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Svadyaya for April 20, 2013
ASCENT TO THE DIVINE
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If you define yoga in the simplest term, it is the steady movement of
the individual soul towards the Supreme Soul. Yoga is a steady ascent to the
Divine. Yoga is not ‘knowing’, but it is for ‘being’ and ‘doing’. It is moving
towards the Eternal. Beloved Atman! Live your life in such a way that all the
movements and activities of your life may constitute an upward and Godward
process culminating in the fullest unfoldment of your Divine Consciousness.
Yoga transforms one’s lower nature into the Divine nature. Yoga means
ascending into purity. The destiny of the human being is evolution and we all
are progressing towards ultimate perfection, since we are all meant to realise
once again the innate Divinity. However, the normal course of human evolution
is very very slow, requiring many lives. The technique evolved to rapidly go
through this process of achieving fulfilment and perfection is named “Yoga”.
Yoga means an intensification of evolution within a single life span, or
perhaps even within just a few years.
Within you is the divine Essence, which is your true nature. You are not
merely this body-mind complex, the body is only a dwelling-house and the mind
is only an instrument through which you think and express yourself. The
intellect is an instrument to ponder over the purpose of life. Beyond these
three, you remain an eternal Spirit with Divinity inherent in you.
Yoga is attaining this Divinity, bliss and blessedness through union
with the Supreme Universal Spirit. Yoga is God-experience. Yoga is the
attainment of spiritual union with the Divine Source of your being. The
ultimate cause of all sorrow is that we have forgotten our eternal link with
the perennial source of infinite Joy, of never-ending Happiness. Bliss is in
the Eternal Reality. That alone is the source of true happiness. It is the
union with the Divine, which brings about a severance or a dissociation of
man’s union with pain, sorrow, suffering and miseries of mundane life. Yoga is
the ultimate way to succeed in this universal quest of man for liberating
oneself from all sorrow, pain and suffering, and entering into a state of absolute
Bliss and blessedness. And this can be brought about only by once again
restoring our lost link with Brahman, whom we refer to as God.
God Bless You!
Swami Chidananda
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