Authentic Yoga Tradition

1. Enough is not enough: A New Paradigm of Living for teens

EIE is I feel is one few best websites educating every strata of society to prevent kids, and young to fall prey to predators. No doubt education, information technology bigwigs and enforcement are participating collectively to save young from pollution of sexual abuses, but still the problems is increasing at an alarming rate unabated. America is a country where freedom is in the blood of every being. And when we talk about young, growing kids, this freedom is more intense and obsessed. However, freedom comes always with responsibility. While talking about responsibility, EIE is hardly doing anything for young. There is no teaching, education and training for young ones who fall prey to these people. Perhaps, we have taken for granted that freedom for expression is allowed to teens while adults should be controlled by law and punished.

The problem of sex, predators, and constant exposure of the society which encourages sexual explicit materials in all possible manners is not undirected by multifaceted. The effect of society and its trends constantly expose younger generation towards sex and sexual materials. Teen having highly receptive mind, undeveloped emotions, and left with modern gadgets are always prone to these evils of society. Further Education to parents, industry and enforcement has little influence upon virgin minds that are growing and step into adventure considering freedom as their right. Enforcement plays little or no role where two parties agree –predator and teen agree to have sex, without any online contacts. That is where, incest comes into society.

America is a wonderful country where freedom is fragrance of all people, responsibility should become breath in order breathes the fragrance at all time but within one’s capacity. Enforcement comes where freedom and responsibility do not go together but oppose each other. Predators are the product of same society where we want them to be removed completely. Teen sex is becoming a reality in the same society where we want them to control. Is society responsible for all the evils? And if we answer yes, them we are the products of society. Whatever reflects within, manifests outside in society and becomes a problem. In reality social problem is an individual problem. An individual first creates or enters into problem, so that it becomes a social problem. A vicious circle of sex is present at same level, qualitatively if not quantitatively in teens, young, old and both genders. This vicious circle needs to address seriously in order to break this evil from society. And in order dissolve or minimize or sublimate this problem of sex, in sexually exposed society , where freedom is key to life, is very difficult task if not impossible work.

What is required is awaken to higher level of awareness. This higher level of awareness generally come by experience as people say that wisdom comes by experience. This wisdom sublimates the sexual urge ad directs the same energy to other creative pursuits. The effective if not permanent solution lies in discovering creative centers within every child who goes to school. A training program supported by many well designed practices should become mandatory in all schools so that every child learns it, experiments it and experiences change of consciousness. This can be done by Authentic Yoga (eternal tradition). Authentic yoga aims at change in consciousness, thereby change in mental consciousness, and awakening of essential traits like Love, energy, enhanced Awareness and Peace (LEAP). The strategy of LEAP which I call it , will work effectively in curbing this crime effectively. Authentic Yoga aims at change in consciousness so that it changes the very consciousness which subordinates the demands of sex at such an early age. The practices are simple which includes few physical, mental, emotional practices , aimed at changing the Paradigm of Living, i.e. living, moving and acting in creativity, progress, Love, Energy, awareness and Peace(LEAP) will bring about a tremendous transformation in lives of our future young schools students. America is such a great country where there is no end to any experimentation. Here experimentation and innovations are buzz words and breaths of society. However, these experiments had been done in ancient India, during Vedic period with great degree of success. It is sad story that the same is not practiced in India but if America introduces the practices in every schools from the age of 10, 8 years of schooling would be enough to prepare a strong very strong ground and will change the very attitude of teens and they will never resort to such practices. While teaching and conducting classes for thousands of children in India, I realized that an integral education should be given to every child, where subjective and objective departments are well taken care off. The objective areas are well taken care of by educational institutions in America but subjective dimensions have been neglected, which resulted into lopsided development of two hemispheres of brain. Reasons at the cost of love, division at the cost synthesis have been watchwords during the last 6 decades. But now, society needs a paradigm shift, where integration, synthetic and holistic view should replace the paradigms of conflicts and confusions amongst teens. Enough is not enough yet as our efforts should discover a new direction , a new approach to solve this menace which is increasing at an alarming rate in our American society.

