Spirituality
Religion and Yoga A Tool for Realization
by Meena Iyer
Religion has always been a
source of conflict and tension around the world. In fact being religious
should be a source of inspiration and wellness. Once we get identified
by religion, caste and creed we suffer. What is religion and what is the
science behind religion? Religion is something we follow religiously in
our life. The science behind religion is how we do our karma to our body
after death. If one is in awareness he will understand the principles of
the karmic ritual to our deceased body. Each religion follows their
karmic ritual to the dead ones and it has it own manifestation.
There were few great spiritual leaders and their teachings have
undergone various interpretations by learned folks and it transcribed
into the sacred texts like the Bible, Koran, and Gita etc. All religions
teach the same moral principles and virtues. There has to be a
comparison of religion to be conducted at every school and institution
and this will result in understanding each religion and we can share the
good things that the spiritual leaders have taught and ignore the
teachings that do not make sense.
In fact India and neighboring China or Tibet have been blessed by the
powers of Himalayas and there have been great spiritual sages, siddhas,
saints and spiritual leader and they have initiated Yoga and looked
deeply to inner nature of human body and beyond and the Yogic Vedic
teachings transcribed in to religion Hinduism and Buddhism. Realized
Yogis like Patanjali, Buddha, Dalai Lama, Sankaracharya, Krishna, and
Osho were all realized only in India due to the powers of Himalayas.
Even Jesus they say whether it is the fact or not, but the truth is that
he might have been initiated into Yoga and received his teaching in
Himalayas India in his unknown 17 years when he was not in Jerusalem.
So we Indians are blessed and get a feeling that Hindu religion has all
tolerance and embraces all religion. In fact if you go to roots, if we
follow Yoga in our life every individual in this planet will feel the
oneness and experience themselves as part of everybody. Currently there
are great spiritual leaders, realized masters in India like Sadhguru
Jaggi Vasudev who founded the Isha Yoga center in Coimbatore and Ravi
Shankar of Art of living who are initiating people around the world in
to yoga and folks are experiencing the inner peace or freedom. There are
other Sufis leaders like the Khans who are really transforming folks
around the world into yoga and finding inner peace and wellbeing and all
these Sufis leaders have learnt the Vedas, Yoga from institutes
established in India.
Science has proved that the entire existence is one energy manifested in
different forms. Human beings all have the same form of energy but in
different intensity. Modern science has also concluded that Matter and
Energy are one and the same and the entire universe is one explosion of
sound energy. Modern Science has proven that if we do not have tongue
the only letters we can pronounce are AUM. The same sound AUM exists in
outer space.
Out of emptiness in space you see stars and galaxy forming and finally
collapsing to nothingness or emptiness. Shiva in his unmanifested form
or Rupa is emptiness, nothingness or Shoonya and the
unmanifested energy state is termed to be Purusha or Masculine. Shiva in
its manifested state is Prakriti (Creation) or nature and the
manifested energy state is termed as Shakthi or Feminine. When
the unmanifest manifests itself in to the creation there is always a
duality of energies in the creation. At an instance of time or Brahma,
life is created and due to the duality in nature there is a leela
and we experience life. Life is maintained by Vishnu which is a
manifestation of life energies in to higher forms. We evolved from
single cellular organism in to multi cellular organism and evolved as a
Human being. The creator is within us and through Yoga which literally
means union; we can be the Creator and experience the Creation as ours
or in other words we can realize God or the divinity in us.
Yoga is an ancient science of India and it literally means Union. The
four main types of yoga are Karma Yoga (Selfless Action) Bhakthi
(Devotion) Yoga, Gnana (Intelligence) Yoga, Kriya (Subtle
energy) Yoga. We as a human being are made up of four components – Body,
Mind, Emotions and Energy. Through Yoga we can bring in a union of our
Body, Mind, Emotions and energy by controlling or channeling the subtle
energies or prana. We are subjected to both Animal and Divine
nature. Through Yoga we can align all the four components Body, Mind,
Emotions and Energy with the Divine. God is our inner self and once we
bring in our awareness or consciousness to higher dimensions, we
experience god or blissfulness.
So why are we fighting about religion or divided by religion, why not a
peaceful world with one consciousness? World can be peaceful only if one
can find inner peace and only through Yoga one can attain the inner
peace. It is of great importance to find a Guru who can initiate you in
Yoga. Yoga is not just twisting your hands and legs. Meet a realized
master or a Guru and he will initiate you into Yoga. So being a Hindu,
Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian, if we do not understand the yogic
science of living then it is a shame and false sense of identification.
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