yoga (19)

team up
with nature

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Thursday,February 21,2008:The Yoga
Sutras now are set to remove the mystification
of yoga by the =samadhi pada´s= nineteenth
sutra =bhava pratyayo videha prakritilayanam=.
That is generally explained as body less and
absorbed in nature also have =samadhi= by
their being just exposed by presence or appearance.
Those who believe in gods can identify them
as spirits and nature.For example the sutra
explains the unexplainable like the siberian bird´s
migration cycle or a tsunami.Yoga or harmony
of nature =bhava pratyayah= being is explained,
noticed among the body less and a part of the
nature.

It is then for the humans only yoga or harmonial
education required.Their success depends on
devotion,energy, memory knowledge obtained
by samadhi only. That means yoga sadhana is
simple systematic education.That explains the
success of extra ordinary people like Einstein that
they also underwent the discipline of devoted concentration.
The twentieth sutra has spelt them out =shraddha,
veerya,smriti, samadhi prajna purvaka itaresham=.
The human who has not undergone the discipline
of education by himself or with guidance remains
not tuned to nature.That is the problem because
the most of the humans do not think getting
properly educated is necessary.Forced they
undergo a routine of going to schools to belong
to ordinary human society to the extent identified.
For example Jews of Israel think they are the
only people, mullahs teach there are only Muslims
the rest do not deserve to live.Now even high
caste Indians tend to adopt these partial values.

Mr.I.K.Taimni writes about the sutra as follows:
=The interpretation of this 1-19 sutra has become
involved in confusion on account of the different
meanings associated with the words bhava,videha
prakritilaya, by different commentators.= Then he
says one should use common sense to get sense
out of it! Bhava means being that proved by appearance,
videha means without a body for individuation,
prakriti in the Samkhya, which is the philosophical
basis of Yoga shastra system material substance
sheltering the individual consciousness.Submerged
in prakriti is prakritilaya like birds,animals,rocks,
rivers etc.The sutra says their daily operation is justified
by their being. Not so it is for human behaviour.
Human behaviour is developed by discipline.There
is no mystery now about it.Vyasa and Shankara mean
videha as godly being to be seen and believed and the
rest of the nature is absorbed in the prakriti
meaning the part and parcel of the nature itself.
The both categories are exempted from yoga
discipline. Humans however being humans are
obliged to undergo the discipline of yoga,
education.Vyasa calls this education:= the means=
with eight limbs,namely yama, niyama, asana,
pranayama,pratyahara,dharana,dhyana and finally
samadhi.There is no way to avoid.Education is
continuous and unending for an invidual as long
he dwels in a body.(end)
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