(Acharya Girish Jha is a Guide, Guru and Mentor of Yoga, has taught to over 60,000 people all around the world, and now has come to America on O-1 Visa, granted to person with extraordinary ability in his field. He aspires to introduce Yoga, Science and Spirituality as New Paradigm of Living (NPL) aimed at conscious evolution and transformation. He is here in New Jersey, for teaching authentic Yoga combining modern science and spirituality, freeing this ancient eternal tradition from all hypocrisy, mysticism, rites and rituals. He can be contacted by email avadhootji@gmail.com and website www.shreyasyoga.com )

3. Life – a journey to spirituality begins with unusual experience in life

An unusual experience after the death of mother when I could not utter a single word for more than 15 days started a spiritual journey of which I was neither conscious nor aware of what is happening at that time. But I could reflect upon past and conclude that what ever happened brought transformation in life as I started reading books on spirituality, began going to temples, and something within always pushed me towards divine and divine alone. I could recall that divine became one of the most important thing in my life as I used to sleep, walk and talk all about divine. Those days were very immature but my mind claimed that if I know divine by heart and head and always avoided people having no faith in divine. Simultaneously,   reasoning mind used to reflect upon how people used to pray and worship god in temples, mosques, church and monasteries. I used to look at my father who used to devote 2 hours daily on worshipping Goddess Durga (one of female goddesses) but enter into confusion when he used to loose his temper and beat all his children. He was repeating mantra, prayer loudly and claimed that he is the only theist in his family , followed very strict discipline in eating and wearing clothes. His eating and wearing, remembering and chanting of couplets , performing daily rituals and rites were known as being very religious and spiritual both. But reason never supported any of his arguments and soon I became a rebellion but never lost faith in divine. Perhaps, in those days, I believed that only way to search divine is to discover him within, feel his presence within and bring him down into body, life and mind. I used to enter into, perhaps, which, I may term as meditation, (as I never learnt meditation from nay body until then). That meditation brought an experience of transcendence as there is total forgetfulness of body, life and mind but still I could experience life beyond all of them. I used to lie on floor for five hours without any movement and still I could experience deep calm, peace and love flowing out of body and mind. Later, when I used to talk with people, especially friends, they used to make mockery of me and call me as joker. Many of my friends used to say that I have gone mental due to problems I faced in my family, especially with my father. But what always fascinated me in those days was experience of deep calm and peace that manifested after lying down for five hours and many a times that calm and peace remained with me for days together. There was something of those experiences which always guided my future life.

1.      Life of a child – experiment, adventure and curiosity 

I only remember those days only when I used to be scared of my father but always loved my mother. Father used to become angry over small issues and slap on face even on minute mistakes. The fear that I inherited about my   father remained until I went to collage. My mother died when I was only 15. There were many impressions implanted by mother like reciting prayers from texts and chanting couplets from Bhagvad Gita-one of the oldest and most famous scriptures in India.

I always loved to recite prayers and chanting from Bhagvad Gita until the death of mother. A very strong rebellion mind took birth just after the death of mother, but keep quite for more than 3 years. At the demise of my mother, something happened looking at dead body of mother. I stopped speaking; rather, I could not speak even when I tried for many days. Many people used to talk that I had become mad and nothing can cure me. Others spoke about shock I got because of mother’s death.  But I had to problem not speaking at all during that time and used to listen to all comments and remarks made by relations, father and strangers who gathered at funeral of my mother. I do not know what was laughing inside me even at the time of death, while tears in my eyes. There was something which I could even know now that was separate from the body and mind. Mind felt strong loss of mother but something within laughed at mind. This was strange experience I had had during that time, when I could not utter a word for more than 15 days. This event was perhaps the beginning of my spiritual life which I did   realize after the age of 21. My father instead of being worried always had been sarcastic about my not speaking and making mockery of my being quiet. This appeared very tough time outwardly but I enjoyed that period. Being a child, I never realized what it means by stopping speaking altogether.

