Everything Is Yoga
Worshipful homage to that
supreme, eternal, universal Being, Lord Krishna, who revealed Himself in and
through the Gita wisdom teachings that He imparted for all mankind, for all
times, through His beloved devotee and disciple, Arjuna. He not only revealed
His divine nature through His Bhagavad Gita teachings, He also revealed how man
can realize Him fully, can experience Him, and, ultimately, how man can merge
himself in Him to become one with Him. All this He taught within the compass of
700 brief verses contained in 18 chapters.
Main teaching
Attain through Yoga the
supreme human experience of our essential non-differentiation from Him; the
experience that liberates us forever from all sorrow, all confusion and
delusion; the experience that liberates us once and for all from a return to
successive birth, death and rebirth in this mortal world.
The four classical yogas are—channelizing our action potential
through karma yoga for God-realization, channelizing our
sentiment and emotion potential for realizing God through bhakti yoga,
channelizing our mind’s power of concentration for attaining God-realization
through raja yoga, through meditation, and channelizing our
intellectual potential of analysis, logic, discrimination and reasoning to
attain illumination through jnana yoga. Here in the Gita we have
18 yogas. Everything is yoga. He covers the whole of human life
in His teaching.
Everything is yoga
The central teaching is that,
in fact, all life is yoga. Life is to be lived as the great sadhana,
the great yoga. All actions constitute yoga. Everything that you
think is yoga. Everything that you speak is yoga. Everything that
you do is yoga. Life is the supreme yoga, every part of it.
Each and every one of our
actions from morning till evening should have a Godward thrust; they are to be
engaged in for attaining illumination. Everything in our life is and ought to
be enlightenment oriented. Breathing, sitting, standing, running, resting,
working, lying, waking, dreaming, sleeping, all constitute that one single
process—yoga. So there are not merely 18 yogas. There are
innumerable yogas every moment. This is the great truth about you, about
each and every one of us.
May the grace of the Supreme
and the benedictions of revered and beloved Holy Master Gurudev Swami
Sivanandaji enable us to fully recognize this truth, fully assimilate this
truth, fully live in the light of this truth, and thus become the Truth. May
God bless us all!
Excerpts from:
Everything Is
Yoga by Swami Chidananda
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