Has Yoga lost the true meaning. Looking at the people who are doing yoga to just keep their body streatched and toned. The people are not even seeing the place where it is to be done is not even kept clean. Doing Yoga on the streets is not really a good thing. And if you are one of the reader from the UNITED STATES or any of the entitled nations, you really need to read through this.
Yoga is not just a practice, it is a tool for the person to atone to get his or her soul or the inner energies in line with the energies of the universe or to get closer to the higher self. The word yoga basically means to be one with the ultimate power or for the people who haven't risen above religion, GOD. But you have to understand that the benefits of yoga are basically because you are one with the universe and the best things that the power of the universe can give is being recieved by you.
The thing is that these practices is more like body building or like professional rock climbing. Have you ever seen the best swimmers in the world get the gold medal in the Olympics and wanted to do the same by swimming in your back yard pool. Doing yoga just to get good health is the same thing. If you are not on a spiritual path of enlightenment then the possibilities of yoga for you is limited.
The practice of yoga was not created by the enlightened beings in ancient india for the sake of health or a good shape body. It was realised through meditation that these practics will help the person in a spiritual process. To balance the forces or the energies in the body to keep them in sync with the powers of the universe.
But if you see people in the western countries are putting up buddha statue, a statue of shiva tandav, or the laughing buddha. the picture of OM. this is just outright stupid. You don't know shit and are behaving like you have won the world. There are things like not calling the postures 'dog style'or the bent monkey pose.
The most important of all is the importance of proper yoga. There is a huge market for joint doctors thanks to the people you learnt the wrong yoga and are suffering. If you do WRONG YOGA THEN YOU WILL SUFFER. THESE PRACTICES ARE NOT JUST EXERCISES THESE ARE POWERFUL SPITITUAL TOOLS. PLEASE DO THEM RESPONSIBLY.
Yoga is not just a practice, it is a tool for the person to atone to get his or her soul or the inner energies in line with the energies of the universe or to get closer to the higher self. The word yoga basically means to be one with the ultimate power or for the people who haven't risen above religion, GOD. But you have to understand that the benefits of yoga are basically because you are one with the universe and the best things that the power of the universe can give is being recieved by you.
The thing is that these practices is more like body building or like professional rock climbing. Have you ever seen the best swimmers in the world get the gold medal in the Olympics and wanted to do the same by swimming in your back yard pool. Doing yoga just to get good health is the same thing. If you are not on a spiritual path of enlightenment then the possibilities of yoga for you is limited.
The practice of yoga was not created by the enlightened beings in ancient india for the sake of health or a good shape body. It was realised through meditation that these practics will help the person in a spiritual process. To balance the forces or the energies in the body to keep them in sync with the powers of the universe.
But if you see people in the western countries are putting up buddha statue, a statue of shiva tandav, or the laughing buddha. the picture of OM. this is just outright stupid. You don't know shit and are behaving like you have won the world. There are things like not calling the postures 'dog style'or the bent monkey pose.
The most important of all is the importance of proper yoga. There is a huge market for joint doctors thanks to the people you learnt the wrong yoga and are suffering. If you do WRONG YOGA THEN YOU WILL SUFFER. THESE PRACTICES ARE NOT JUST EXERCISES THESE ARE POWERFUL SPITITUAL TOOLS. PLEASE DO THEM RESPONSIBLY.