Yoga - A total about turn

Yoga is not a religion and it is not a philosophy. It is not something you can think about. It is something you will have to be; thinking won’t do. No amount of philosophies/ideologies will help. Yoga means going beyond the present physical, mental and emotional experiences of life. Not that yoga will make you numb to these experiences but will take you to a more pleasant and higher dimension of life.

Thinking goes on in our head. Key is to know the superficial nature of it and stop giving such importance to thought that we give to it today. Thoughts are not really deep into the roots of your being. It is not your totality, it is just a part, a functional part. Yoga is concerned with your total being, with your roots.

It is only when we stop identifying our existence with the thoughts that goes on ceaselessly like a mental diarrhea in our head that we can start to give less and less importance to it. Stop identifying with it.

Yoga helps you see clearly that your existence, that your being is very much independent from the accessories of your being that we call thoughts and emotions. Yoga takes this control that thoughts and emotions have and gives it back to you.

So, yoga helps you take an about turn. Turn your awareness to your inner self. It kick starts your inner journey. The biggest barrier to cross is the huge field of thoughts. Thoughts are like ripples in an otherwise calm and absolutely still lake. Due to this incessant ripples base of the lake never becomes clearly visible and whatever we see through this is nothing but a distorted version of reality.

So the first thing to remember is that thoughts are yours and not the real You and that which is yours can be shed. That which is yours can be started and stopped at will. Know that thoughts are your making (your karma) which will have its desired effect. However significant or insignificant your thought is know that you have created it and you are the master of it. Move yourself from a compulsive thought process to a conscious thought process and finally to a stage of complete thoughtlessness at will and free yourself from all previous causes and their upcoming effects (otherwise this cycle of cause and effect never stops and goes on endlessly).

Remember space is infinite and so is time. so you have all the time in the world to remain in bondage, remain a slave to your own thoughts and emotions. Slavery of this inner world manifests itself into all other types of slavery in the external world.

So you have the option to see the vanity of it and turn inward and empower yourself and ultimately set yourself free.