Yoga Philosophy is one of the six systems
of Hindu Philosophy which exist in India. Unlike
so many other
philosophies of the world, it is a philosophy that is wholly practical. Yoga is
an exact
science based on
certain immutable Laws of Nature. It is well known to people of all countries
of
the world
interested in the study of Eastern civilisation and culture, and is held in awe
and reverence
as it contains in
it the master-key to unlock the realms of Peace, Bliss, Mystery and Miracle.
Even
the philosophers
of the West found solace and peace in this Divine Science. Jesus Christ himself
was a Yogi of a
superior order, a Raja-Yogi indeed. The founder of the Yoga Philosophy was
Patanjali
Maharshi, who was not only a Philosopher and a Yogi, but a Physician as well.
He is said
to have lived
about three hundred years before Jesus Christ.
Patanjali defines
Yoga as the suspension of all the functions of the mind. As such, any book
on Yoga, which
does not deal with these three aspects of the subject, viz., mind, its
functions and
the method of
suspending them, can he safely laid aside as unreliable and incomplete.
The word Yoga
comes from the Sanskrit root “Yuj” which means “to join.” Yoga is a
science that teaches
us the method of joining the individual soul and the Supreme Soul. It is the
merging of the
individual will with the Cosmic or Universal Will. Yoga is that inhibition of
the
functions of the
mind which leads to the absolute abidance of the soul in its own real nature of
Divine Glory and
Divine Splendour. It is the process by which the identity of the individual
soul
and the Oversoul
is established by the Yogi. In other words, the human soul is brought into
conscious
communion with God. Yoga is the Science of sciences that disentangles the
individual
soul from the
phenomenal world of sense-objects and links with the Absolute, whose inherent
attributes are
Infinite Bliss, Supreme Peace, Infinite Knowledge and unbroken Joy.
Yoga is that state
of Absolute Peace wherein there is neither imagination nor thought. Yoga
is control of mind
and its modifications. Yoga teaches us how to control the modifications of the
mind and attain
liberation. It teaches us how to transmute the unregenerate nature and attain the
state of Divinity.
It is the complete suppression of the tendency of the mind to transform itself
into
objects, thoughts,
etc. Yoga kills all sorts of pain, misery and tribulation. It gives you freedom
from
the round of
births and deaths, with its concomitant evils of disease, old age, etc., and
bestows upon
you all the Divine
Powers and final liberation through super-intutional knowledge.
The word Yoga is
also applicable in its secondary sense to the factors of Yoga, viz.,
self-training,
study, the different actions and practices that go to make up Yoga as they are
conducive to the
fulfilment of Yoga and as such indirectly lead to emancipation. Union with God
is
the goal of human
life and that ought to become the touchstone of all human endeavours. That is
the
be-all and end-all
of existence.
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