By yoga people think of meditation, asana, pranayama, asceticism, morality, worship etc. But yoga is much more comprehensive, deep and all-inclusive. Yoga in India has always striven to understand the deeper meaning of life, the creation and the creator. When we see the spiritual personalities like Sri Krishna or Shiva, the meaning and purpose of yoga is widened and becomes inclusive of life. Yoga is given to Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukshtra and Arjuna was asked to fight as a yogi. Yoga is a mighty path, it is not for weaklings. To run away from life because it is difficult or painful should not be the reason to do yoga. To get power, to be famous or to serve the humanity etc are not enough reason to do yoga. The yoga is done for the divine. Yoga should be done because we cannot do otherwise. We cannot be satisfied with an ordinary life as life demands some greater satisfaction that is to realize and manifest the Divine.
Recorded in Nainital in 201
Video and audio recordings of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Van Niwas, Nainital in May 2018.This talk takes up the period after...
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 50th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Study Circle Conference5th April 2021, Matrubhaban, Sri Aurobindo Marg, Cuttack, Odisha
There are laws of life and creation. There are different laws for different layers of consciousness like physical world has physical laws, so too...