most people think yoga means physical exercises and postures now it's a prerequisite for making
progress in any field including spirituality that your physical well-being must be looked
after that's perfect but the deeper vision if you like that the real definition of
yoga is quite interesting it says harness nature external means the physical body
hardness nature internal weak this part we forget because the mind is in a turmoil we only find
this out when we close our eyes to try and hold the mind still for a moment it doesn't do that
it is suddenly discovered in a mess so yoga is harnessing in nature external harnessing nature
internal to reveal the divinity that is already within you don't need to conjure it up you don't
need to invent it but is that part of the hindu faith is it inextricably linked with hinduism
yeah it is how you guys define this is one of the most ancient philosophies india produced
you start with the sankey darshan and then it progressed to the yoga darshan yoga darshan
which says really speaking there's something much more to us than meets the myths that meets the eye
we have more than material beings and only through tremendous introspection can you rediscover
essential identity notice the body the mind or the intellect but the spirit that lights all of
us up and relinking ourselves with the spirit is the idea of yoga joining up with our real
nature beginning is true this is this is dignity hinduism style spiritual humanism you are more
than matter mr dawkins you are much more you are the spirit the indie tradition this is hinduism
buddhism jainism and sikhism talk about religion as a belief system that you believe and you die
and things will be sorted out they believe in experiential religion if you guys were real if you
are the spirit if there is something called the spirit or religion you must come face to face with
it you must be fast and encounter so you can't you can't divide yogurt into postural which it seems
a lot of i mean obviously a lot of people who are doing it in the western society are doing it
because that because of spiritual reasons but but some of them are doing it to get better bodies
surely you see this is human nature you see we need to kind of take your body preparatory yeah it
can in fact it is prerequisite right yoga means the spiritual aspect of yoga it requires that
your physical being should be looked after the hindus are claiming this is a very powerful claim
that every prophet every mystic encounter the spiritual experience it was transcendent
no words to describe and yet they had to interpret their own experience so they came
up with different interpretation about their own spiritual transcendent experience once that i see
fathering they have another society burning which others are just enlightened
essentially what the hindus are claiming that all of them knowingly or unknowingly very successfully
in the spiritual aspect of raja yoga and when they try to give expression to these marvelous
you know life-transforming experience it turned into different religions i i feel that i mean
the debate within our society and it's a wonderful debate is that i think we need rather than having
these enclosed walled religions we all need to be more generous sure and say actually what what can
i learn from you you can teach me something that i did not spiritually understand before
and what i what gives me great hope in our society is that we're tentatively moving towards that
the the walls yes that surrounded religions are slowly being dismantled and we're saying please
my brother my sister it is sincere in spirituality in any field any religion will immediately feel
affinity for that person it is natural and they embrace all religions tommy what are people saying
that's right they're agreeing with jay actually they're saying that it's quite complex uh meducho
saying yoga is a legacy treasure from ancient civilizations the problem arises when we try to
translate its complexities there's so much more to it another tweet here from dj th production says
all those things we do like yoga and tai chi are based on fighting practices so is this really
peaceful and spiritual we can find out from the panel in just a moment but phil says yoga puts
you in contact with your soul which in turn is resident in the spirit world thank you you're
shaking your head there jim no i don't think it's no fighting no it's not fair i mean i didn't
mention about the fighting elephants you know but the the origins of the yoga yoga practices
one of the main key features before even practice yoga there are serious prerequisites before you
sit down to meditate one of them as you mentioned earlier is contentment you see
the modern world needs that the other is being stickler for truth it's not easy as we think
because we are very diplomatic and we kind of round up i think there is a model there over
uh kind of this is exactly what i mean by saying we need to be better informed
if we know the history of yoga if we know the history of tai chi and other things you will
understand how these things got modulated so we must we must stop trying to convert each other
i believe in dialogue and what i mean by dialogue very very briefly
he said when you ask somebody to convert it's a serious mistake because it's like
asking a river that has come down one side of the mountain to go back up the mountain and come down
you may not say some word but you can say
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