Yoga Teacher Training In Rishikesh. When the seer and the seen are dis-juncted or dissociated, Then it is
vairagya. But, before we proceed to know abhyasa and vairagya, let us seer and result of inadvertent
utilisation of the conjunction. Man has two goals by his side yoga or liberation-bhoga or bondage.
200 Hours Yoga Teacher Training In India. Yoga is to untie man with worldly experiences. The vaidika
terminology for these two goals is expressed as sreyas and preyas. Sreyas is pure bliss, happiness of the
soul and preyas is worldly enjoyment. The synonym for these two approaches of the human mind is recognised as
the path of nisreyas or beyond virtues and moral merits and abhyudaya or elevation, prosperity and happiness.
500 Hours Yoga Teacher Training In Rishikesh. As a thorn is removed by using another thorn-like instrument,
we need to use the vrtti-s themselves to remove the vrtti-s first of all, we have to sort out the vrtti-s.
The vrtti-s which are conducive to conjunction causing bondage have to be eradicated and the vrtti-s which
are conducive towards emancipation have to be adopted. And here lies the beauty of yoga.
Yoga Meditation
CITTA - CONSCIOUSNESS
Let us see the thorny patch on which we have to use the €yogic cutter' to remove and clear the thorns. One of
the Upanisada-s say,
Mana eva manusyanam karanam bandhamoksayoh ||
Man has been endowed with the greatest gift-the mind. However, most of the time this gift is not within our
control. Instead of man utilising the mind, the mind utilises man. When the mind utilises us, we are in
bondage and when we utilise the mind, we are liberated.300 hours yoga teacher training in Rishikesh. The mind
alone is the cause of bondage as well as liberation. This means that we have to learn how to user our mind
thoughtfully and for that reason we need to know what the mind is.
Small children are introduced to kindergarten as a first step in learning. Similarly, for a man, the mind is
his kindergarten or entrance to know the outer world or enter the inner world of his existence. The moment he
begins to enter the inner world, he finds layer, tier upon tier of the mind and he realises the unfathomable
depth of the mind.
Water is the same everywhere, yet water on the surface of the ocean differs from that of the ocean's
unfathomable depth as far as its appearance and flow is concerned. Similarly, the sky is the same everywhere,
but we only know the sky above our head. The rest of the sky is a vast unknown space beyond our vision. In
the same way, our inner body and inner mind too is as deep as the ocean and as vast as the sky.
The waves of the ocean are perceivable.
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