Goal of Yoga practice - Increase physical power, mind power, and brain
power to attain unity in one’s state of being.
While the practice of yoga gives many physical benefits, the
ultimate goal is to attain clarity in the mind so we can take right action that
creates positive karma for oneself and others, so we can leave this physical
world with no regret and guilt when the time comes. The clarity required to take right action
means being able to see oneself as one really is and the world as it really is.
I found myself in conflict with others
frequently even after practicing yoga for more than 15 years, however, the clarity
finally came to me only when I could see that I was equally blind as everyone
else around me. I spent many years
doing the “right” thing, I thought…, yes, I was always right and so others had
to be wrong and I made sure that I let them know what was wrong with their view
or the way they were, and as a result, this had created a lot of pain in me and
others. Through these pains, however, I have
learned to see the message that I am experiencing being blind in seeing myself as I really am and that
it is time to take action to train the body to let it go in recovering the lost unity, the Oneness of all beings. And from this state of being, I could see
more clearly what my next action needed to be in order to create a better world for myself
and others. Because I saw that the root of
righteousness is violence, I learned that I must have hurt many in my old way of
being all these years and now I see that I must heal, I choose to heal all that I come across and hurt no one
no more.
