YOGA is Knowledge from most ancient times with origins in India. Yoga provides knowledge why the person came to this world, how he should live and how to develop spiritually.
The word yoga itself translates as union. It is a soul’s union with God. In the course of time, the knowledge of yoga has spread around the world, altered and gained colours and tones of the countries, nations, cultures and traditions where it stayed.
With the research and studies of this ancient discipline, new trends appeared. For example, raja, sankhja, karma, bhakti, jnana yoga. These and other schools are like different paths, but they all lead you to the single goal – knowledge of yourself and God, and union with Him.
God, who created the human body, set in it everything what exists in the Universe, all God’s Power and Knowledge. So with spiritual growth everybody is given the opportunity to discover this Knowledge.
In order to receive the knowledge of himself and God, the person doesn’t have to give up the secular life and its comforts. People living a secular life are able to reach God as well. Their way to God is by dealing with everyday life and concerns and still remembering God, dedicating your thoughts and deeds to Him. If the person in his routine duties remembers God, there will come a day when God and spirituality occupies a highly significant part of his life.
Why God gave the human two arms, two legs and eyes…How should the human exploit his body?
When God created the human body, he breathed great energy into it. It is the energy which ensures the person’s capability of thinking and acting. This is prana shakti – life energy. The soul has gone a long way in the evolution to obtain a human body and only due to this body, after passing through many development stages, it can reach perfection and unite with God. There is nothing else that has such an opportunity. Birth in a human body on Earth is the essential condition for the soul to grow spiritually and unite with God.
Sometimes the person finds it hard to perceive what the primary goal of his life is. Alongside doing his daily duties, the person should become aware of the goal of his existence on this Earth and find answers to the key questions “who am I?”, “where do I come from?” and “where do I go when my life ends?” Nobody has lived forever and nobody will – whether these were poor or rich people, rulers or commoners. Everybody will inevitably leave his body and go on a mysterious trip to the Otherworld. That is the Great Truth and nobody can defy it. Therefore, as long as the person has this body, he must come to know God – this force and energy which resides in this body.
Yoga has a concept of atma jnana. Atma is the soul, the highest spirit, jnana is knowledge. Atma jnani is the one who came to know himself, “who am I?”, who knows everything about his soul – that ”I” is a part of God who exists everywhere and in everything. When the person realizes that God lives in him as in every single particle in this Universe, that He exists in everything that surrounds the human – this is the state of brahma jnana. Brahma jnani sees God anywhere and in anything.
What does a human want? To be happy. This is why he lives, works and is ready to accomplish much. Seeking this state is the driving power of overall motion. The person searches for happiness and joy high and low. However, things bringing happiness and joy today, become trivial in the course of time, and he starts missing something again. He again pursues a new thing. A new search starts. Each time the state of happiness and joy remains temporary. Desires follow desires without leaving the person alone for one minute, and finally, after realizing them, the person still does not feel fully happy.
What is the cause for all this?
All gained in this life, all that brings us joy and creates a sense of happiness will not stay with us forever. We will not be able to take all this with us to the Otherworld, when the day to leave this body arrives. So, achieving and obtaining these things is not the primary goal of a person’s life.
The person will experience the true happiness and joy when he embraces spirituality in his life, when he feels as a part of God, becomes aware that God always lives in his heart and assists in everything. This is something the person will learn when he realizes “who am I?”. This kind of happiness is eternal and is not subject to external circumstances – it is what the person cannot be deprived of.
Spiritual growth is a true treasure which people can gain in this life. And this treasure will always stay within them: both in this life and after death, when the soul heads for the subtle worlds.
Who/what is God? Do you understand the meaning of this word?
God is the united supreme force existing in the shape of Light, Sound and Energy, everywhere and in everything, in every single particle of the Universe. All phenomena and people are tightly connected in this world. The human is the indispensable part of the Universe and a part of God. By developing, growing and becoming aware of the self and the world, the person comes to understand it. This is why you shouldn’t ever think that you are alone.
When the person chooses to go the yoga way, all this Knowledge will reveal itself to him.
Karma yoga and bhakti yoga are the ways of spiritual growth appropriate for people who lead secular lives. Karma is an act, any job performed by a person. Bhakti is love and devotion to God.
