Yoga and Total Health Magazine

Editorial by Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra

There is a difference between doing a job hurriedly with poor attention and doing it well with devotion and dedication. We see this happening all the time around us be it in the factory or office or home. Most of the time it seems the work is not so important as somehow finishing it is important. Unfortunately in this approach of ours we are harming ourselves personally.

A good yogic student carrying on a meditation practice forgets the environment and remains fully absorbed in the experience that comes through his Sadhana (serious self-study). It is like in a serious surgical operation, the surgeon is concerned with saving the life of the patient. He does not allow his mind to waver. So also a good student of Yoga is looking at himself or herself deeply looking at thoughts, attitudes and infact the entire personality. He or she does not allow the mind to waver.

This is the kind of meditation that the ancient Rsi or a Buddha or Mahavira practiced. Madhavadasji selected his cela put his hands on his head and the cela remained in deep meditation. After some hours when Madhavadasji returned and tapped the cela to ask what had he decided”, the cela just said “I follow you.” He had got a new experience sitting there quietly.

Yoga and Total Health Magazine - August 2006 Issue

Yoga Sutra of Patanjali by Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra
The objects for concentration are different when one is looking forward to gaining of unusual power. The objects have been carefully selected. Of course there are some interpreters who take different meanings of the objects concentrated upon Dhruva is the pole star which remains fixed. Concentrating on that fixed star one is able to naturally detect the movements of other moving objects. However when this word Dhruva is interpreted as the Susmana nadi then the claim is that it being the central nervous system its mastery can lead to different psychological experiences. One should maintain continuous and prolonged concentration in the given object, then many other matters will get clarified.

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Excerpts from some of the articles in the current issue:

KARMA YOGA By Harry Sequeira
Throughout our life we perform actions. “Not for a moment can man, nor God (metaphysically speaking) can stop action, if stopped the universe will come to an end”. Sri Krisna. Action is to be performed without the ego sense, says Sri Krisna.

Action, fruit of action, instruments of actions (our senses, Prana, mind, even the soul) has to be (symbolically, at first) offered to the divine. Then all action will upgrade to the divine cause.

One of our sadhakas tries to do this consciously. First to arrive in the office she lights agarbhatti (incense), thinking of God. Then she requests for his help and guidance when she has to deal with sub-ordinates, tamasic, fighter-cocks, demonically unionized, and “kam-chors” (shirkers) and throughout her long day she keeps this idea of Karma Yoga in her mind. Ceaselessly and with a cheerful disposition she attends to all the clients……..

Yogin – The Sensitive Mountain? By Andrew Lewitt
Yoga recommends becoming as strong as the mountain. There is a story of man who built a glass house in the desert. A sandstorm came and broke the glass. The man rebuilt the house in stone. A sandstorm came, the house was undamaged .In this story, the sandstorm represents life’s problems, which keep coming .We must build our strength so that when these inconveniences come they do not damage us.

How do we do this? Yoga is a unique philosophy in its blending of Samkhya metaphysics with yogic practice. A philosophy of mind and body.

Parvatasana, the mountain pose, sheds insight into our dilemma. Sitting in that position, it takes strength to hold. It takes will power to endure. The quiet mind, internally watching the body can begin to sense where in the body this strength exists. A mountain is untouched by all that comes against it. Wind, rain, hurricanes. It has a tremendous capacity to endure. We must learn to be unaffected, in all situations. Not simply avoiding things that upset us – but learning to be able to remain clam and balanced in everything .A Zen proverb says, “It is easiest to practice Zen on the lonely pagoda, it becomes harder on the mountain path, harder still in the family, and hardest in the mulling crowd.”……

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