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MY YOGA JOURNEY

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    I was always an ‘A’ grade student since my school days. Even in boards i.e SSC and HSC I had scored very well and got my college admission in one of the top colleges of Mumbai. But somehow, my grades started started falling down in my graduation years. Initially, I thought it might be due to pressure as I was also pursuing CA along with my graduation. But unfortunately, I couldn’t clear the entrance exam itself despite giving it twice. I then switched to pursuing CS from CA. By God’s grace I cleared its entrance exam in one shot but got stuck at level 2 even after multiple trials. The pressure of clearing the exams, pressure from family, seeing friends doing well in their lives, fear of failure, low self confidence all started building up within me. While preparing for CS exams, I also gave entrance exam of LAW which I cleared scoring average marks. But something didn’t feel right. After giving a lot of thought and doing calculations towards my studies, my career, years le...
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Blog 5 : Yamas

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    Yamas and their complement, Niyamas, represent a series of ‘right living’ or ethical rules within Hinduism and Yoga. It means ‘reining in’ or ‘control’. These are restraints for proper conduct as given in the Veda. They are a form of moral imperatives, commandments, rules or goals. The Yamas are the ‘don’t do these’ list of self-restraints, typically representing commitments that affect one’s relations with others and self. The complementary Niyamas represent the ‘do these’ list of observances, and together Yamas and Niyamas are personal obligations to live well. Maharishi Patanjali considered the Yamas the great, mighty and universal vows. He instructs us that they should be practiced on all levels (actions, words and thoughts) and that they are not confined to class, place, time or concept of duty (Yoga Sutra 2.31).      The Five Yamas Of Yoga :   1.    Ahimsa           The word Ahimsa ...
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Blog 4 : Meditation - A State Of Mind

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       All organs of the body are important. But, the mind is the powerful one. It is the most wandering. When lust, anger, passion, fear, greed, conceit, proud, etc. are there in the mind, they influence the entire body.        It is said that light travels at about 3,00,000 kms in a second. But, the mind travels faster than the light. Mind is the spring of wants. If one want is satisfied, the other is there to attract the attention of the mind. The mind is related with the worldly aspects by sense organs and other working organs.        One of the major objectives of yoga is to acquire the skill of controlling the sense organs and stream lining the energy of the mind. Jap, Pranayama, Tapasya, Keertans, Bhajans, Meditation, etc. help in acquiring the above skill. Meditation is one of the powerful means to control the mind and regularise the thinking.        The main aim of yo...
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Blog 3 : The Eight Fold Path Of Patanjali

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  The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is divided into four chapters Pada. The first deals with Samadi, the second with the Means (Sadhana) to achieve Yoga, the third enumerates the Powers (Vibhuti) that the yogi comes across in his quest, and the fourth deals with Absolution (Kaivalya). The eight limbs or the eight fold path is in the second chapter.      Yamas           The first of these is Yama (ethical disciplines) - the great commandments transcending creed, country, age and time. They are : Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truth), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (continence) and Aparigraha (non-coveting). These commandments are the rules of morality for society and the individual, which if not obeyed bring chaos, violence, untruth, stealing, dissipation and covetousness. The roots of these evils are the emotions of greed, desire and attachment, which may be mild, medium or excessive. Maharishi Patanjali strikes at the...
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Blog 2 : Definition Of Yoga From Ancient Scriptures

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    Yoga is primarily a spiritual discipline that concentrates on subtle science that focuses on achieving harmony between an individual’s mind and body. The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word “yuj’ meaning to bind, attach, join and yoke, to direct and concentrate one’s attention on, to use and apply. It also means union or communion. It is the true union of our will with the will of God. ‘It thus means’, says Mahadev Desai in his introduction to “The Gita According To Gandhi”, ‘the yoking of all the powers of body, mind and soul to God, it means the discipling of the intellect, the mind, the emotions, the will which that yoga pre-supposes, it means a poise of the soul which enables one to look at life in all its aspects evenly.        Yoga is one of the six orthodox systems of Indian Philosophy. It was collated, coordinated and systematized by Maharishi Patanjali. In his classical work, The Yoga Sutras. In Indian thought, everything is pe...
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Blog 1 : Antarayas - The Obstacles In The Path Of Yoga

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  Maharishi Patanjali argues that mind cannot be looked upon as self-conscious or self-luminous in so far as it too can be made an object of consciousness. It is the mind that perceives the objects of the world and also the sense organs. General functioning of mind can be compared with that of a river. Just as a river comes into contact with the external objects through waves and ripples, mind also comes in contact with external objects through its modifications. In the way in which dirt and mud collected through contact through contact with external objects, in its turn, gives its color to the waves of the river, similarly, the impurities collected through contact with external objects give their color to the mental modifications. The mental modifications coloured with impurities blur the image of the self. Hence, for experience of self in its real form, mind should be made pure and clean by removing impurities.        In The Yoga Sutras, Maharishi Pa...
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