Yogacharya Kundan Kumar
Beset with natural and man-made calamities, we remain fearful and anxious, and our minds and bodies suffer on account of this.
The science of yoga is a powerful stream of knowledge. Radiant physical health, a serene mind, continuous spiritual uplift and ability for harmonious social living is experienced by yogic practitioners worldwide. Lack of harmonization with nature and control over one's mind-body complex, lack of faith in one's scriptures and failing in one's resolve to act cause problems. But there is no need for a Christian to become a Muslim, or a Hindu; a true Christian can follow the Bible, a Muslim the Qur'an, and a Hindu the Gita to attain success and peace and ultimately realize God.
Yoga does not interfere with one's faith and while following one's religion and faith everyone is free to take all help from yoga. It is scientific and rational, having a set of rules and KRIYAS, which blend in with all manner of faiths. A person given to drinking can benefit from the practice of yoga; he will experience changes in his personality and his reasoning and intellect will be purified enough to rid him of self-destructive habits.
Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences. For holistic healing and well being, a judicious combination of both should be adopted. Practicing yoga mechanically or taking Ayurvedic preparations without faith does not yield results. The practitioners' mental attitude, thoughts, his convictions, the method by which instructions are being imparted to him, his BHAKTI and obedience to the guru, all play a crucial role.
The tradition of yoga and Ayurveda is rich and has powerful methods and preparations which — when practiced and adopted under expert guidance — work wonderfully well with our human system. Both traditions have been handed down to us by divinity and its efficacy has been experienced since time immemorial.
The eight limbs of yoga — YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANA'YA-MA, PRATYAHAR, DHARNA, DHYANA AND SAMADHI—have so much to offer to ailing humanity. Similarly, the time-tested scientifically verifiable rules of Ayurveda under its various sections like the science of food, herbs and cow therapy, are invaluable for entire humankind.
Some of us are diseased in body or mind, some in both, and in different degrees. Some of us are confused about the existence of God. First we should try to make our mind-body complex healthy, only then, with this vehicle, we can attain happiness and gradually attain the goal of life i.e. God realization without which the highest happiness cannot come.
There is no ailment in the world, which will not benefit from the practice of yoga. Even if a person is breathing his last, by imbibing the spirit of yogic principles on the mental plane, he can leave his mortal body with total ease and contentment as declared by realized yogis: Death — thinking about which the world is terrified — brings bouts of ecstasy to me; I await that day which will bring me complete eternal bliss and glory.
Yogacharya Kundan Kumar
Beset with natural and man-made calamities, we remain fearful and anxious, and our minds and bodies suffer on account of this.
The science of yoga is a powerful stream of knowledge. Radiant physical health, a serene mind, continuous spiritual uplift and ability for harmonious social living is experienced by yogic practitioners worldwide. Lack of harmonization with nature and control over one's mind-body complex, lack of faith in one's scriptures and failing in one's resolve to act cause problems. But there is no need for a Christian to become a Muslim, or a Hindu; a true Christian can follow the Bible, a Muslim the Qur'an, and a Hindu the Gita to attain success and peace and ultimately realize God.
Yoga does not interfere with one's faith and while following one's religion and faith everyone is free to take all help from yoga. It is scientific and rational, having a set of rules and KRIYAS, which blend in with all manner of faiths. A person given to drinking can benefit from the practice of yoga; he will experience changes in his personality and his reasoning and intellect will be purified enough to rid him of self-destructive habits.
Yoga and Ayurveda are sister sciences. For holistic healing and well being, a judicious combination of both should be adopted. Practicing yoga mechanically or taking Ayurvedic preparations without faith does not yield results. The practitioners' mental attitude, thoughts, his convictions, the method by which instructions are being imparted to him, his BHAKTI and obedience to the guru, all play a crucial role.
The tradition of yoga and Ayurveda is rich and has powerful methods and preparations which — when practiced and adopted under expert guidance — work wonderfully well with our human system. Both traditions have been handed down to us by divinity and its efficacy has been experienced since time immemorial.
The eight limbs of yoga — YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANA'YA-MA, PRATYAHAR, DHARNA, DHYANA AND SAMADHI—have so much to offer to ailing humanity. Similarly, the time-tested scientifically verifiable rules of Ayurveda under its various sections like the science of food, herbs and cow therapy, are invaluable for entire humankind.
Some of us are diseased in body or mind, some in both, and in different degrees. Some of us are confused about the existence of God. First we should try to make our mind-body complex healthy, only then, with this vehicle, we can attain happiness and gradually attain the goal of life i.e. God realization without which the highest happiness cannot come.
There is no ailment in the world, which will not benefit from the practice of yoga. Even if a person is breathing his last, by imbibing the spirit of yogic principles on the mental plane, he can leave his mortal body with total ease and contentment as declared by realized yogis: Death — thinking about which the world is terrified — brings bouts of ecstasy to me; I await that day which will bring me complete eternal bliss and glory.