Inspired Living is Yoga

If one were to enter the sea for a bath, one must know the art of sea-bathing or else the incessant waves will play rough on the person and may even sweep him off his feet and drag him to a watery grave.But he who knows the art of saving himself by ducking beneath the mighty waves, or by riding over the lesser ones, alone can enjoy a sea-bath. To hope for all the waves to end, or to expect the waves not to trouble while one is in the sea, is to order the sea to be something other than itself for one’s convenience!This is exactly what a foolish man does in life. He expects life to be without waves, but life is ever full of waves. Pleasure and pain, gain and loss, conquest and defeat must arise in the waters of life or else it is complete stagnation. It is almost death.If life be thus a tossing, stormy sea at all times, and it should be so, then we, who have entered life, must know the art of living it, being unaffected either by the rising crests, or by the sinking hollows in it..Yoga is not a strange mystical process, secretly advised to by a few by mysterious rare group of Gurus, to be practised in the unknown dark caves of the Himalayas, living altogether a frightful life of unnatural privations. In the Gītā, the word ʻyogaʼ has been forever tamed and domesticated to be with all of us, serving us faithfully at all times in our life. To the Eastern sages, inspired living is the real godly destiny of man, when he lives in perfect unison with the Self within.A balanced life - wherein we live as an unaffected witness of even our own mind and intellect - is the realm of self-forgetfulness, where instead of becoming inefficient, our profession gathers a scintillating glow of a new dawn. This extra aura in any achievement is that which raises an ordinary success to an inspired achievement. The yogis of the ancient Hindu lore discovered a technique whereby the mind and the intellect could be consciously brought to a steadiness and poise. This technique is called ʻyogaʼ. The Hindus of the Vaidika period knew, practised and lived it. Hinduism has only one goal - the removal of man’s spiritual ignorance.

Inspired Living is Yoga

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