Yogasth Kuru KArmani

                                                

Coordination of mind and body is necessary for the desired success in life for every individual. It’s a well established fact that every action has a reaction. Each and every particle in this universe is affected by each other; every big or small action leaves an effect in the universe. Bhagavad Geeta describes the doctrine of performing action without bothering about the consequences. Then the question arises how is it possible to act if you don’t have an aim to achieve something. Further to this, is it possible even to think of an action if there is no goal to achieve? Actually there is a very systematic process of having any thing accomplished in our life. In this system there is a Rishi, there is a Devata and there is Chhandas. The whole system is comprises of Rishi-Devata-Chhandas where Rishi is the one who perform action, Devata is the process of doing and Chhandas is the object, the out come of the action. It is also described in the terms of Knower, the process of knowing and known where known is the object of process of knowing and knower is the performer of action and it knows the process as well as the known i.e. the object. The process doesn’t complete in the absence of any one of it. So what is the truth behind the doctrine of acting without bothering about the outcome? Actually it is all about the matter of bothering, confusion and anxiety etc which emerges as the result of lack of orderliness in the consciousness and the lack of coordination between the mind and body. When we talk about the action we talk about the physical action that is performed by the body but is it the whole truth? Absolutely not, there is a thought behind every action so we need to go to the source of the thought. Actually thought is the product of energy and impulse; when an impulse combines with the energy it give rise to a thought and a thought will be as much powerful as much energy combined with the impulse. So if a thought is powerful the action will be profound and result will be as per the desire and there will be no scope for worry, anxiety and confusion etc. So what we need is to bring orderliness in the consciousness and establish a perfect coordination between mind and body.       

    

                                Yogastha kuru karmani sangang tyaktva Dhananjaya 

Sidhyasidhyoh samo bhutva samatvang yoga uchyatein
2/48 Bhagwad Gita

Arjun! Establish yourself in yoga, and perform the action what you must do;

 Get detached, be indifferent to failure and success, and this stability is yoga.

Lord Krishna says to Arjun “Yogastha Kuru Karmani” means establish yourself in Yoga and perform action as per your Dharma (Yogastha: = establisf in yoga, Kuru = perform, karmaani = duties or action).

Focused on action means focused on the present. Establishing in Yoga means establishing in present thus you cannot be in the past or in the future, and the past regrets and future anxieties cannot make you suffer. Once you are settled down in the present moment, all your decisions will be based on pure consciousness.

Lord Krishna describes “do your best and leave the rest”. One should be focused on actions while being indifferent to its results.  He compared this to the lotus leaves where a drop of water gives the impression of a pearl but once the drop falls off, the leaf is completely dry as if nothing was there.

The so called de-attached attachment is the philosophy, and the mantra to do it is “Yogastha Kuru Karmani”. Yoga is defined as the union of mind and body, means the perfect coordination between mind and body. Practice of Yogasana is like massaging every cell in our body and making it free from all possible impurity and practicing of meditation is like bringing up the absolute orderliness in the mind and taking it to the state of pure consciousness. Once this state of being Yogastha is attained by you “Brahma Bhavati Sarathi” (Brahma becomes your Charioteer) and therefore nothing remain unachievable. So instead of bothering about the out come it is better to establish yourself in Yoga.

Sunil Sinha

The Being: The Being

The Being: The Being: Our life starts with breathing and thinking. The being manifests itself first in the form of Prana and mind. Thinking is the basic element ...

The Being

Our life starts with breathing and thinking. The being manifests itself first in the form of Prana and mind. Thinking is the basic element of all kind of activities. Though we all understand that we must think first before doing anything but we rarely try to understand that what is our thinking depends upon. To think at least one has to be, without being there would be no thinking and no doing. So it is found that being is the basis of all activities, behavior and the different ways and forms of living. So by taking care of being all areas of life can be glorified.

Being is the ultimate realty of all that exist and it is absolute in nature. The glory of being can be experienced directly and recognized as ultimate realty. It is imperishable and eternal; water cannot wet it nor can fire burn it. Wind cannot dry it weapons cannot slay it. It is in front, it is behind, it is above and below. It is to the right and the left. It is all- pervading omnipresent, divine being.

Vedic philosophy describes the relative and absolute as two aspects of the one realty. Life is nothing but being in all its phases of absolute and relative existence. Oneness of being is nothing but the diversity of life, imperishable being is the ever-changing, perishable universe. The words abstract and concrete are relative and neither expresses the nature of being in its true sense. But for the sake of understanding if we have to use a word to define its nature we can say it is abstract and not concrete however the experience of it is far more concrete than any thing in relative life.

The knowledge of being has been shrouded in mysticism because of its abstract nature, as the result the common man has been deprived of the great advantages of experiencing being. The Bhagavad Geeta describes very clearly the path of enlightenment, meditation and claims a little practice can relieve a man of great fears and there will be no obstacle to have a direct experience of it. This practical message of the direct experience of being as the ultimate realty glorifies all aspects of life.

Our experience in the field of perception shows that we experience gross and subtle things. We use our eyes to see, our ears to hear and so on but there is limit to what the eyes can see, the ears hear and the tongue taste. This marks the limit of the experience of grass creation. This is the case with all the senses of perception. They are only able to experience grass objects.

The subtle field is beyond our ordinary range of experience. There exist the subtle strata of creation with which we are not familiar because our ordinary capacity for experience is limited to the grass.

Since being is by nature transcendental, it does not belong to the range of any of the senses of perception. Only when the sensory perception has come to an end can the transcendental field of being be reached. In the practice of meditation a suitable thought is selected and the technique for experiencing it in its initial stages of development enables the conscious mind to arrive systematically at the source of thought, the field of being. The transcendental state of being lies beyond the all seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting, beyond all thinking and beyond all feeling. This state of the unmanifested, absolute, pure consciousness of being is the ultimate state of life which can be easily experienced through the systematic process of meditation.  

         

Presented by

Sunil Sinha                                                                                                                                     

(Honored in USA, Europe, Australia, New Zee land

and Japan as an associate of Maharishi Organization.)