The Synthesis of Yoga - 1

The nature essentially works out in presenting us complex things, which are in turn made out of a very simple elements in a fashion blind to our eyes. There is a cleary regularity in nature's all aspect if we know how to look into it. Complex things are continously broken apart into simpler matter as evolution continues. Nature and property of matter can be altered or changed either by combining them into complex things or dismantling them into simpler substances. A crude example can be a table, table is a complex material made out of wood and nails. Trees are cut, polished and weathered to get what is called as ply-wood, the nature of wood is different when its a tree and its completely different when it becomes ply wood .The same ply wood can be used to make cot or a almira or a table. Their utility varies with each version. This phenomenon is present in nature. Nature tries and tests everything as time passes by, with the ultimate aim of reaching perfection. This is what is termed as "Material Immortality" a very seemingly contradictory term coined by Sri Aurobindo. "To be constantly re-born is a condition of material immortality." Human beings are no expection to it.

Materials can obtain unimaginable capabilities by this continous action of synthesis and de-synthesis, which it would have appeared impossible looking at the face of it. This phenonmenon is termed as Yoga by our great ancient seers and saints. Yoga means continous evolution. Swami Vivekananda terms yoga as A Compressed Routine to attain evolution. Every form of yoga tries to do the same, evolution, mantling and dismantling or rather training in a unique way to attain those capabilities which seems impossible at the face of it. Hatha Yoga aims at training the various body parts, is it possible to bend ourselves backwards ? but a well trained hatha yoga expert can do the same. Raja Yoga is about training the mind to achieve greater level of activities, compared to the routine monotonous activity.

Nature has been doing the job of evolving its species in a continous manner, but Yoga would be a fast track to achieve the evolution in a quicker manner.

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