On June 21, the whole world is celebrating World Yoga Day and doing yoga. The whole world is considering these asanas as yoga, which is not true. The postures of yoga are not completely yoga. This is only one eighth part of the concept of yoga. Yoga means to join and join. Mind, body and soul i.e. inner being, body and deh. Adeha.. which is the form, is the soul. This world is made up of the combination of matter and consciousness. Root means dead, animate means living. Root is not alone. It is formed by the combination of five great elements. Water, Earth, Fire, Air and Sky. Consciousness is a flowing energy, which is the form of words. Which are cognitive, affective and functional triad. In the absence of consciousness, if anything remains, it is inertia, passivity, immobility.
There are eight parts of Ashtanga Yoga. The five limbs are Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana-bhajan and Samadhi. The first five limbs are Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama and Pratyahara. The remaining three limbs Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi are called internal practice. It is only when the external rituals are performed that maturity comes in the inner spiritual practice and the pace and rhythm blossom in it. Yama and Niyama represent modesty, forgiveness and penance. Yama means restraint, which has five parts. Non-violence, truth, asteya i.e. beyond desire for the substance of others, celibacy, and non-possessiveness. Similarly, rules i.e. discipline, which also have five types. Shaucha, contentment, austerity, svadhyaya i.e. Simran and Pranidhan i.e. offering and surrender. Surrender means to surrender devotionally to the Supreme Being.
Asana means keeping the body healthy is the practice of external stability. Pranayama is the practice of vitality. The name of the break of the movement of breathing is Pranayama. Acceptance of outside air is breathing. The outflow of inner air is inhalation. Its practice brings stability to the prana, which ends the restlessness of the inner mind. The name of the intermediate practice of pratyahara, pranasthyaya and mind-steadiness is ‘pratyahara’. Anti = adverse, diet = attitude.
When Prana is relatively calm by Pranayama, the outward movement of the mind naturally becomes minimal. And the senses become introverted beyond the external objects. Due to which the lamp of self-realization is ignited in the inner self. Its name is Pratyahara. The last three parts are an undertaking of inner peace. When the outward movement of the mind is stopped and the practitioner tries to become still by introverting. Then the name of the initial movement of this effort is dharana. Attaching oneself to the heart or the tip of the nostrils or a particular organ or on the external target is dharana. To hold is to hold.
Meditation-bhajan is the arrangement ahead of it. Meditation means staying there whenever you are. When knowledge moves in unison at one point in the inner self, it is called meditation. Bhajan is the process of linking and connecting with the word. In both the states of Dharana and Dhyana-Bhajan, the instinct is moving, it flows. The only difference between the two is that in dharana, from one instinct, the opposite attitude also manifests. But in meditation, only likeness flows, not dissimilarity.
Samadhi is the stage of maturing, that is, maturing of meditation. Samadhi means to merge, to merge, into the whole, into the perfect. and merge into the supreme consciousness and become the ultimate. When the samadhi chitta is manifested in the shape of a support, the external form of the living entity becomes irrelevant. And then only the support becomes illuminating. The inner word itself is resonant. The word that is your root. Existence. The soul exists. This condition is called samadhi. And after samadhi, there is an eruption of wisdom. That is the ultimate goal of yoga.