym is a fad. The whole world is catching up with it. By 2020, at least a fourth of the population in the western world will be obese. So what can we do?
Join a gym- as some friends will say. Yoga is good for health too. So is tai-chi. That can make anyone confused. What is the best option?
Let us have a quick look at what each of these exercises have to offer.
Doing anaerobic exercises in a gym involves a lot muscular activity. The bodys m...more
The Journey Of Yoga Through Mind
...Yoga is a transformative art, and deceptively simple. At least, although the advanced yoga postures are in fact difficult to the unpracticed, and look it, the changes that yoga can bring into one's life belie the apparent simplicity of stretching muscles.
After all, we stretch muscles at the gym during a warm up. So what is the basic difference between yoga and regular workouts, including pilates. Pilates, after all, took some of its inspiration from yoga. Or at least the aspect of yoga that is made of the physical exercises, the asanas.
Yoga integrates the breath and consciousness with physical stretches in a way that I haven't even felt in pilates, although pilates is great as a way of strengthening the internal muscles of the body as well, particularly the pelvic floor.
But in yoga, through the breath, and focusing on i...more
Yoga Instructor Aspects - Finding the Guru Within
...ncrete ideals. The secret of all rapid and startling spiritual development is man-worship. By man-worship, I mean devotion to, reverence, intense and all-absorbing passion, for the perfect individual man of realization - a Mahapurusha.
Christ, Buddha, and Vivekananda, were all such-type men. You must constantly, and thoughtfully, meditate upon the lives and writings of saints and heroes. The formative influence and valuable powers of study and meditation, upon lofty ideas and ideals, are incalculable."
Please do not want to take Swami Mukerji's words out of context, but people have historically been cynical. In societies, with different cultural backgrounds, from India, the G...more
