Balance your life with Yoga!
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etter late than never, the UNO has
finally green-signaled to June 21 as the World Yoga Day. This is a good thing.
This Day is expected to contribute significantly to the expansion of various
dimensions of Yoga throughout the globe.
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Nepal is the land of wonders. Great
many souls have lived here and purged this land—from Janak and Buddha—to many
Saints like Gorakhnath, Nagarjuna and Shivapuri. Hence, the World Yoga Day
naturally means much to us Nepalese. This can be the most suitable way to heal
the wounds and get their lives back to normal with physical and mental
well-being affected by April 25 Earthquake.
Many people still don’t have a clear
understanding of what Yoga is all about. In fact, Yoga is a “Super-science”, or
say the “Universal Science”. It plays a crucial role so as to bring about
peace, humanity, brotherhood, and worldwide cooperation. No doubt that the
physical/material development has reached the apex, but there’s still fear
among people; they are uncomfortable with their life; they are deprived of
inner peace. People today, like they always had been, want to be at comfort and
they want peace and love. The only way out to channel-in this positive energy
in life is through Yoga and Meditation.
Yoga maintains balance in person’s body, thoughts, and feelings, thus
leading to the Integrated Personality Development. Therefore, Yoga is the
branch of knowledge that guides us to lead our life as a complete human being.
The world today is divided by the
walls of religions. The instances of religious-intolerance are leading the
society towards conflict, violence, and war. In this context where the humanity
is eroding, Yoga plays the central role in strengthening the feeling of
brotherhood in the world. Irrespective of the religion you follow and the
prejudice that you hold, everyone is free to practice Yoga, Pranayanm, and
Meditation. Through this we can
experience the abstract and sophisticated “High-matter” within ourselves. Yoga
is an open-science free to all. There’s no any condition to practice it. Yoga
and meditation is the only bridge that can bring together the world divided
into pieces in the name of ethnicity, religions, regional conflicts, wars, and
misunderstandings.
In order to make their work even
more productive and energetic, the professionals like doctors, engineers,
teachers, officers, journalists, and Army and Police can resort to Yoga without
second-guessing. This enhances their work performance and efficiency too. It
should also be applied in schools, colleges, and various other professional
institutions through simplification. This can contribute to the building of
peaceful and prosperous societies through the generation of energetic,
productive and optimistic human resources.
This is the age of “Cutting and
Science Technology”. The materialistic progress is heading towards climax as a
result of miraculous advancement and achievements in Science and Technology.
But this development has come at price—there is a dark side to it. In order to
direct the scientific developments in the right direction, it calls for the
cooperative balance between materialism and spirituality so that people can
live a healthy life. But without the right practice of Yoga, Meditation and
Pranayam, healthy life is a forbidden fruit. Albert Einstein must have realized
the truth that thus he said, “Science and Spirituality are complementary to
each other. Spiritualism without science is blind; science without spiritualism
is crippled.”
Knowledge speaks; wisdom listens.
Yielding to the lack of prudent direction of scientific and technological
development, the human civilization has already faced the two great inhumane
World Wars. God knows how many wars will take place in future. In relation to
this, Yoga can act as liaison to coordinate the knowledge of science and
spirituality so as to make this world a better place to live in. Therefore, the
relevancy of Yoga is evergreen like it was yesterday, and that will continue in
future too.
Mankind has brutally raped the
nature. Nothing is exception to pollution. The water we drink, the food we eat,
the air we breathe, the sun light we absorb… everything! When people consume
these materials, they yield to bad physical and mental health. Weak physique,
negative thoughts and feelings begin to take over. Consequently, the person
will lose his or her balance in life which paves the way for stress,
schizophrenia, and depression. The five physical constituents of life, viz.
Earth, water, air, fire, and… are affected by the reckless human activities
which have caused the problems in societies. In this plight, Yoga, Meditation,
and Pranayam can be the most suitable way to purge the society from all its
sufferings.
Nepalese society is still in
transitional phase, and the Earthquake of April 25 has added to it. Fear still
lingers here. Besides Kathmandu valley, massive loss of lives and properties
has been accounted in Sindupalchowk, Dolakha, Gorkha, Dhading, Nuwakot, and
other districts. The people there have to face the tragic loss of their
relatives’ lives. They are worried about how they will face the ‘rainy’ days to
come, literally. Mere distribution of relief materials doesn’t do much than
sustaining their lives. Living is different from survival. In this context,
Yoga and meditation can be applied to reduce the mental stress in people. It’s
necessary to teach them the art of coping with the disasters, and the art of
living so that their confidence can be elevated that enables them to do
something significant for their future generations.
Journalism—the profession I am in—is
a very demanding one. Like journalism, there are several other ones where one
needs to work day and nights. Such working situations can impact on the
person’s daily life. That’s why I feel that Yoga and Meditation is a powerful
weapon to cut through everyday challenges in life. Ever since 2000 when I first
participated in Bipashyana Meditation 10-days seminar, I have been constantly
practicing meditation till date. I don’t think there is any other better and
effective alternative than Meditation to make our daily life balanced,
peaceful, creative, comfortable, and stress-free.
This World Yoga Day can be a good
start for everyone to start a new healthy life by detoxifying this obviously
intoxicated body of ours and go through life-long mental-spiritual journey. So
now come on, let’s make a resolution today to allocate at least 30 minute every
morning and evening for Yoga, Meditation and Pranayam and start the journey of
Yoga.
It’s okay to be Smart and Healthy.
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