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Yoga, chitta vritti nirodha.

INDRANIL BASU, XI/XII

Yoga or Yog literally means “Union”. Union of an Organism with God, union of the Individual with

the Universal, Of the Self with the Infinite Spirit. It means to move beyond the material world

towards an experiential reality where one knows the ultimate nature of existence, the way it is

made.

We define ourselves by our body, mind and energy. However, the body is only an accumulation of

food. Our mind is an accumulation of thoughts and emotions. It is the soul among these that is

the ultimate. We are not our body or mind, our soul is our actual identity.

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'YOGA' -The elixir of life.

This has been established by Indian Spiritualists since ancient times in scientific treatises and

teachings. We know that the soul exists in theory but Yoga helps us to understand it practically.

Only through Yoga we can be aware and consciously experience our soul. Therefore, Yoga is

the Science of the Spirit.

Through Yoga, one can bring forth a tremendous experience of life. The better we understand

the working of our body, mind and soul, the more efficiently we can use it. Yoga raises our

consciousness, restores health, brings clarity to the way we see things or situations and

replenishes energy.

Almost everyone in the West and many India believe that Yoga is a physical exercise, breathing

movements or a fancy to achieve ‘inner peace’. In fact, Yog-asanas are but a miniscule aspect

of the entire Yogic system and are called “Hatha Yoga”. It is a huge tragedy that today’s

generation finds Yoga disinteresting or outdated due to lack of awareness of the fact that Yoga

is not a series of ancient Indian postures but a holistic universal science which can never be

outdated. In the Bhagavad Gita, Yoga is described as ‘the art of working, the very art of living

life’. Yoga can be performed through every action: in performing one’s duties, in studying, in

making decisions and in many other ways. Thus, Yoga is the performance of one’s actions with

excellence.