I have come across a common question from many people that how they could lead Yogic life in today's Choatic daily routine... The question which has been put to me is a practical difficulty for many more.
Before giving the answer to this question let me say something about what the yogic life is ?
Yogic life doesn't mean that you have to leave your daily work or you have to restrain yourself from your daily life routines but it means you have to learn how to Remain Calm and posed in all situations... Which is not that easy..
Yoga teaches us how to calm our various energies and how to channelize them.
Most of the people will ask - what do you mean by Channelize.
Channelize means when you start working on your energies/Prana/Vital force then you have also started Channelizing them i.e. to change the direction of that vital force/energy from the outer world to inner world. Which at present has become more Chaotic than the outer world due to the effects of our deeds on our mind and soul.
Let me explain this.. Whenever you closed your eyes.. you start seeing another world of thoughts surrounding you and making you uncomfortable. And to avoid that thought process, you again start focussing on the outer world which again makes you more disturb and in fact, it weakens your natural ability/instint to go inward easily.
For this reason only, the Gurus/Saints/Yogies have invented various Yogic Techniques to make your mind calm and posed by doing simple practices so that your Chitta (mind) could be posed/fixed for some time on the single point.
The meditative techniques or methods or ways may be different for different persons but the aim is the same i.e. to get in touch with yourself by cutting the mind from the outer world.
As I have many times suggested to many persons, that if you don't know anything about yoga even then you can try to sit in simple asana (sitting simply on the bed) with eyes closed and straight spine and doing nothing. Because doing nothing is also a kind of yoga which later or sooner will lead to focused mind. The habit of mind is to go outward and not inward. Due to which reason Maharishi Patanjali said that Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodha .. stopping modifications of mind is Yoga.
So in today's world, where there are numerous and never-ending aspirations, desires, situations etc. then how these yogic states could be attained. Now the answer lies in the question.
All such aspirations, desires, situations etc. are the outcome of our deeds done in past or even in past births and it has not been arisen in a day or month or in a year. And such aspirations, desires, have been further strengthened by us due to our day to day lifestyles and old habits.
But if we make a determination to change the same by adopting the correct way of life and by devoting some time in meditation to learn how to make our mind calm and posed then definitely in some time, you will find that your life is not that Chaotic as it was earlier and you will find your life in more harmony with your soul and nature.
I can suggest a very simple method to do this. We call it Naam Jap or Surat Shabd Yoga. Naam Jap is the simplest and easy to do meditative technique for those persons who do not have the time to learn complex meditative techniques.
My suggestion is that Naam/Shabd needs to be taken from the Sadguru/True master, who has practiced this yoga. Though you can start on your own also by taking any name of God (short one) and start focusing on that seed word. It may be Ram, Shreem, Kreem, Allah, Humm etc.
At the time of Chanting such seed words, you can also try to focus on your nose tip or on Kutastha which is a point where the nose and two eyes meet. But my advice is to not do such Yogic Kriyas on your own and try the same in the guidance of an expert teacher. Please take my words as a caution. But the chanting name of God with eyes closed can make you to achieve calm and posed mind atleast. Although the aim of Yoga is much higher. But such a simple thing will change your life and will make your mind more focussed.
This topic does not end here.... I will keep writing on this...
My next post will be on keval kumbhak... What the Keval Kumbhak is and how it could be achieved.
Before giving the answer to this question let me say something about what the yogic life is ?
Yogic life doesn't mean that you have to leave your daily work or you have to restrain yourself from your daily life routines but it means you have to learn how to Remain Calm and posed in all situations... Which is not that easy..
Yoga teaches us how to calm our various energies and how to channelize them.
Most of the people will ask - what do you mean by Channelize.
Channelize means when you start working on your energies/Prana/Vital force then you have also started Channelizing them i.e. to change the direction of that vital force/energy from the outer world to inner world. Which at present has become more Chaotic than the outer world due to the effects of our deeds on our mind and soul.
Let me explain this.. Whenever you closed your eyes.. you start seeing another world of thoughts surrounding you and making you uncomfortable. And to avoid that thought process, you again start focussing on the outer world which again makes you more disturb and in fact, it weakens your natural ability/instint to go inward easily.
For this reason only, the Gurus/Saints/Yogies have invented various Yogic Techniques to make your mind calm and posed by doing simple practices so that your Chitta (mind) could be posed/fixed for some time on the single point.
The meditative techniques or methods or ways may be different for different persons but the aim is the same i.e. to get in touch with yourself by cutting the mind from the outer world.
As I have many times suggested to many persons, that if you don't know anything about yoga even then you can try to sit in simple asana (sitting simply on the bed) with eyes closed and straight spine and doing nothing. Because doing nothing is also a kind of yoga which later or sooner will lead to focused mind. The habit of mind is to go outward and not inward. Due to which reason Maharishi Patanjali said that Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodha .. stopping modifications of mind is Yoga.
So in today's world, where there are numerous and never-ending aspirations, desires, situations etc. then how these yogic states could be attained. Now the answer lies in the question.
All such aspirations, desires, situations etc. are the outcome of our deeds done in past or even in past births and it has not been arisen in a day or month or in a year. And such aspirations, desires, have been further strengthened by us due to our day to day lifestyles and old habits.
But if we make a determination to change the same by adopting the correct way of life and by devoting some time in meditation to learn how to make our mind calm and posed then definitely in some time, you will find that your life is not that Chaotic as it was earlier and you will find your life in more harmony with your soul and nature.
I can suggest a very simple method to do this. We call it Naam Jap or Surat Shabd Yoga. Naam Jap is the simplest and easy to do meditative technique for those persons who do not have the time to learn complex meditative techniques.
My suggestion is that Naam/Shabd needs to be taken from the Sadguru/True master, who has practiced this yoga. Though you can start on your own also by taking any name of God (short one) and start focusing on that seed word. It may be Ram, Shreem, Kreem, Allah, Humm etc.
At the time of Chanting such seed words, you can also try to focus on your nose tip or on Kutastha which is a point where the nose and two eyes meet. But my advice is to not do such Yogic Kriyas on your own and try the same in the guidance of an expert teacher. Please take my words as a caution. But the chanting name of God with eyes closed can make you to achieve calm and posed mind atleast. Although the aim of Yoga is much higher. But such a simple thing will change your life and will make your mind more focussed.
This topic does not end here.... I will keep writing on this...
My next post will be on keval kumbhak... What the Keval Kumbhak is and how it could be achieved.
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