Yoga

Yoga and Meditation

The mind can be ones best friend and worst enemy. Through therapies of yoga and meditation we can learn how to tap its inner potential, still the mental agitation strengthen our power of concentration. With proper yogic postures several diseases are cured in this center.

Yoga is an integral part of 'Sanathana Dharma' and Philosophy of India. Orginaly, it was present cryptically in the stanzas of Vedas. Its basic Philosophy is that Almighty. God is full of richness and creatures have nothing, but desires. Craving and striving for the absent objects is a natural instinct of every living being. So he makes every efforts to acquire the things of his desires. But Almighty God is the treasure of all these things. Hence, a desire naturally arises in the heart of human beings to reach God, to see him and to mingle with him in order to achieve Supreme Joy. The same desire is known with different names like Worship, Devotion or Yoga. Stay of every creature is very brief on Earth. Eternity of life is assured in the unification with God. Yoga is such unification.

Mantra Yoga, Hata Yoga, Haya Yoga and Raja yoga are the four part of Yoga. Of them Raja Yoga is most refined. Continues effort of our great and learned Sages have refined the ways to practice Yoga. Sage Pathanjaly was one of them. Acording to the Sage Pathanjaly, 'the successful control of unstable mind is Yoga'. Mind has five stages- Chhipta, Moorh, Vikshiptha, Ekaagra and Nirudda . Last two stages of these five distinguish Yoga. Yoga helps common as well as learned people to unify with the Supreme Soul. In fact Yoga helps to attain a healthy body, a sound mind and a delighted Spirit. Last three part of Yoga is contemplation, meditation and reconciliation. Contemplation involves concentration of conscience around navel tip of the nose or heart. With the perfection of contemplation one's conscience immediately attains a state of meditation. The process that begins with contemplation culminates in reconciliation. According to Pathanjaly, 'Yoga complete restraining of all the tendencies and unifying the mind and Soul with That Supreme Soul is ultimate state of Yoga. This condition marks the true state of reconciliation.

     Regular practice of yoga and Pranayama will play a major role in the prevention of heart attack and in the rehabilitation of those who have suffered the attack once, according to noted Cardiologist. Yoga can arrest brain degeneration. One of the most important cause for the degeneration of the brain is the aging person's reluctance to taken a new challenges to keep the brain function active and at optimum level according to neurosurgeon Dr. B. Ramamurthy. He said that just as any organ needed exercise to remain strong, the brain also needed to be given new challenges a new interests to prevent its degeneration. Yoga therapy has been found very effective in the treatment of mental retardation.