After 15 days, suddenly, I started speaking and people around me specially brother became angry and asked me not to act like this in future. I did not understand what he was saying to me and heard him very quietly. Everything changed which I could only know after meeting my master more than 11 years after. During the period between 15 to 26 years, I passed through many phases of material life, tribulations, afflictions and events and incidents which every man passes through but manifestation that took place only after I met my Gurudev, Swami Laxman Das Avadhootji, – a living legend, Laughing Saint and Great Himalayan Master………………..GJ………………to be continued

1. Yoga: Joy of Conscious Living (JOCL)

Life is in flux. It is changing constantly and does not wait for us in any condition whatsoever. Life is like a river whose two banks are birth and death. Life manifests in Time, Space and Causation and the same life even does not leave them and divide all three into many divisions. These divisions become very important to all of us which we term as birth, growth, pain, pleasures, success, failures and so on. Life manifests itself in dualities like pain/pleasure, sorrow/happiness, low/high, childhood/youth/old age, and so on and later life express and all dualities.

Living transcends all divisions and dualities of life. Living moves on , goes on while life seems to stop us at different stoppages which we call and terms by many names like anxiety, anger, happiness, agitation, health, disease, achievements etc. living continues while life moves from past, does not care for present and worries about future.

When we become aware of living as whole, we experience something different from dualities and what life offered in parts. Living consciously is an extraordinary thing and moment. Living consciously is a movement into unknown from the field of known. The known is what life had experienced and consciously living is what one transcends it. Philosophers term it living in present moment, living from moment to moment and living beyond dualities and conflicts. This conscious living is virgin, pure, immutable, and infinite and the most beautiful of anything and everything we have had in the past. It is full of Truth, Pure Awareness, Absolute Knowledge, Bliss and eternal love. Once it is there in conscious living, it points to eternity. In this eternity, all sufferings and problems dissolves, and dualities and conflicts melt away and one discovers within a presence, a state or something which can not be expressed is what philosophers call it Absolute, Eastern wisdom calls it as Brahman and is also known as Real Self. In this pregnant state, one begins to move naturally from falsehood to truth, from ignorance to knowledge and from mortality to immortality. Conscious living is the most simple, humble, unitive way of living which people made it so complex, so difficult by polluting it with rites, rituals, mysticism etc.

This conscious living manifests in joy that turns into bliss. When one knows consciously the joy and bliss which has not cause outside, it is the Real Self that moves in front from deep inside and start acting consciously upon Body, life and mind. Truth, Bliss, Knowledge and Love all fills in Body, life and mind including is termed as Joy of Conscious Living (JOCL). This JOCL is Yoga. It is authentic Yoga that belongs to eternal tradition.

Do not stop until you discover this JOCL at every moment, everywhere in life and universe. Move and march forward until you reach the state of JOCL. Do not be satiated until you get a glimpse of it within. Aspire and inspire for one and only one REAL SELF who is made of TRUTH, PURE AWARENESS, ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE, and BLISS AND ETERNAL LOVE.

Let you follow the eternal tradition –authentic yoga that lift you up in joy of conscious living ..GJ…………………..to be continued

1. Yoga: Joy of Conscious Living (JOCL)

Life is in flux. It is changing constantly and does not wait for us in any condition whatsoever. Life is like a river whose two banks are birth and death. Life manifests in Time, Space and Causation and the same life even does not leave them and divide all three into many divisions. These divisions become very important to all of us which we term as birth, growth, pain, pleasures, success, failures and so on. Life manifests itself in dualities like pain/pleasure, sorrow/happiness, low/high, childhood/youth/old age, and so on and later life express and all dualities.

