Yoga and Total Health Magazine - January 2006 Issue

Editorial by Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra

If none responds to your call, you carry on alone. None may understand your perception of fife, or none your overview of the world around. Do not wait to correct others or bring sense into them. Do not tarry and wait and waste your time.

Maintaining a balanced mind and walking the path of duty is the most important thing here. You will not go wrong nor hurt others thus. Sitting idle and just thinking does not help. Life is a dynamic process, you have your allocated rote to play, fixed job to do. You should fit into that larger plan and not disturb the arrangement of Nature or God.

There are those who have fought with their family, society, country to better them and improve them against their will and make for them into an ideal society. But many like them have come and gone and the world continues the way it was always. Had they carried out their allocated jobs they would have contributed something to their organization. If they had carried out their duties that were planned earlier they would have led the society a little further. Their desire to change the whole world to bring in a new social order boomrangs. They get too involved with others and often miss out their own direction in life. Ekalo jane. Ekalo jane is a well known quote from poet Tagore here.

Yoga and Total Health Magazine - January 2006 Issue

An enthusiastic young man would get involved in helping the weak and innocent. He would get out of his house in the morning to attend to his printing press. But on the way he would notice a crowd near a shop. A child was crying that the shopkeeper had cheated him. The enthusiastic young man would take up the side of the boy and a full fledged battle would ensue thereafter till by afternoon they were at the Police Station. It was late evening that he reached his printing press, and unfortunately this was not a one day affair. Practically all his days were lost thus in taking up public grievances. He died a pauper!

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra – by Hansaji
There are infinite possibilities in a human being and as a result many unusual things have been reported. One may even though present remain unseen by others .Simple logic is that the object to be seen should be available when you want it to see it. If the object can clearly remain unseeable then apparently the object disappears.

There can be a very clever spy who can be right in the situation when nobody can see him. Various procedures can be used. He might change his external appearance and look like another person. He can so manage that the attention goes somewhere else and one do not see him even though he is there. Basically what the sutra says is the object that is to be seen should allow itself to be seen. If the individual is clever and hides himself through Yogic techniques he controls the body’s capacity to be seen .He may not be seen. One can expose oneself too much or expose oneself less. There are people who want to make themselves seen and some who so cleverly carry about themselves that they are not seen. A film actor is of the first kind and a unassuming saint is the other kind.

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Excerpts from some of the articles in the current issue:

A Happy Day! - by Rashid Jiwani
Today, we live very fast lives, specially, in a mega city like Mumbai. Take a typical day in the life of a city dweller. I keep my alarm at 6 o'clock, so that I can finish all my activities before I leave for work at 9. But, when the alarm rings, I am feeling so cosy under my blanket, that I shut the alarm and tell myself, "Just a few minutes, okay?” But the few minutes become hours and I finally manage to get up at 8. When the door bell rings. I attend to the milkman. Then, another bell, and I attend to the newspaper delivery boy, and when the third bell rings, I run towards the door as though there is an earthquake. I open the door, only to find my "bai", waiting patiently with a silly smile, as though telling me, "Why did you run? I am not running away". She quietly does her work while I fret and fume.….

Is Excessive Consumerism Bringing Peace to Us and Others? - by John Kimbrough
…. It was always seen that many of things that we consume, strive to consume and involve ourselves with were deliberating or potentiality harmful to our mental and physical health. This included things such as drinking, drugs, habitual interest in computers and games, gambling, watching television excessively and shopping for and buying things that were not needed or were purchased as a kind of status symbol.

Yoga has been teaching people since its beginnings that excessive, obsessive and addictive desires to material goods and pleasures can be one of the greatest threats to personal health and happiness and a tendency that leads to conflicts within oneself and with others. The teachings of Yoga directly address these tendencies in us as humans and teach us how we should aim to live. Instead of wanting to consume, we can be more mindful about and cultivate states of consciousness and conduct built on non- greed and contentment.….

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