SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 26 MARCH

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SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 26 MARCH

YOGA IS ETERNAL LIFE

 

 

Yoga is a perfect and practical system of self-culture. Yoga is an

exact science, it aims at the harmonious development of the body, the

mind and the soul.

 

Yoga is the turning away of the senses from the objective universe

and concentrating it on the mind within. Yoga is eternal life in the

spirit.

 

Yoga aims at controlling the mind and its modifications. The path of

yoga is an inner path, whose gateway is your heart.

 

Yoga is the discipline of the mind, the senses and the physical body.

It helps to control and co-ordinate the subtle forces within the body.

 

Yoga brings perfection, peace and everlasting happiness. Yoga helps

you in your business and also in your daily life. Through yoga you

can have a calm mind and a peaceful sleep.

 

Through yoga you can also have increased energy, vigour, vitality,

longevity and a high standard of health. Yoga transmutes your animal

nature into divine nature. It raises you to the pinnacle of divine

glory and splendour.

 

The practice of yoga will help you to control your emotions and

passions. It will give you the power to resist temptations and to

remove disturbing elements from the mind.

 

Yoga enables you to keep a balanced mind always. It removes fatigue.

It confers on you serenity, calmness, and wonderful concentration. It

will enable you to hold communion with the Lord and thus attain self-

realisation.

 

If you want to attain success in yoga you will have to abandon all

worldly enjoyments. You will have to practise tapas, (austerity) and

brahmacarya (celibacy).

 

To curb the mind you have to use intelligent and judicious methods -

because, if you use force, the mind becomes more turbulent and

mischievous. Those who try to control the mind by force are like

those who endeavour to bind a furious elephant with a silken thread.