Today many people come to learn yoga mainly for one of the following reasons:
1. To reduce tension that they had from family worries or business commitments or such mundane activities.
2. To cure some long-lasting diseases, diabetes, asthma and so on.
3. To improve the concentration of the students for securing good marks and to improve their character.
Many people get satisfied with learning aasanas and think that they learnt yoga. But the ultimate aim of yoga is to attain self-realization, that is, to realize who I am. Consciousness being standstill, that is, thoughtless mind is samati, perfection, salvation, nirvana, mukti, moksha and realization of self. If you gradually reduce number of thoughts in your mind and at one stage reach thoughtless mind, then you become one with braman and realise all the secrets of nature, including who you are. Healthy mind, healthy body, good concentration, profound thinking, long life and peaceful mind are the byproducts of yoga, not the aim. A sick person cannot be a yogi. That is why aasanas were taught to strengthen a yogi physically and mentally on his spiritual journey.
1. To reduce tension that they had from family worries or business commitments or such mundane activities.
2. To cure some long-lasting diseases, diabetes, asthma and so on.
3. To improve the concentration of the students for securing good marks and to improve their character.
Many people get satisfied with learning aasanas and think that they learnt yoga. But the ultimate aim of yoga is to attain self-realization, that is, to realize who I am. Consciousness being standstill, that is, thoughtless mind is samati, perfection, salvation, nirvana, mukti, moksha and realization of self. If you gradually reduce number of thoughts in your mind and at one stage reach thoughtless mind, then you become one with braman and realise all the secrets of nature, including who you are. Healthy mind, healthy body, good concentration, profound thinking, long life and peaceful mind are the byproducts of yoga, not the aim. A sick person cannot be a yogi. That is why aasanas were taught to strengthen a yogi physically and mentally on his spiritual journey.
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