Living transcends all divisions and dualities of life. Living moves on , goes on while life seems to stop us at different stoppages which we call and terms by many names like anxiety, anger, happiness, agitation, health, disease, achievements etc. living continues while life moves from past, does not care for present and worries about future.

When we become aware of living as whole, we experience something different from dualities and what life offered in parts. Living consciously is an extraordinary thing and moment. Living consciously is a movement into unknown from the field of known. The known is what life had experienced and consciously living is what one transcends it. Philosophers term it living in present moment, living from moment to moment and living beyond dualities and conflicts. This conscious living is virgin, pure, immutable, and infinite and the most beautiful of anything and everything we have had in the past. It is full of Truth, Pure Awareness, Absolute Knowledge, Bliss and eternal love. Once it is there in conscious living, it points to eternity. In this eternity, all sufferings and problems dissolves, and dualities and conflicts melt away and one discovers within a presence, a state or something which can not be expressed is what philosophers call it Absolute, Eastern wisdom calls it as Brahman and is also known as Real Self. In this pregnant state, one begins to move naturally from falsehood to truth, from ignorance to knowledge and from mortality to immortality. Conscious living is the most simple, humble, unitive way of living which people made it so complex, so difficult by polluting it with rites, rituals, mysticism etc.

This conscious living manifests in joy that turns into bliss. When one knows consciously the joy and bliss which has not cause outside, it is the Real Self that moves in front from deep inside and start acting consciously upon Body, life and mind. Truth, Bliss, Knowledge and Love all fills in Body, life and mind including is termed as Joy of Conscious Living (JOCL). This JOCL is Yoga. It is authentic Yoga that belongs to eternal tradition.

Do not stop until you discover this JOCL at every moment, everywhere in life and universe. Move and march forward until you reach the state of JOCL. Do not be satiated until you get a glimpse of it within. Aspire and inspire for one and only one REAL SELF who is made of TRUTH, PURE AWARENESS, ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE, and BLISS AND ETERNAL LOVE.

Let you follow the eternal tradition –authentic yoga that lift you up in joy of conscious living ..GJ…………………..to be continued

YOGA A UNIVERSAL SCIENCE

Yoga is more a spiritual science than a more religious one. It offers ways to the travelers of all sects and religions that are making their effort to read the inner way to the city of divine. Yoga can serve as the best tool to reach and realize divine within all of us while remaining and living within one’s cult, dogma, belief etc. It represents neither any sect nor a particular group but helps us to understand intellectually and to practice in order to reach and realize one and only one divine element within all of us for dwelling in the state of consciousness or Reality, which is infinite, eternal, universal and transcendent. Yoga takes care of the material, universal and transcendental existence. It inspires to purify and understand the material; guides to comprehend the universal and realize the transcendental, which is basis of everything that this universe contains.

Yoga considers every individual as a unique and special entity in the earthly existence and calls him to understand his relationship with the vast universe (Prakriti) outside in order to reality. Yoga, being an experiential science stresses upon living a yogic life in order to bring miraculous transformation in one’s life at all levels of one’s existence viz social, physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels.

WHAT LIFE MEANT TO US ?

Yoga begins with developing an understanding about life, its miseries problems, successes, failures, motives etc. The life of an ordinary human being is a pleasure seeking life dominated by animal instincts of food, sleep, sex and security or by prestige, recognition etc. Unconsciously directed by greed, anger, ego, attractions and repulsions. Many of us in our daily chore include prayer; worship and also yoga all more mechanical and concentrated on inner desires, needs and demands. We all concentrate on one question as how to live happily peacefully and successfully with more and more possessions at our disposal. We labor hard in the pursuit of pleasure but always remain one-step behind every time, In order to embarrass that, we again fall into mechanical urge for attaining that pleasure which does not appear to us as a mirage. The gross mind scattered in the external world of name and form, identifies with a particular goal leading to material happiness, laboring for pleasure within by seeking one thing or other always in this universe, appears never to be satiated with its achievements nor frustrated with failures but continue to aspire. This state or life what we call ourselves.

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