RELEVANCE OF YOGA

 WHY YOGA IS RELEVANT IN EVERY ONE'S LIFE

In today’s world, in the 21^st century, as we have entered, a spiritual heritage is being reclaimed of which yoga is very much a part. While yoga’s main importance remains at the highest goal of the spiritual path yoga practices give tangible and direct benefits to the practitioners according to their spiritual goal.

Since every human being is in a physical body, it is of primary importance to keep your physical body fit, and, therefore, physical therapy is one of yoga’s most important achievements. Why it is so powerful? It is powerful because it works on the holistic principles of harmony and unification. It can be inferred as an alternative form of therapy for diseases like asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, digestive disorders, and other ailments of a chronic and constitutional nature where modern science has not. Many Researchers propounded that Yoga acts as an alternative therapy for diseases like Cancer and many other incurable diseases. Yogic therapy is successful because of the balance created in the nervous and other systems of the body directly which influences all the other systems and organs of the body.

For most of people, throughout the world, yoga is used as a tool for maintaining health and well-being in this stressful society.  Most of the Yoga Gurus throughout the world are engaged in teaching Asanas to remove physical discomfort. Very few Yoga Gurus are available throughout the world who teach their disciple Spiritual Yoga, namely Daya Mata (a disciple of Yogananda), Hariharananda (a disciple of Yukteswar Giri), Shyamacharan Lahiri (a disciple of Kriya Babaji), Dr. Ashoke Chatterjee ( Nephew of Great Yogi Shyamacharan Lahiri) and so on.  Nowadays, it is very difficult to find a proper Guru who will teach Yoga for salvation. In an age of Mobile Phones, beepers, and twenty-four-hour shopping, yoga practices make great personal and business sense).

In the Geeta, Lord Krishna said to his disciple Arjuna “ Chanchalam hi manaha krishna pramathi balavad dridham,

Tasyaham nighraham manye vayor-iva su-duskaram”

The meaning of the above sloka is “the mind is very restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate. Arjuna said, I think it is very to control mind for me”. So, we have to first control our minds. Therefore, yoga provides a means for people to find their own way of connecting with their own selves.

Hence, Yoga is far from simply being physical exercise, it is a method to establish a new way of life that embraces both inner and outer realities. However, this method is an experience that cannot be understood intellectually and will only become living knowledge through regular practice and experience to a proper Guru who has attained salvation and who can rectify your fault.