ANANDA YOGA

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prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

ANANDA YOGA

 

By Paramahamsa Nithyananda

 

 

Ananda means bliss. It is not joy. Ananda is beyond joy. Joy is what

you feel through your senses, based on an outer object – music, a

fragrance, a beautiful sight, physical touch and so on. When you feel

joy without sensory inputs, not even inputs of forms of God, just

from your inner core – your soul, it is Ananda – bliss!

 

Yoga literally means union: the union of the self with the divine,

union with the cosmic power. It is cessation of the mind, to take it

beyond the mind, to be one with the existence. The blissful technique

to unite you with the divine is ananda yoga. Here, the very path the

very travel is ecstasy. It is not something you find at the end, you

find it all along the way.

 

The very living is bliss when you go without a goal; only for the

purpose of enjoying the path. You cannot look at God as a goal. You

cannot run towards God. In the inner world the logic is very

different. Goals are not achieved by running towards them. Zen

masters say: When you stop seeking you will find it. Seeking makes

you tense; it makes you miss your purpose.

 

Just look at all your guilt, mistakes, and failures; just look with

deep acceptance.

Even if you cannot accept, accept that you cannot accept. You will

then relax; guilt will drop from your mind. If your mind is tense,

it can never stop. Only when you relax it you can cease.

You have to stop being goal-oriented. If you accept what you are,

what is, the mind will lose its roots. Mind and bliss cannot stay

together. When mind is, bliss is not. It is either mind or bliss. So

drop your mind and simply decide to walk on the path of ecstasy!

(Source: The Economic Times)