'sat nyasa' is the pathway to brahmn, 'sat'. This is the most difficult path since 'sat' is fire and to walk on fire is next to impossibility. Incidentally, yoga shastra insists on yama and niyama where 'sat' is an essential condition without which yoga will not be fruitful. Not to tell lie even for fun is the rule. Now, the truth is something that eludes us even if we try to follow it. Then how to attain to brahmn, the 'sat'? Bhagavad-Git shows the way. Bhagavan Shree Krishna says, He will deiver the sinful one if he/she just surrenders to Him". maam upetya tu kounteya sarva papebhyo mokshayishaymi ma shucha | He assures liberation to the sinner, too!
What is important here is to take to yoga (yuj), to attain oneness. Oneness with the Self is yoga. Oneness is reaching totality, wholeness. Controlling the mind and the senses and synchronization with the body and aligning with the soul is yoga. Normally the soul, Atma, remains silent, a witness to the happenings to the jiva. The jiva does not know about the Atman and thereby will not look to it for guidance; on the other hand it looks to the fickle mind that uses the senses to aggrandize the ego and fulfill its desires. Buddhi will not take the light of prajnya as a result of which it drives the jiva to suffer misery. When the jiva looks to the Atma, who know all, for guidance, automatically the buddhi gets the light of prajnya (pure consciousness) and turns the mind towards the right path, sat nyasa.
Pure Consciousness is 'sat'. This 'sat' is shuddha vidhya. Jiva is the product of ashuddha vidya, impure or knowledge with desire. phenomenal existence or one of body, gross matter. It is only this desire is shed off and all the pollutants and blemishes, scars, gunas, doshas are removed the ashuddha become shuddha. The tainted jivatman becomes a pure soul and attains to mukti with the help of yoga. Hence, atindriya dhyana, Transcendental Meditation paves the way for for purification.
Thus, the jiva is saved from its predicaments of sufferings. Hence, the Lord says, tasmaad yogirbhavaarjunaa |, meaning, "Therefore turn to yoga". Yoga will help bring the jiva to take the right path, sat nyasa- right thinking and right action.
Pure Consciousness is 'sat'. This 'sat' is shuddha vidhya. Jiva is the product of ashuddha vidya, impure or knowledge with desire. phenomenal existence or one of body, gross matter. It is only this desire is shed off and all the pollutants and blemishes, scars, gunas, doshas are removed the ashuddha become shuddha. The tainted jivatman becomes a pure soul and attains to mukti with the help of yoga. Hence, atindriya dhyana, Transcendental Meditation paves the way for for purification.
Thus, the jiva is saved from its predicaments of sufferings. Hence, the Lord says, tasmaad yogirbhavaarjunaa |, meaning, "Therefore turn to yoga". Yoga will help bring the jiva to take the right path, sat nyasa- right thinking and right action.
Yoga is not just asana and pranayama to maintain good health. It is to practice right living. Right living is not just a right to live as one wants. It is to live a homogeneous, harmonious, balanced life. Life should be a melodious song; it should be an orchestra and a joyful musical fair.
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