Spiritual Dimension of Yoga
Project report
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September 2020
Spiritual Dimension of Yoga
1. Introduction
2. Purpose of Life
3. Secret of Life & Creation
4. Enjoy the Freedom
5. Slowly progress in the path of Enlightenment
6. Reach the Blissfulness with the
help of a Guru
1. Introduction
Spirituality
is becoming a common word with people in current generation. But Most of them
doesn’t know what it really means. Spirituality is not just Going to the
temple, Singing Bajans and chanting mantras in the free time, and in the rest
of the time living a Normal life with Greed, Jealous, Anger, Lust etc..
And
also it is not just going behind the God and not taking care of our own life,
not taking care of our Health and Being Selfishness and not thinking about
other Humans and all other living Beings. Spirituality is Understanding
ourselves as God and all other creations around us. Nothing has been created
here just to live and die. Everything has a unique value and Eternal Energy.
How
Yoga Helps to Travel the path of Spirituality?
The above question is totally wrong because Yoga doesn’t help us to travel in the path of Sprituality, Yoga itself is spirituality. And we will see more about this below.
2. Purpose of Life
Whatever
happening in this universe has its own purpose. Glowing sun, Beautiful Moon,
Vast Ocean, Non stop Tides in the Sea, Barking Dogs, Flying insects, everything
has its purpose in this world.
What
could be the purpose of Humans?
Schooling
? Marriage? Reproduction ? Job or Business? Buying House and Car? Nothing above
these are the purpose of our Life.
These
are the things we Just copied from someone who were not really known What is
the purpose of life is. And We were been and being following someone and we are
being passing on this wrong knowledge to our Children and society to just
blindly follow us. We have no time to think about the purpose of life. But
still we are being a part of this universe and the universe is need us to be
the whole universe. The energy keeps us living is the energy keeping this
universe to be the universe. Our purpose of life is just to know the truth why
we are here and what are our capacities as a Eternal Energy. We are Deep inside
the Drama we created with lots of fake commitments by unnecessary Gatherings
from outside keeps us away from the truth about who we really are. Finding the
truth and walking the path to finding the truth is called Spirituality.
3. Secret of Life & Creation
3.1. Secret of Life and Secret of
Creation is not Easy to find when we are fully tangled in the fake commitments
which been blindly followed for Generations. We have to spend our whole life or
take more Births to find out the secret of Life and creation. There is no much
difference between life and creation. Whatever is outside of us is also there
inside us. It is always better to look inward to find the truth than looking
outward because outward is vast to compare to the self. Once we understand what
is inside us and what are the process happening in our punca koshas, Than we
will also understand what is happening outside of us. As mentioned above
everything is common outside and inside of us. Punca koshas are an example.
Water,
Air, Fire, Space and Earth. Without any one of these There is no human life as
well as the universe. To go inward we have some practices to do which is called
Yoga.
3.2. In yoga there are different
options to travel the path of Spirituality. Like Jnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakti
yoga and karma yoga. In western countries Yoga is being just the physical
exercise. Physical part of the yoga is very important which is called Raja
yoga. But it is not just the physical part that can lead you to the spiritual
life. We should do Astanga Yoga which has 8 different levels of Yoga. Which are
1. Yama
2. Niyama
3. Asana
4. Pranayama
5. Prithyahara
6. Dharana
7. Dhyana
8. Samadhi
We should reach all these 8
stages to reach the Final stage of Spirituality called Moksha.
3.3. Yama & Niyama are the two
Stages to absorb and understand the
Process of happening in and
outside of us. And the third stage Asana is the physical exercise part which
includes the postures to realize the real capabilities of our Body level and
increase it slowly. By doing the asanas it gives us more confidence in physical
level which increases our will power, and then by doing pranayama it keeps our
life energy in high level to make us do Meditation to increase the power of
ones mind which gives us creative power and discrimination power.
Prithyahara
is the process happen in our mind level after it gets ready to concentrate.
Dharana is the level of concentration were several subjects with several
thoughts floating in the mind being reduced to one subject with several thoughts
and then bring it to one subject with a
single thought.
Then
next stage is Dhyana.
Dhyana
is de-focusing, it is effortless Dharana.
Then
the last stage of Astanga yoga is Samadhi. Samadhi is Merger. There is no
different subject and object in this level. Samadhi is super conscious state.
To moving to this stage will all the process mentioned above is Sprituality. It
cannot be achieved in a single day or may not in a whole life too. When we
start how we start and how we progress will determine the time to reach the
Destination of spirituality.
Freedom
is not just doing whatever we want or whatever we can.
Freedom
is just being away of unnecessary gathering of our life which we gathered
physically as Things and relationships, Mentally as in unwanted thoughts and
desires and emotions, and by the health the Deceases we received from the wrong
life style. Unwanted knowledge we gathered from the technology and other
sources.
When
we get away from all these unwanted things we will reach the self freedom. The
self freedom will let us think about the truth and the path to the truth and
will lead us in the path and make us reach the destination the Truth(Moksha).
Progressing
in the path of Enlightenment should happen without any distractions. Yoga is
helpful to make us concentrate on where we have to travel and the right path to
our destination.
Progress
can happen starting from Intellectual level to physical level and then go to
mental level, or starts with Intellectual level and then mind and then to
physical level.
There
will be more than one path to the same destination. Who we travel is not
important but the destination.
Also how fast you travel is also not important unless your concentration is not gets distracted from the travelling.
6.
Reach the Blissfulness with the help of a Guru
We
talked about the destination which is Blissfulness of the
super----_consciousness us. To do anything in life we need a Guru. Once we born
we don’t even know how to talk and how to walk but our parents being a Guru and
teaching us all the things to make our life efficient.
To do
basic things we had a Guru ( our parents or Guardians ) . To know the Path to
our destination we should definitely have a guru.
When
we are ready to travel in the path of Sprituality (Yoga) we will find a Guru.
And it will happen like a magic.
As
There is a Saying in English
When
a Student is ready , The teacher will Appear.
Spirituality
is the purpose of life. Not reaching the Moksha and living the Fake life as one
of the person as a society for the society and by the society will not take
ourselves anywhere than to the Death and the Rebirth.
Merging
the Jeevathma (Individual self) with Paramathma ( universal Self) is Yoga. In
Sanskrit it is called Yuj. The spiritual dimension of Yoga is actually the
Purpose of Yoga.
If
Yoga become a subject in Schools and colleges to make everyone study and
understand about the purpose of life. Then there will be an end to the Drama
happening around the world and it may lead to an another creation happening in
this universe. Whatever happens in the universe we can be a joyful super
consciousness part of the Universal Energy.
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