Hare Krishna 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🪷
Yoga is very popular term in recent times.
Everyone wants to do some or other form of yoga.
People think that yoga is for some physical or mental well being.
They think it gives you physical strength, calmness, mental clarity & you become more productive.
But no one actually knows what is yoga??
What is purpose of yoga ??
How to perform yoga for present age ??
Bhagavad Gita 6.23 defines yoga as :-
taṁ vidyād duḥkha-saṁyoga-
viyogaṁ yoga-saṁjñitam
This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact.
So yoga is “Dukh Sanyog Viyog”
As this material life is Dukh Sanyog as we suffer three fold miseries of Adhyatmik, Adhibhautik & Adhidaivik & four fold miseries of birth,death,disease & old age due to material contamination.
So Yoga is Viyog of this Dukh Sanyog means if we are free from this material contamination & miseries that is called Yoga in real sense.
Purpose of yoga is to meditate upon supreme personality of Godhead, Krishna who is present in everyone’s heart as supersoul.
So by following eight fold yoga system of Yam, Niyam, Aasan, Pranayam, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana & Samadhi one ultimately have to reach samadhi stage in which one has to meditate upon supersoul within one’s heart.
But this astanga yoga is very difficult to perform in present age of kali.
People in age of Kaliyug have flickering mind, short memory & short lifespan & coflicts everywhere.
So one cannot practice this astanga yoga in Kaliyug.
Even Arjuna in dwapara yug rejected it saying it’s too difficult to perform because of flickering mind.
So what should we do then??
For Kali yug process recommended is of Harinam Sankirtan that is chanting holy name of Krishna by Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
So we can chant & hear this Hare Krishna MahaMantra attentively :-
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Ram Hare Ram
Ram Ram Hare Hare
This is only way recommended in sastra :-
Harer Nam Harer Nam Harer Nam Eva kevalam
Kalau nasty eva nasty eva nastir gatir anyatha
“ ‘In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.’ ”
Hare Krishna 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🪷