respected elders dear friends I have been asked to give a talk on Yoga for modern man what our
understanding I have developed over the years on yoga it leads me to one thing that Yoga is
applicable at all times to everyone young and old men and women educated and not so
educated but it applies the most to the modern man today never before in the history it is so
wanted so needed and so vital to our inner existence when you see a car moving or a
bullock cart moving you can imagine how the wheels are rotating it's easier to
watch the woman on a block art the entire will spins and you can see the moment but
as you move from the most peripheral toward the center of that axis the axle it looks as
if it's not going at all it will so steady and moving in the whole wheel moves how the
innermost remains steady around which the outermost rotates around such is our life
as well the depth the stillness within is more profound in a person who is extremely creative
for creativity you need at our stillness though this stillness ultimately results in the form of
actions and without this action the inner stillness is of no consequence it is aid
in our tradition the great literature from our ancient past especially Gita when Lord Krishna
talks about yogaha karmasu kaushalam it's a beautiful principle their lives even today
and how while remaining connected with our higher consciousness with our higher being at our source
this connectedness creates so much of creativity it inspires us in that state of yoga that we are
able to skillfully execute water was earlier intended in our mind now becomes actuality how
yoga is applicable today to me practicing half a dozen yoga asanas and breathing exercises it's not
going to create a state of yoga in me of course and the body is needed and to maintain health
Yogi's through the practical experience they say recommended that ok if you can might as well
do this so that your hand will remain steady you'll be healthy enough to practice so many
things in life including arriving at a state of yoga what is it that can drive us to that
state of yoga leaders to that state of yoga our inner life should be such of such an order that
I remain always looking within for inspiration rather than looking outside outside things can
motivate me a little bit the true creativity comes when it is truly inspired from within
oneself even when your best friend recommends you something I think you'll want to verify it with
your heart and say yes I too agree with so this agreement is needed from the heart clear of the
heart wiser the heart intuitive the heart look you better signals now the whole yoga practice
of meditation is to arrive at this state of utter stillness within meditation is to help us come to
this state of inner stillness and execute through this inner stillness what are we have to do in
daily life you may be a businessman you may be working you may be a student or maybe a retired
person in every facets of life yoga helps the state of union with ultimate helps and actually
that is our primary goal to evaluate that I must have this unity union with the ultimate
meditation makes it possible by renouncing the world we are contradicting yourself that yogaha
karmasu kaushalam through yoga all your actions become skillful but if you aspire to renounce
the action announced activities of this world then you are contradicting the very thing for
which you have started to in the Yoga Yoga is to arrive at the perfect action as much
as possible perfect state of being perfect state of relationships and all this perfection can be
arrived at if we only try to balance our inner life that's the life our spiritual explanations
material is permissions rather it will be futile to differentiate our spiritual life of material
life even in material life of business world in the student life retired life we should allow the
spiritual life to percolate and make even this material life part and parcel one integrated
existence when total existence which is not standing at crossroad they are not opposing
each other they become one and in fact in the material life only we are able to exercise our
spiritual wealth our spiritual talents or spiritual creativity imagine if the science
was amalgamated integrated with spirituality it will be a wonderful world isn't it yogic practice
should be able to and hence everything that we do the word yoga from which we derived the word
your gear and I am here in Hindi Sanskrit Yoga means which is proper when you are united with
your higher self with your conscience actions done in a rightful conscience that's a yogya or
proper action I hope here it is opposite when you are separated from your conscience near separated
from your higher source when you are separated from your higher consciousness tasks performed
by denying your conscience to prevail our improper are you here so Yoga is a fire fetching word fire
fetching application it has you know day to day life and everything that we do even cooking a meal
are taking a meal sharing a meal with people giving a gift to someone or receiving a kick
when I am united and appreciated with all my conscience it enables everything that I do
and who is to tell you that what you did or what you're thinking its proper or improper your gear
or a yogya only your heart until you've actually even if someone tells you you're wrong or you're
right it will be wonderful if your heart agrees with it or disagrees with it then it is your very
own action or inaction you'll be able to take the credit for all that you do and be grateful to God
in such a state of union with higher consciousness or with the source of it the Lord or with ultimate
things happen naturally things happen as if it should happen only in that way there is no other
way though there are many other things you could have been doing but it will feel just right when
you are in state of Union so I encourage you my dear friends that Yoga has to be understood
properly and I wish you all to understand the true meaning of yoga that it is all about my union with
ultimate it is all about my conscience it is all about my super consciousness to prevail in
my working consciousness so that anything and everything that I do in life becomes skillful
yogaha karmasu kaushalam and i reiterate this again and again that asanas and breathing exercise
called pranayamas it's just a part of it out of 36 or 37 steps which are prescribed through solid
and chatter Sara asanas and primers are merely two steps out of those 36 37 or maybe 40 steps
ultimate culmination of all the yoga practices is to arrive at a state of balance within this
inner stillness inner calmness inner balance must find its way in our external workmanship
it must become dynamic so yogi is actually a dynamic person he is not to be taken as
an inactive person doing nothing and it does not aspire for those days and say
okay I am NOT going to do anything I'm going to renunciate and do nothing no that will be
counterproductive and against the clarion call of Gita yogaha karmasu kaushalam may
it be so for all of us if you would like to learn meditation in a very scientific way I
would appreciate if you connect to as well let us meditate upon your Android phone or
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